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Published: December 7th 2008
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Rex og Pil
Pil og rex er svinde!! Sante Fe is so beautifull, it said in the guide book that there was nothing here to see, but fuck that stupid book! This town is beautifull and i have learnt so much in my few days here! The heat is incredibly intense, in the day time its hard to be out and about because it sucks your energy from you, the evening from six onwards is like a new day! The stars are beautifull out here too. We found a person to stay with using couch surfing and we put our tent up in her garden. Her name was Cecilia and we stayed two nights. We hung out with her boyfreind and oen of her freinds the first night and got a little drunk staying up late in their lovely garden drinking beers and some home made beer too!! The night was nice and i really learnt a lot about argentina and well......how fucked up a few thigns are. I guess it is a matter of opinion and of course all argentinians will feel differently but from what i learnt, i could see some things that made me very sad.
For starters is travel, for the average argentinian to
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nice tree in sante fe! move around argentinia seems very expensive, because they only have their bus system, no railways. Actualyl thats not true, they do have railways, but the goverment decided to privatize them, then the companies didnt make enough and shut it all down. Here in sante fe you can see the ruins of this, railways platforms covered by nature and garbage, the huge abandoned beautifull railway station which me and pil exploerd. Now instead of a sysetm to connect the coutnry the station is used my dogs to sleep in and people too.....which is good of course, but i can see the problems caused by the lack of a railway network. THe second day we were here some local activists made a demosntraion outside the abandoned station calling for the goverment to make the trains run again...... but the goverment have a different idea, they want to make a new railways system of fast trains, just for certain important cities which will, like the buses, be unafordable, its ridiculous.
I learnt also that the benefit system here is fucked....just a couple of small examples.... if a parent has a malnutritioned child, they can receive a lot of money, well nto a
lot but enough..... but if not the benefit drops until they are really finding it hard to get by.....this is fucked because, of course many peolpe are forced to take their child to the doctor under nutrioned just to be able to surivive, it sounds fucked up of the parent, but i think who is the ones who are really fucked up here? the same rule applies for if you have six kids, more money.........so people are getting more kids for money.
It all seems to come back to me to some simple things........greedy people in power, not thinking abotu the people but about profit and their own comfortable lives. I sometimes feel empty when i think about this, because i dont know what i can do other than learn more and more things that are fucked with the ruling systems in this world.
yesterday we went rowing down the river of sante fe, cecilia got us down there, 3 pesos to row a boat in a beautifull river for a day.....we went past some beautifull abandoned buildings, the old port and then past the shante towns on the shore.........there is somethign mixed up in argentina, with the classes.......theres
a lot to this but i dont want to write more until i have observed more because i could be very wrong!
I really feel in my couple of days i got a feel for this town, and my questions are unquenchable i have more and more, i want to know about this beautifull, but unfair country, and as I travel further north i get excited for tommorow we will arrive at an area called mercedes, and then find a place filled with lagoons and floating islands and 100s and hundered of rare bird species! you cant get there by bus and must get a local to take you deep into the area, it sounds like paradise and we will spend a few days there relaxing! After this the plan is to go to the izaugu falls, then cut west to Salta, then for my last couple of weeks, down to Mendoza, which is next to the andes, and very close to santiago........im really hoping to cross the border and spend christmas with Sophie M! but i must write her an email to see if that is possible
hope all is happy back home! photos will come soon......er or later
the garden
the garden we couchsurfed in! 😉
much love
samius x
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Muvva turnip again
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Hi Sam and Pil, The questions, I sat here feeling very sad about your writings regarding child malnutrition, makes my food seem greedy... It makes me wonder how such a beautiful country can be so skewed, but I guess that is the nature of the beast called man? When we were in Thailand we saw it was true the stars are brighter, are they there too? Or were we just lucky before? Keep enjoying and keep learning Sam, a fantastic experience and even if you can't change things you can change how you view the world! Muvva Turnip, again!