Wow, it´s anouther new world

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Well I´ve decided to keep a blog, to keep everyone back home happy, but there are terms and conditions so please read carfully 😊 lol. My writing style is unique, as is my spelling, if you don´t like it laugh, it´s so much better than crying. All opions are libile to change, and any thoughts and feedback, espically on politcal veiws, are encoraged. Enjoy. alos one more thing, don´t take everything i write seriously, most of the time i´m taking the piss 😊

Well I flew out on last Thursday, flying Airline argintinas... good airline, the seats were slighly bigger as we were on an airbus, and the air hostess, well lets just say, move over Thai, you have compertition. Only gripe, well actually these´s 2. 1) No spirts on the plane..... this is my favorate part of flying lol... i felt very short changed... ohh well 😊 2) Auckland airport, does not ahve a smoking room, now this sucks, when your on a 15 hour flight, drinking beer, and you get a stop over you want to smoke. Ohh well such is.

ok got to BA airport, caught a bus into town, then the metro to where i wanted to stay. Anyhow oi get off at the metro station, and walk 10 blocks in the wrong direction, it was pretty funny, turn around walk back, and find where i want to stay, only it´s booked out, ehh so i treak for anouthre hour. and then .,,,.,.,.,. (drum roll) i see a protest... i´m gonna like this city. out comes the camera... it´s must have been a funny sight, i´ve got a huge pack on, it´s getting late, i´m hot sweaty, with eye balls hanging out of my head.. think wren and stimpy style...lol, anyhow i finally find a hostel. i shower whatever, and think, i´ll go get some money, somthing to eat and dinner. well enter Joe.

Joe´s this guy from melbourne, who´s travelling for like a year around the world, we get chatting, and decide to go to dinner together (now no dirty thoughts people, it wasn´t like that 😊 lol. Anyhow in between the bank and this restraunt, we decide a pub´s in order. Anyhow, we soon descover it´s happy hour....although i think that´s a near permant feature of BA, told you i was going to like this place. Anyhow like 5 beers latter we get to this restraunt, and this 7 foot huge waiter comes up hugs us gives a kiss, and finds us a seat. Now it´s argintina right, so we get steak. God damn, god damn god damn. it was good. Imagine if you can like 1 kilo of eye fillet, cooked to perfection, only not eye fillet... better, actually i´ve heard that some places just to show off cut the steak in front of you with a .... wait for it... spoon, that´s how tender it is, anyhow it´s beyond words, ohh did i mention it was like 5 bucks. Anyhow after dinner we head back to the hostel, where i´m swearing that it´s bed time. We get there and jo convinces me thta a nightcap in the roof bar is in order...well my arm was twisted so ehh.

Anyhow we get to the bar, and it´s full of (note all feminists avert your eys lol) fucking amazingly hot chicks... like damn damn damn. anyhow by this point i´m drunk proper, and as joe put it, how can you not go out with company like that... so we ended up going to a club. the rest of the night is blury, the last thing i remember is getting out of a cab, thinking good this is where my hostel is. Now this is thanks to the best travel trick ever... take a busness card of where you stay, then you alwys make it home.

Morning... i have to check out at 11 as the place is booked out. I wake up, amm like fuck... where am I, what happened to my head... then i´m like hang on, this is not normal, i´m in a bunk bed,, hang on a sec i´m in fucking argintina. Anyhow at the time it´s was not funny, like i´m proper hung over, jet lagged, and starting to feel the effects of the yellow fever i got a hit of a week before, but now in retrospect, it´s piss funny, and that was really the thoughts that were in my head. Anyhow, i mange to get anouther night there, so i sleep all day (note this is great for dealing with jet lag). Anyhow that was prety much friday.

On saturday, I checkout, and go find my spanish school. I find the school, and organise my homestay, but i find out that it does not start till thursay. Anyhow Enter Lara. Lara´s spending a week in BA, learning spanish at my school, she´s from canada, and really cool. Anyhow i end up staying at the same hostel as lara, like a block from the school. We spend the day walking around, soaking it all up. It´s great, just really nice, and i like walking so it´s cool. What´s more BA´s a really nice city. the buildings remind me of paris, it has some nice parks, great food, good scenary (ha ha ha lol), and a rocking night life. Anyhow we get back to the hostel : Enter Chile´ girls. There is like 10 chicks all like 23ish over here for a week of party and shopping, and when i say party i mean party. Like 6am in the morning, music blaring dancing around the hostel.... you should see the photo´s. Anyhow needless to say it was anouther night without much sleep.

Sunday spend the day cheaking out some markets, with lara, and an american-chilian chick iggy. Find amazing vinal. Beatles, billy joel, heaps, all really cheap. So somone is going to get a nice package sent to them. Gouldy keep your fingers crossed. Spend like 6 hours walking around, it was again a nice day. Anyhow that night, i promise myself i´ll get some good sleep, so i go to bed at like 6.... ha this is funny, cus at 10 i get woken up, and ordered to party. I´m like ok, if you insist 😊 lol. Anouther 5 am day, and i was considered a piker... crazy.

Now i should mention somthing, iggy, interesting girl, self confessed ultra neo liberal, Quote ¨as right as you can get¨, comes from a wealthy family, her dad imports fruit to the states, has servents ect. Anyhow I love this shit, cus it´s different veiw, and i get to learn alot about reginal politic´s. Chile´has had alot of boarder desputes with peru, Argintina and bolivia, and the people still habour stong feelings about this. Chile´has wide spread poverty, i learn about the mines, and how many people die there, because the big companies don´t give a fuck, and they pay shit money, it´s so sad. The eccomony, how like the top 3% of the pop controls like 90% of the wealth, Note all figures from iggy, so ehh whatever. I learn about how in this 3 % many people veiw it as ok to treat you servants like shit, because there you serventss, ect. It was really cool having iggy being able to tell me about this so hoestly, like what´s she had seen from her friends do. it´s intersting, she gets as angry about this as me, like her upbringing, tought respect for everyone, and she does charity work ect, it was learning for me, to someone rich hate class structures as much as me. There really is a class structured socity over here, it´s really sad. I was out at a bar, and i saw someone, like abuse a waiter and be a total dick, because he has money, and the waiter doesn´t. i was torn between wanting to hit the fucker (he´s lucky i´m a pacifist) and wanting to cry, but ehh that´s the culture. Anyhow not all is lost. there is graffeti everywhere calling for a revolution. Things like ; the fight for fair wages is not over; and equaql rights for all. Over here like in the hostel we get served breakfast... but like served by the maid, and it´s weird cus i want to get my own, wassh my on plate up, because we are all people all equal. I´m looking forward to being able to tell these people my veiws, and make them feel good about themselves, because alot of them seem sad.

anouther thing on the people over here. the place has a feel that´s there has been a fall from grace. Argintina´s eccomony is fucked, and people lost alot of money when the banks collapsed. the exchange rate used to be 1usd to 1 paso, now it´s 3 to 1. It´s kinda depressing, people still don´t have faith in the eccomony, you can feel in the air this feeling of insecurity. They don´t feel like there is job security, they fear inflation, it´s interesting, but the people are lovely, very helpfull, very friendly, and every so embracing. Lots of hugs, and kisses, like on the cheak, it´s cool, very warm.

Anyhow, enter spanish school. Spanish is hard work for me, i have 2 hours one ' on ' one, then 2 hours with lara. It´s good, and i´m learning qucikly, but still struggling with things like how the verbs change, and how the word 'you´, gramitcally can be plural, and how you have to change the words according to male female plural and singular, formal and infornal, but all is good. lots of laughter. The teacher is good as well, she really know´s her stuff.

ohhh one thing i must mention, i was buying some sunnies the other day, and in the shop they were playing, midnight oil - beds are burning, how cool is that, i was buzzed to sasy the least.

Anyhow monday night, we cook dinner with a couple of French people ben and chantelle´ it´s really nice, and i get to eat rice with vegtables, cus over here you don´t eat many veggies. It was like a mini'dinner party, some good wine, it´s all good. Anyhow the conversation flows, and the chile´girls are partying again. somehow i don´t know how, ben and i end up having make up put on us... and note here, i was sobber... lots of laughs. We end up going to an englsih pub, which was great, they played lots of U2, the cranberries, chilli´s powerderfinger. Anyhow needless to say anouther 5am day. the night life here is crazy... it rocks on all night 7 days a week, unbelievable.

Anyhow today, tuesday, hung over trying to learn a language... lots of fun, ehh i just laugh. Going out to a tango show with ben lara and chantelle tonight... should be good, but to give you an idear of the night life, the show dosn´t start till 11, and bens told me as he´s leaving that´s it´s going to be a big night..... don´t know what the means, but i´m sure school will be fun.

well done my rambling..... i´ll put some photo´s up soon. they will be worth the wait, me in make up, hot chicks, partying, and in general me laughing and having a great time.

Best karmic wishes to the world.

chao

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Photos

Protest In BA
A protest as soon as I get here... hey hey, I´m gonna like this place

Shopping at the markets
Iggy´sa the blonde, Laraa, the brunete

The people are rebeling
Stuff like this is everywhere. I think it calls for a revolution in the park, at home and in the bed, or somthing, on may day.

5am still partying
The party just never stops.... everynight till 6 am. But ehh it´s good, until schoool the next morning

Yes I´m wearing makeup
Just for fun, we laughed our asses off, though i was not the only one wearing it, ben the frenchy got it as well.

Pre Tango
We all get dressed up, or as well as backpackers can. There´s 2 poms, i forget there namesa, on the left, Ben at the back, Charrelette, me and lara in blue at the front.

Ba At night,
The photo say it all, it´s like the paris of the south.

Comments

[annie]

good to hear your having fun
but i think its gonna take its toll on you. you need sleep my lad. but youll find a nice groove to fit in and be ok. you always do continue having fun, and take care