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Published: February 5th 2010
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So about 36 hours after I left London with an extremely short snooze in Lima, I arrived in Montanita! It's a small hippie surf town on the coast and I love it!
I started my Spanish lessons about 3 weeks ago and at first I was just learning the alphabet so I thought Spanish was going to be easy. What a mistake that was! I think it's going to be of those things I may have to let beat me although I'm refusing to give up! Everyone where I'm staying speaks English too I'm not exactly forced to learn Spanish. Although I do seem to picking up a lot of Swedish (well I understood one sentence) thanks to the high concentration of beautiful Swedish people running around here.
I'm sort of becoming accustomed to the local prices here- when I first got here I couldn't believe how cheap everything was. You can get lunch for $1.50 and the best banana bread in the world for $0.20. But now I've been here a few weeks, I'm like "$8.00 for dinner, are you insane?? That's waaay too expensive!" They cater pretty well for veggies here too (maybe because of
all the hippies that line street) so I figure that I'll get really fat here to get some reserves for when I'm living on rice and beans for the rest of my trip!
Had my weeks' worth of Salsa lessons in my first week but after quickly realising that I have 2 left feet, I decided that one week was enough. The teacher was awesome though and very, very patient. I was getting so dizzy with the spinning around that we kept having to have a break until I got my head straight. I did manage to dance the steps I was taught without thinking about them which is a real high point in my life!
In my first week here, I went to a sushi party at a house on a beach a couple of towns away. It was the most beautiful house and you got to have unlimited sushi and drinks. Which was kind of wasted on me but I had a good time anyway.
It was followed the next night by a bonfire at the beach. Which I think happens once a week. Its blistering heat here and with added fire,
you feel like you're burning despite it being nighttime. But it is pretty cool because everyone's down there and you can hear the music from "Calle de Cocktailes".
Following that, later on in the week there was a bbq at the cabanas where I'm staying which was also kind of wasted on me - only had a potato and rice! There's another one tonight and I've put in a request for something veggie so I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Three weeks is a lot to write about in one go so I'm afraid I'm going to have to leave you in suspense until my next instalment...
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Michael Underwood
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Montanita ?
Oh so that's where you are, mum said you had gone to Bognor :) Luv Dad