12/25/08 Merry Christmas

I am so happy, I am watching A Christmas Story on Youtube as I write this. A Christmas Story is THE christmas tale. It´s the best, I never tire of TBS 24 hours of Christmas story and have memorized mostly all the dialogue and every scene...I like movies and christmas movies are my favorite. I spent the day bogarting the TV and I managed to see part of The Holiday, which can, at best,be loosely considered Christmasey and The Grinch with Jim Carrey. The Grinch is hilarious with Jim Carrey, I had never watched it all the way through, but it´s awesome. I got a present yesterday from the hostel, it was a personal sized pan dulce and it was good. All was going well with my make shift movie marathon until the night reception guy came on and stole the tv to watch soap operas. Who is the customer here buddy? Whatever...be postive. I got my journal and sat down to outline my wonderful past 2 days. I got most of the way through christmas eve when i heard some loud mouthed Austrailian (all sorts of cuss words I´m sure you can think I might use)talking about me speaking spanish with an American accent and I got all mad and could no longer write nicely about my wonderful times travelling and just as I am writing this I am thinking maybe she was talking about someone else...even still that is just not nice! Stupid Rude drunk girl. There was a whole party taking place and she ran everyone off being obnoxious. Ah oh well, I feel better now. Ralphy brought me back to reality. It is christmas after all. I´m going to a spanish lesson tomorrow and some time next week I am going to go to another neighborhood and go yarn shopping and eat mexican food, I hope its good. I am having a wonderful time and just relishing taking in what I can. Last night people lit off fireworks for hours, it was so pretty. There were these paper lanterns on fire floating through the sky.It was so cool. I hope everyone had a good christmas! Have fun playing with your new toys and remember...don´t shoot your eye out!

12/15/2008

To the man in Iraq that threw a shoe at president Bush:
I assume you will be punished, but it shouldn´t be so. Thank you.

I found out yesterday that every argentinian person i know is a bush fan and they don´t like Obama. I feel so alienated. It makes sense, it´s very conservative here.

It´s business time, flight of the conchords is getting me through it.

enjoy the snow!

Random stuff i remembered...
a few days before i left brazil my dad was on his daily walk and he saw a little kid get his bike stolen by a guy with a machete!

there was a big demonstration, protest here and i went to a different neighborhood to go to the doctor. I got there just fine, but no taxi would take people back to my neighbor hood when i was done. My friend and I stood on the street for i think close to an hour when we found out what the issue was. The subway was also closed. I ended up taking a bus for the first time. The usual 10-15 min ride was an hour because the protestors had closed down so many streets. I saw demonstration later on the news and there were thousands of pèople there. They were in the Plaza de Mayo fighting against hunger.

12/10/2008

im sick, have been bad for 2 days and going back to bed i just wanted to let you know i wasnt dead

Today marks 4 months left in South America
my trip is 33.3% over and even though i am hella grumpy and wanna come home cause i hate being sick, i cant believe how fast time is going
hope you guys are good
send me some snow please

12-06-2008-midday

I decided to take a bit of exercise and headed out for a walk about town. I did a square around San Telmo, not all of it mind you, but about 45min worth of walking. I intended to spend a couple of hours, but it is really freakin hot today. I was sweating like a crazy person trying to get off a hold. Ladeda walking around on streets i havent been on before, run into a whole collection of homeless people in their little corridor of mattresses on the sidewalk and further along I go. I head to my destination which is this nice little park and I see a little kid sell some crack. He was like 11 maybe 13 if he had been really under-nourished his entire life. It looked like the little kid was the one holding and he was sitting on the edge of this park i was going to, there was a rock wall so he was raised up like 5 feet from the street. this teenaged gangster looking guy went up to him and picked up the sack and crossed the 5 lane street to deliver it to some scuzzy looking people who were all cracked out sitting outside this drug den complete with their own crazy homeless person hollaring all sorts of whatevers. So in the great scheme of things this little boy is a baby drug dealer and his even littler brother was with him, probably 5 or 6. It must be a family business. I only noticed this transaction because they were really tense and nervous, looking around all suspicious like. I really hope that little kid isn't doing the drugs. It's horrible.

After this i found a saturday market that was huge, but mostly only selling used clothes and shoes. On the upper portion of the park there was another little saturday market that was still setting up and it was just the kind we are used to. Artistic hippies pitching their wares, all the stuff was handmade and alot of it was really cool. I'm off to study. See ya guys later!

12/05/2008

SCWEEEEEEEEET.
i totally just paid $218 for a room for a month, how rad is that? awesome!

12/02/2008

i am going back to argentina tomorrow. some cool stuff happened that i can write about. i dont have time now, but i will try and write it up while i am on the bus and post it when i get back to my hostel. here are the last pictures of brasil. i might not be able to post pictures any more. hope you are well bye