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ive been away for awhile because:
1) no time to write
2) dont feel like writing.


BECAUSE...im getting depressed about leaving. and writing about my experiences doesnt really help. even though i know im going to read my blog over and over when i get back, to remember. but still, the days go by so fast, even faster the months. i try not to think about leaving and try to enjoy every second that im here (even when im bored to death in school), but its hard. the only thing that pops up in my mind is june 26th. these weeks in school ive been spending a lot of time with my fellow classmates in the lab. we´re doing an experiment on all the bakeries of my city (there are 70). we have to by bread from each one and then we do an experiment to see if that bakery uses an ilegal substance called potasium bromide...it can cause cancer but it makes the texture and flavor of the bread more appealing. so far weve done the experiment 10 times, only 2 showed up negative. i actually really like doing the experiment. at the end of the year theres a national science fair. last year my school got third place in all of argentina. also in my nutrition class we´re learning about conservation. so we´re doing a lot of pickling. today we made pears conserved in sugar. i like that too. were also going to make noodles. in my social life, well, it mostly consists of maxi. we do everything together. friday was workers day, meaning that everyone who works has the day off. in other words, nothing is open and its the most boring day of the year. not even the supermarkets open. this weekend i didnt go out dancing or anything. its getting cold and i dont really feel like getting all dressed up to freeze my butt off all night. but stilll, i enjoy weekends to be with my mom, re connect with myself and all that. time to relax. i also am dying to go out with GIRLS, but i dont really see rocio very often and its kind of like shes moved on and is hanging out with girls more her age. so. yeah. and the girls in my class are very immature. nice girls, but outside of school its hard to be myself and i have to act like a 14 year old to get along with them. on saturday i cut my hair SHORT...everyone likes it so it helps me get used to it to. one girl in my class wants to cut her hair like me too. other than that, im planning to go on a trip somewhere before i leave. i also want to have a going away party. so much to do, so little time. im going to go study for my oral exam now. chau,

not dead

hola....sorry i havent written. number one last week was crazyness at school. i had about three million tests. today i gave a presentation on the effects of noise on our health. i think i did well. plus ive been a little bit depressed lately and havent really felt like writing anything. my mom says that ive been "absent" these few weeks. i honestly have no idea whats wrong with me or why i feel sad, but its true. i go to school, go home, go to school, go to sleep. maybe its because im thinking a lot about me leaving. who knows. on saturday maxi and i will celebrate our 3 month anniversary. how sweet. since ive been away from the blog we got into our first fight in which maxis mom totally took my side and scolded maxi for making me cry. hahahahaha. but everything is okay now. i finally reconciled with rocio. last friday we went out together for the first time in a long time. it was really nice to be with her again. i missed her. also this saturday a new club opèns so everyone is excited about that. it sucks not having money, or a camera. anywho, the girls at school im also started to get along with, although they are very fake and very expressive. when theyre happy, the scream. when theyre angry, they scream even louder. i get some bad headaches in school. for example on tuesday when we were supposed to get out early from school but the secretary had made a mistake, you have no idea the fuss they made about that. some of them grabbed their backpacks and left. how daring. well , thats about it for now. hope everything is going well .. chau

got robbed

yes, on thursday i got robbed. was walking on the sidewalk. listening to music. a motorbike came behind me and snatched my purse with my camara in it. so that was just a great start to my holy week. on friday i went to a birthday party with maxi. on saturday it was maxis ex girlfriends birthday so he went to visit her for a little bit, then we went to base. of course we didnt realize neither of us had any money for the taxi back, being that he gets paid this friday and i got robbed so i dont have any money, so we had to WALK BACK. we left at 6 AM and i arrived at my house at 8. so that was just great. then being that this sunday we celebrated easter my mom woke me up at 1:30 to eat. and then we ate chocolate eggs. and thats all. today i went back to school. i have a little cold. this morning i went on a field trip to see a play about the Falkland Islands. April 2nd we didnt have school to comemorate all of the young people that died fighting to keep the Falkand Islands. IT was a very bloody and unfair battle and the Argentineans still consider the Falklands (here Islas Malvinas) still belong to argentina. anyway since last night i was up coughing i fell asleep during the play. then i was in school all afternoon. i have to give a presentation on thursday and i have a test on friday :/
maxi got sick today. he came by my house and said he just got back from the doctor that gave him two injections in his booty. hahahahahaha

holy week

today is monday. i only have three days of school this week because this week is holy week. holy thursday and holy friday. so no one is allowed to go out these days. and im like, what about the people that arent religious? oh well. this weekend was fun. on friday i didnt go out, my throat hurt and it was really cold. on saturday i played board games with maxi and then we watched silent hill, disgusting. then we went to base. his dad was working on saturday so we got in free :)
today is maxis ex girlfriends birthday, so he went over to wish her a happy birthday blah blah blah...........tomorrow i get out of school early because there is a teachers reunion. wednesday i have a psychology quiz. the grading system is you can get a one out of ten no matter how many questions there. so you if you get 100% its a 10. and i got a 9.25 in my ailments class and a 10 in my labor environments class! so yay me. my grandma came back from buenos aires, shes staying here until she decides if shes going to rent a house in venado or go back to buenos aires. right now i have a house full of boys. my three brothers and their friends. ugh. i think its about time for me to go buy more paper for school. oh and on saturday i made a SPECTACULAR cake for maxi and his family and his mom said it was delicious. she loves me. :) and according to maxi shes never liked ANY of maxis girlfriends............muahahahahahahahaha. ok. nothing else for now. chau

tired

hi ppl. basically school has me tied down. ive taken three tests tomorrow i have another one. im in my friends house and i havent studied and im freaking out. still fighting with rocio but everything is better with mariano. plus my mom told me that my brothers are going to live with their dad now, we´ll see if that happens. anywho, there are two more kids from the US here in my city, one i met through a friend, and the other i was shopping and i heard her accent and started cracking up. so thats news. super tired. saturday i went out. after i went to maxis house and his mom made us breakfast. and then i went home. friday i watched the daddy yankee movie at ricardos house. right now im at daianas house, she was in the same class as me last year but she repeated. were about to eat pizza. im trying to study, i really dont have any more energy to do anything school related. at least we have thursday off. and next week is holy week so we have thursday and friday off. i remember when i went to peru that holy week was really amazing. so im excited. what else.....not much. im going sight seeing up north of argentina in may. otherwise everything is good with my brothers and my mom and stuff. i sold mariano my cell phone and bought myself a new one. so he is really really happy about that. the only bad thing is the fight im in with rocio, but i dont really have time to think about her. i dont even have time to think what im going to do 5 minutes from now.

me mata me mata

sorry ive been away for awhile, ive been busy with school. i started tango, i love it! its a lot of fun, especially with maxi. we laugh a lot. school, socially wise, is a lot better. i get along with everyone and the girls too. so its good to finally have girlfriends. tomorrow is one of their birthdays so im going to her party. so im getting invited to places and stuff so thats good. becuase im in a fight with rocio. Because basically she left me alone on saturday with all my money and then texted me an hour later that she wanted to go dancing, and im like NO, im in my house sleeping thanks to you. so i havent talked to her since. what else......not much. school isnt that hard but its TIRING. man, and right now im really nervous because i cant get ahold of maxi and im in an internet cafe and its friday night and i want to go out...hahaha. oh and on tuesday i got into a huge fight with one of my brothers and now he wont talk to me. i dont know. sometimes i want to leave but other times i really dont. very confusing. hope everything is well in the US....nos vemoss chau

school

sucks. i am in school all day. usually from 8 am until 12 then 1:30 until 6:30. so yay. school sucks. and it occupies all of my life. after school i see maxi, and nothing else. oh well. im still happy. anywho, tomorrow i start tango with maxi!!! hahaha luckily i was able to fit that into my schedule. i havent seen rocio since monday. we kind of have conflicting schedules. she works until 10 pm. so i probably wont see her all week. otherwise nothing else has been going on. just school school school!!!! and without reason because these next few months of classes dont do anything for me. but oh well. i have a psychology class that i really like. the problem is now that we are seniors they give us really heavy and detailed subjects, focued on the sciences of course, so its hard for me to understand. i have one subject called ailments. all about food and nutrients and stuff. i have for 4 hours a week!!! ugh. i have another class where we are learning about human rights. stuff like that. very specific. i have another class, labor environments?? not really sure what thats all about, or ecology of urban and rural environments??? WHATEV. im outtie. have to look up information for ailments so we can copy it down monday.

rainnnn finally

its raining!!!! yes.........its been way too out of control hot here. monday school starts, BOOOO. because i am in natural sciences course we have school in the afternoon, not in the morning. kind of really conflicts with my schedule. :( tuesday i have a meeting about the tango class im going to start so im excited about that. on friday and saturday i went out with rocio. nothing new happened, oh yes i ran into maxis ex girlfriend but dont worry, we tolerate each other. no catfights so thats good. yesterday rocio fixed her moto so we went for a little drive...otherwise i was home all day thanks to the rain. i woke up early yesterday to buy my school uniform and school supplies, then it started to rain and the egg rotted (a common phrase used by rocio and me). we have various phrases that i dont know how to translate into english, just the egg rotted. (se pudrio el huevo). anywho, on friday a i woke up at seven in the morning to help brian´s mom get everything ready for brians birthday. i had a nice time, although iwas more busy cutting cake and sandwiched and serving the 8 million people that showed up more than anything else. today i woke up early again to see if i could switch to the other course at school so i can go in the morning. dont think its gonna happen. oh well. ive been watching a lot of movies lately, just taking it easy my last week of vacation. mariano has to repeat what would be 8th grade for him. he failed 8 classes and had to take all of those tests plus geography and physics from last year. didnt make it. now he wants to switch to this really prestigious catholic school to be in the same class as his cousin. oh dear. guillermo is going to sign up for a art design course in the community college here. just to keep himself busy until he decides where hes really going to study..not much else to say. i think i might start working at el soñado in the wintertime. it would be really fun. since its so cold and i wont feel like going out and i can work at a place and still be in the party atmosphere. so anywho, hope the snow is melting back home. chauu

VENI VENI, subite a mi gilera

hola. i dont know what to say. because i talked so much in the last blog. today is thursday. this has been the most boringweek of my life. these past few mornings ive been getting up and walking around centro without cause. mybuddy milco, a boy from senegal who calls me his sister and sells jewelry in centro, came back from his vacation so ive been spending the mornings with him drinking mate. i actually enjoy myself. rocio has been working a lot, so i havent been able tosee her much in the afternoon. although yesterday she came overand we sun tanned and then went to the plaza for a bit. oh and yesterday was one month with maxi and he wrote me a letter andall thatgushy stuff. sorry i just had to throw it in there. my bellybutton isdoing well if you all arewondering, but idont know where everyone got the idea that the eyebrow thing is that BAD. oh well. anyway, tomorrow, REYES DEL CUARTETOOO!!! actually its saturday. tomorrow i might go to aNEW bar, which would be totally exciting because ive only been to the places here, except for when i went to mar del plata. tomorrow is brians birthday, so i have to spend the whole day with him. have to, haha. i mean, WANT TO. after i finish this blog im going to rocios house and were making burgers. thursdaytradition, because her mom has a jehovahs witness meeting so we dont have her rompiendonos las bolas. not gonna translatethat. well, nothing new. sorry for the boringness. :( thanks for responding to the pics.ok.bye

colgada

WELL only two weeks until school starts...sadly 4 of my classmates have decided not to go to school anymore and work instead, about 6 more are getting held back SO, we´re basically about 10 girls this year. should be just a blast. :/ anyways, other than school starting, ive been busying myself these last few days being spontaneous and living life like they say you should in the movie The Secret. So on thursday Rocio went with me to get my bellybutton pierced. :) yes, i did it. thank you very much. i like it too. and its really easy to take care of. so anywho, what else, on thursday it was SO HOT it was unbearable like literally everyone was cooking on the inside,,,then the whole weekend it poured raining and today was a beautiful day with a breeze and everything. so on saturday i went over to maxis house to eat :) it was a lot of fun, and i washed the dishes after for an extra touch. and then we watched movies with his brother and drew pictures, and i do have to say, i may very well be the worst drawer in the world, besides shelly of course, but i think maxi pretty much beats me and shelly combined. :) then rocio and i went out, although it was raining and FREEZING, we went to "El Raza" a gas station thats right by el soñado and where everyone goes when el soñado doesnt open, like saturday. so anyway, brian, rocio, and i and two of rocios friends hung out there which was really fun until 4 AM when we went to BASE which was also really fun! so i had a great weekend. a different club is going to be opening soon, called Francis, and BASE will be closing. yesterday was gustavo, my youngest brothers birthday. and he wanted me to wake up at 12 to go to his dads house to celebrate his birthday. and im like, dude, happy birthday and all but i got home at 8 in themorning. so he got really upset and all that but oh well. he made me cry on my birthday so i think we´re even. so then i wrote him a letter and i went to centro with maxi, rocio, and rocios almost boyfriend mosca (mosca means the bug fly in spanish because he has a fly face) hahahahaahahahahaha. the worst part is she used to have a thing with a guy named rata because he has a rat face! hahahahahahah she has a thing for animals. :) oh and my grandma came back to visit us for 4 days!!!! so FINALLY i get four days of good food. :) but then shes going back to buenos aires because its my cousins birthday on thursday. my grandma still doesnt know if shes going to get a house here in venado or if she will stay in buenos aires, but she knows she is definitely not going to come back to our house. dont blame here, shes been here for a day and half and shes already trampled. okay, thats enough info for now. chauu OH I FORGOT TO TELL YOU ALL, so here in a town nearby called Arias they have a carnival in the month of january, and really famous cuarteto bands go and girls dressed in metal contraptions dance and all that, i couldnt go because my 6 months hadnt expired so i could go with rocio without my mom, so i was really bummed. but this weekend the carnival is coming HERE!!!!!!! and LOS REYES DEL CUARTETO are going to play!!!!!!!!!!! i know this means nothing to you but i LOVE los reyes del cuarteto ok nothing more bye

pics from bday

pics from the bday!!! and one from today uploading them with brian,,,drinking mate.... :) chau

everyone has to see "the secret"

ok so on sunday when the whole world does nothing i watched the most AMAZING film ever called the secret. im not gonna explain totally what its about but basically about the power of the human mind and how we are capable of getting everything we want just using our mind. so now im totally into this movie and being happy and using my mind to do things. so im like, ok im gonna try this out. so my brothers cigarrette smoke was blowing into my face so i closed my eyes and pictured a wind that was blowing the smoke in the other direction. and when i opened my eyes it was going in the other direction! so then i started to think, maybe ive been using this secret before. so the whole idea is you have to really believe that whatever it may be that you want is already yours. so, i started to think. when i was 10 years old i would have daydreams about living in argentina, but it was so real it was like i already had a life there. and im here! creepy things like that. so anyways, WATCH THE MOVIE. oh and a very happy birthday to my grandpa who turned 167 on sunday, ready to croke but keeps on going! :) oh and today im going to get my birthday piercing!! :) :) :) super excited. hmm what else, my brothers are starting to have to go to school to take the make up tests for the subjects they failed. mariano failed 8. and he didnt go to take the test today and my mom was just furious. so now shes saying that he has to go live with his dad. oh boy. well, i believe i will go now. im going to make alfajores because i want to and it makes me happy :) saludos, chauuu

chiniii!!!

hello. saturday i had my birthday party at maxis house. took lots of pics, dont worry. well my day started when i had to go WALKING 10 blocks to pick up the cake and then another 16 to my moms friends house to leave it there so my brothers wouldnt eat it. and the cake weighed like 10 pounds on top of everything. then i did nothing all day until nighttime when rocio came to my house and from there we went to maxis. i had a nice night. i got to blow out the candles which i didnt do the day of my birthday. :( sadness. schools starts march 9th so im bummed. i might switch schools, because senior year in the school im at i have to go in the afternoon. plus i had some trouble in the beginning making friends with my classmates. so i can go to a different school where max, the kid from denmark, goes. other than that, summer is coming to a close. so is my trip here. which im thinking about a lot and i get really sad. and then i start thinking about the future and what im going to do. too many things to think about at once. whew. nothing else has happened. oh and the title of this blog is dedicated to my mom and mariano who couldnt pronounce "sydney" and started calling me "chini" or "chinita" and now everyone calls me chini. so its kinda stuck. i love it, ive never had a nickname like that :) chauu

hola

helloooooooooo, not much new going on here but i felt like letting you guys know whats been going on. today i woke up at 9. went for a walk in the plaza next to rocios house. chatted with her. today we are making the cake for my birthday party tomorrow. theres a lot of planning to do still. tonight i got invited by an acquaintance of mine to help her work at a 15th birthday party in Base.........so i am supeeeeeeeeer excited because ive always wanted to work there..we´ll be selling soda behind the bar :) so yay me. tomorrow is the party. yesterday i went with maxi in his motorbike to collect the money, only one person paid. hahah. anyways, thats about all for now. i´ll let you guys know how the party went. chau

pics

the pics....rocio and i, maxi and i, my friend brian and i eating the famous argentinean barbecue in the fields, rocio and i before going out one night, etc...enjoy

happy birthday to muahhh

first of all.......thank you so much to everyone who sent me a card or an email or any birthday wish. thank you so much, it makes me feel like i am at home with all of you, instead of here. it doesnt really feel like my birthday. im sitting in the internet cafe, which is why my blog has been recently abandoned. sorry. anyway, im sitting here, rocio came to my house and we attempted to make a cake, in the end we bought sheets of cake and just decorated it. much easier. last night i went to bed at 11 and was out cold, but mariano woke me up at 12 and gave me a necklace. his friends came by to wish my happy birthday, and then they wanted to drink mate so i dragged myself out of bed to be with them for awhile. then i had a night full of nightmares. and then i woke up, and i thought, today is my birthday. but it feels like any other day. its really sad actually. then i read my moms letter about a trillion times and bawled. i love all of you guys. thank you all so much for supporting me and for loving me so much!!! its hard to be away from the ones you love on your birthday. although there is plenty of love here, its not the same. saturday im having a party at maxis house.....a lot of people are coming. obviously, its the yankee´s birthday. i mean everyone wants to come to the yankee´s birthday party. :) heehee.

i would write something deep and wise but i feel like the last entry pretty much covered what i want to say. i think im going to go home and take a shower now. maybe that will wake me up and make me realize that im SEVENTEEN!!!! its hotter than my kitchen with the oven turned on and no air conditioning,,,,can you imagine?? it sucks. okay, thanks again everyone!!!! love you all...chauu

P.S. the pics are from christmas (black dress) and this saturday en el soñado (bar). im with Rocio in both pics and yes, she is 100% argentinean.

heavy

Tomorrow is exactly 6 months since i first arrived in Argentina. Wow, so much has happened to me. I have grown up so much. Now that in one week im turning 17 im starting to look back on everything that has been going on. and although some things have made me learn my lesson the hard way, i dont think i regret anything. i am just that much stronger i think. its hard to know exactly who iam no, i cant think about it or write it down. sometimes i feel dumber, but i know i definitely am not. i have learned that people are people, that are capable of love and hate; it doesnt matter the color of your skin or how much money you have. maxi taught me that. i never thought id find someone who wants to protect me with everything they have. he doesnt have money or anything to fall back on, but he is a wonderful person who works very hard. so now on my birthday, im going to look back on everything, and, for one time in my life, im going to celebrate myself. i never realized it before, but i guess i am kind of amazing. the whole world most definitely does not revolve around me, and i am just one body of little importance in this gigantic world. but for once im going to smile and think "yeah, i am great." and laugh at my mistakes and celebrate love and friendship and family and all the people in the world. because the world needs to learn to love one antoher just because we are all the same. i love you sydney.
chauuu

buenasss

so this whole week rocio has been pretty unavailable. :( today she went to a wedding in a different town so im like totally bummed out. ive seen maxi everday this week, but he works, so to kill my boredom yesterday i actually went out to pelopincho, which hasnt been cleaned for weeks, and i CLEANED the thing. there was dirt and bugs and nasty all in the water, it took two hours to get all of the water out. i burnt my back pretty bad. anyways, after i cleaned the pool i was so happy with myself that i got in it. and stayed there for awhile. and there was this amazing silence because no one was home. i loved it. at 10ish maxi stopped by. he wasnt going to stay very long, but then my brother wanted me to play monopoly and maxi played too!! it was so fun. then he got bored and went home, but he let my brothers drive his moped down the street, so they were happy, i was happy, everyone was happy, yìpee. and now maxi wants to meet his ¨mother in law¨ and ¨sister in law¨ as he says so you guys are gonna have to come and meet him. today we are getting together at rikis house. tomorrow i think im going to take a break from the bf and go out with rocio. i really miss her. you dont really realize how much you depend on one person until they leave you for a whole week! oh well, when she doesnt have so much work to do we´ll get back to our old routine. what else, im getting up early and going for walks everyday. today was take-care-of-all-the-crap-back-home day. so im sitting in the internet cafe. taking care of the crap. okay. im going to eat lunch now. chauuuuuuuuuuuu MOM---> (eyebrow piercing)

novio

this weekend was boring and fun at the same time. rocio was sick this whole weekend with a fever so she couldnt hang out at all. today i saw her. i went to her house and we sat in the plaza next door and talked about life. its funny, we did the exact same thing last monday too. so now we´re making mondays go to the plaza day and talk about life. cute, i know.
friday i didnt go out!! its been a long while since ive stayed at home on a friday night. i went to bed at 11:30. so sad. saturday the most exciting thing happened when i got my new boyfriend! well its not that exciting because its maxi, the guy ive been tailing for four months. here when two people start going out, they officialize it and make it 8 million times more embarrassing by doing a fake wedding. so i had to live through my 10 minute wedding on saturday too. so now its gonna double suck to come home. but its nice to have a boyfriend. its been awhile. yesterday we went to centro together with his best friend and my classmate riki. and now riki calls me his sister in law.. :) today we went for a walk together, old people style. then i saw rocio and all that. anyways, i told my mom (here and there) about maxi. my mom here approves. she says he is a really nice boy and works hard for what he wants (he worked and saved up his money to buy himself a motorcycle). im working on my birthday plans with rocio as well. other than that, school starts in march already-most of the boys i dont think will be able to pass so we´re going to be the majority girls this year.
ive been passing the summer with much pleasure. theres not always something to do or somewhere to go, but you make your own fun with the people you love. laying on the floor drinking mates doing nothing with the fan in your face with your best friend, or your boyfriend, is a lot more meaningful to me than going out. chauu

pool

i have been busy with lounging at the pool lately so i wasnt able to write. yesterday i spent the entire day with rocio at a friends pool. at 8 in the morning i get up and go walking with her. yesterday i stayed at her house to eat and sleep siesta. then we went to the pool. where maxi threw me in, with my cell phone. :) so im just peachy about that. but he was very nice about it and offered me his cell phone until he could get mine fixed. anyways, today i went to rocios pool. dont think everyone has a big huge pool in the ground, its more like one of those blow up pools that are huge, here they are called pelopincho. but they do the job to cool you off, it is so hot here. right now rocio and i are busy planning my birthday and what we are going to do for a party. here birthdays are huge. rocio never had abirthday party because of her moms religion. sometimes i feel very sorry for her. things at home are alright. ive had to adjust a lot to my brothers who arent very well-mannered. when my mom has to work late i usually have to do the cleaning beause my brothers dont clean and then we have flies and dirtyness and gross. and i almost have a boyfriend. :)

thinking...

hello.today i was thinking a lot about how ive gotten sooo lazy here. because the culture is more relaxed and less work-driven like the U.S. and i dont really like it anymore because i feel like im going to suffer a lot when i get back, and i also likebeing productive and doing work related things even when i dont have to :) i think that has beenthe hardestadjusement. in the U.S. everyone is all about work work work work work! even the students get pushed to their limits to do well in school and get intocollege and such. and here its the total opposite. and i know im here to enjoy my year but its very hard when you were born and raised to work work work. now i have a genious plan working in my head. after i graduateim going to mx to visit my friend with my best friend. then im coming back here to live with rocio and study here. its genious. and no ones going to tell me no! because im going to make it back here no matter what it takes.

stories to give my mom a heart attack...love you :)

hello again...im trying to get pictures up as fast as possible. i have to go to my dads house to download because he has a mouse....i spent two hours trying to download everything and it didnt save, i´ll try again soon. i did manage to get them up on my myspace if anyone is capable of accessing it. anyway, today is saturday. yesterday i went to el soñado with rocio and then we stayed in the plaza until 7 AM. she cut her hair the way i wanted it and it looks sooo good. she slept over. we got up at 11 AM so i could cut my hair the same way, but the hair stylist wasnt there. so i went back to bed until 4 pm. my mom took mariano fishin in villa cañas, a city nearby. however, he was so tired (he didnt go to sleep last night) that they came home early and he is totally crashed out right now. after dinner, im going to a birthday party with rocio and maxi. and then im going dancing. my birthday is coming up!!! im having trouble deciding what im going to do to celebrate!! hm....what else has been going on here... more about my trip to mar del plata. it was so weird to be in huge city, im so used to a smaller one like venado, where everyone knows me. so it was nice to not have everyone stare at you everywhere you go. what else, i believe i already toldyou i scuba dived......which i will never do again in my life!! no thank you. on top of it here in argentina they SAY that something that is totally and completely dangerous is perfectly safe and they protect you, but really they dont do ANYTHING to make sure you are completely safe. for example, when i went tubing with the little brat gustavo we almost missed the tube, and while we are running to it, the guy is running after us shouting¨"dont wrap the strip around your hand because when you tip over you could hurt yourself!!!" thanks guy. and then theres the fact my life jacket almost came off in the water. oh and they dump you about 10 m from shore and you have to swim back. but dont worry, its completely safe! :)

back from mar del plata

hello,,,,,,,,,,,im back from mar del plata..it was nice to see a different part of argentina and be close to the sea. we ended up staying in an apartment instead of camping so that was nice. my brothers got on my very last nerve towards the end, but otherwise i had a lot of fun. i went to the beach with gustavo a lot. one day he wanted to go tubing behind a jetski in the ocean. and i didnt want to go. so he begged my ¨cousin¨, who also came with us, to go with him. and when she said no he started swearing and threw a huge tantrum so i was like okay whatever i´ll go with you. even though i hate tubes i get so scared. anyway, so we´re going alonga and im all mad and scared and stuff, and we flip over. and gustavo starts saying ¨ouch my head my head i really hurt my head¨ so im like freaking out like hes really hurt....so he goes up front on the jetski with the guy that drives the thing. so im like okay at least he cant fall over anymore. but then, the little brat turns around, looks at me, winks and starts laughing! he totally faked everyone so he could ride up front. and i was royally ticked off about that. i also went dancing with my cousin, which was so much fun! the dicos in mar del plata are open everyday during the tourist season, so i went on saturday and on monday! it was nice to be ina big city where no one knows you as well. i also went to a seaworld type place and scuba dived! never again in my life thank you....i also went to a water park. and i stayed up all night and then walked to the beach to see the sunrise,,,,,,,really really beautiful. actually i stayed up all night a few times with mariano. there was a little bar in the corner in front of our department and we would go at the 3 in the morning and then again at 6 to buy pastries and stuff for breakfast. so that was fun. i also went with mariano and one of guillermos friends to bar in a street called alem, its famous because its a street of just bars and clubs. so i went with them there. it was really fun. in other news while i was gone the girl from thailand went back to her country......i didnt get to say goodbye to her. it made me think how fast time is going by and it scares me!!! i feel like a whole different person and like i have a new life!!! its so weird. well, thats all for now i think i´ll go to bed, i have a little cold...pics soon chauu.