You're on! Hello again - and you're on! Might have to wait for New Year's Eve's Eve for the cleriac, unuless you can make it up here earlier... have a great time, love, Mon
"Hostal" is Spanish for "hostel" Yeah, thanks Mon, my sentiments exactly. And, what is more, all the signs round here say "hostal" so my father's contribution is just a demonstration of his unworldliness. I'm not standing for this patriarchal bullying anymore (though I have checked all the spellings I was unsure of in this email).
I'll have two notebooks, a pack of ten plastic pencils with rubbers (black and neon not the other colours), and a tub of celeriac with mayonnaise, please. Enjoy the holiday...
Spelling and the Intermarche Hi - I have really enjoyed your blog, having been a passive reader of your adventures, but am now fired up to write in defense of bad spelling. As a renowned bad speller who has been persecuted for it since early childhood I would like to support the individuality expressed by a creative approach to spelling - do we really want to be cloned adherants of an outmoded system?? Also, on a separate subject, we are off to the Intermarche in a week or so - should we secure a writing pad for you? Orders taken. Lots of love, Mon
I know, it´s been getting a bit ridiculous with the spelling. I might actually start proof-reading. You weren´t the first to point out cemetery, and you´ll notice I´ve actually edited it. One day, when I´m waiting for a plane or something, I´m going to go through the whole thing for however many hours it takes and try and get as many words right as possible. Sorry for being a bad daughter.
I can go if you like just let me know the address and i'll get there over the weekend.
Donegal will always be waiting for your return liz, though i'm sure the similarities are not so strong.
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spelling It's such a huge relief that, after so many instances of "hostal", we at last get "Mr Hostel man". (Fathers are allowed to be pedantic - and patronising to their offspring.) The content and style are brilliant but I must buy you a good dictionary. And I just can't go without saying "it's cemetery". I feel better now.
hola muchacho grande, mi nombre es liz y puedo tirar a bolas del pong del silbido de bala de
mis pedacitos groseros
another classic...maybe not to be used near children
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some spanish for you to try tengo pechos muy grandes y le encuentro muy atractivo, voluntad usted tiene por favor mi Sr. bar man de los bebés. This phrase may come in useful liz, found it on the internet, try it our and let us know the response,
loving the journals, keep them coming!
ruthie
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There was a writer called Jane Austin, affectionately known as "Calamity Jane". She was a 19th-century Texan author, frontierswoman, and proto-feminist. Unfortunately, I´m not familiar enough with her work to provide reliable quotations. Now, had you wanted Jane Austen, I could have helped you out...
But who am I to talk?! I´ve read what I´ve written: didn´t they have dictionaries/teachers at my school!?
So it will have to be travelling people. Are stories about people you´re never going to meet boring? OK, well, last night I met a Chris (US) and a Clara (Netherlands) for a drink at 9. I was on the Caipirinas, Steve the cuba libras and Clara the tea (yeah, just normal tea). We went to a bar we expected to be a place for a quiet nightcap but it was more like a small nightclub full of v young Ecuadorians and had a bit of a dance before going home at two. This is one end of a fairly large group of people all at the same language school (not mine). Is this at all interesting?
Sounds like you can speak spanish already, if you can understand your hostal guy. I consider myself pretty good at spanish too, managing to survive a weekend in barcalona with only a few spanish words such as vino blanco, vino tinto, cerveza. Its amazing how the heart always gets what it wants. Tell us more about your new friends, nationalities etc pls (are we allowed to use this thing to make requests) or recite some more austin. xx
just made it thru the journal - good effort! enjoy watching the footie ......and good luck being a mentalist - learning verbs at 7.30 in the moring def qualifies you!
You`re not off the hook yet, Maria, and won`t be till September. Why, look, since you posted that comment I`ve already published another entry. Perhaps you need to get broadband installed at home. Let`s face it, it`s worth it. (Get saving for Thailand while you`re at it, too.)
Hello Just thought I'd let you know that I've finally made it to the end of your journal. I know its taken a shockingly long time but been reading it in snatched moments before work and at lunch time. Glad you're doing well, I've been letting out a few chuckles at my desk. No need to be shy, whats's the worst that can happen, someone doesn't want to talk to you? Their loss, losers. xx
snort snort have to stop reading this at work as snorting with laughter into my keyboard really isn't going to get me a promotion and lets face it - it really isn't attractive...
My mate Nikki is heading your way v soon (email nikki_hancock@hotmail.com) so maybe you will bump into each other....
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Mongos, yeah, seemed a real mix of people. Bolivians and traveller types, and it was absolutely crammed. My guidebook says the Quito nightlife is not the best, but we´ll see as this New Town area seems pretty lively so far. I´m glad you´ve sorted your living arrangements. I´m going to have to start thnking about that before too long...
Yeah, I know. 1995. Ages ago. Colin Firth just isn´t what he used to be anymore. Keira Knightley will suck, I´m sure of it, and I guess it´s too late for them to come crawling back to me to play the part...
P&P You've made my day with your roleplay Liz. Bringing back such fond memories, i think it's about time i did the 6 hour marathon again. Do you know they are doing a new film. Disgusted i am! With Keira Knightley! I cried with disgust when i saw the trailer in the cinema. Though someone did point out that it's about 10 years since the last remake. Can you believe it? That's a decade!
True Your instincts have done you proud, lass. The Sony 40 second Electronic Shock Protection is a notorious guzzler. Oh, and don´t lose sleep over the volume level: cranking it up a notch or two won´t cost you much extra wattage. Now you run along and enjoy yourself...
i.e. it's all true. Using ESP will half your battery life, so keep it off. But extra volume doesn't equal extra power, so crank it up!
Hey honey! - am hoping that I can finally make a posting! so... if you are still in La Paz go to the prison if yuo can - they do tours around it and it is amazing - the prisoner who I went with has now been released but I think other people may do it... its called San Pedro and you have to buy your own room in there f you are a prisoner and they take their families in with them and have shops and jobs and make cocaine inside. Well worth it for the complete weirdness of it
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Feel honoured and loved to get a mention in the main body of your blog! Did you like Mungos or whatever it's called? We went twice and it was totally different each time - once full of gap-yaaah-garys (you know the type - travelling beads, too-tanned-for-their-own-good, on mind-altering drugs etc etc) then 2nd time we went was really local, with samba playing and lots of people who pushed my 'soy inglesa' Spanish well beyond its limits.
Anyway, hope you enjoy the salt plains. So funny to think of you in all these places where I was! But so cold - can't imagine that. It was soooo hot when we went to the Salar and with all the reflection off the white, it was almost more than a wee redhead could handle!
Stayed with Em Elliot last night who snores like a trooper so am consequently struggling at work this morning. Did I tell you I'm moving in with Em? Quite exciting! And do you know a friend of hers called Bobby...?!
Mon
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Hello again - and you're on! Might have to wait for New Year's Eve's Eve for the cleriac, unuless you can make it up here earlier... have a great time, love, Mon