on friday at the orphanage the children were TERRIBLE. running into theroad to get mangos, fighting, being rude, saying we were mean and hitting us, throwing rocks at windows, throwing rocks at eachother, playing with glass it was hectic. so we told them that on monday [today] we werent taking them out so instead we are taking some of the older kids this afternoon to the placeta, the paraguayan market and giving them fifty pesos each [just under a tenner] to buy something they want.
i think doing something like that is better than taking them out to lunch or the cinema a couple of times because theyll have something to show for it.
at two oclock on saturday morning me and elen took a five hour bus to Puerto iguazu and checked into our hostel and then took another bus to the actual falls. we had to pay eight five pesos [about twelve pounds] to get in coz we´re tourists and then we got a little train to where to falls are. first we did the upper trail where you walk over the top of the falls and see them falling down next to you and then we didnt the lower trail where you see the falls from below and get absolutely soaked, it was absolutly BEAUTIFUL i was so amazed.
then we did a little boat ride which was a hundred pesos [nearly twenty quid] where they take you into the water and go really near the falls and its like being in a riciulously strong power shower and i dont think ive ever been so completely drenched without sitting in a bath. i´d worn my reeboks and as i walked back up the steps from the boat water was coming out the little holes in the top haha. we had lunch at a ridiculously over priced cafe place and there were these racoon things that kept coming over trying to eat peoples food and one jumped onto our table but didnt manage to get my sandwich :P
we sat there for about an hour and a half in the sun trying to dry off and i get some SEXY burn lines and was no longer soaking, just damp, hen we found some grass to lie down on so our bums could get dry, and then at about four we got the little train and the bus back to the hostel and elen had a siesta and i talked to this canadian girl Natalie who is studying in buenos aires. later we all went and got some food across the road and this drunk american guy was like YOUR SPEAKING ENGLISH and came over and told us about how hed met some english people somewhere lese and we were like... how nice? and we sat and ate and drank these really strong drinks called capraihna or something similar theyre the national drink of brazil and i can see why :] they are way tasty and VERY alcoholic. then we went over to the hostel bar because it was happy hour drinks were two for one and we got more of the tasty drinks and talked to some american guys Brad, Brendan and i cant remember the other ones name. and they had to go have dinner in their hotel but we were gonna wait for them to come back so while we did we found a girl who had Roxanne on her ipod and played this game where when it says roxanne half of you drink and when it says red light half of you drink and we all got pretty sloshed. Brendan came back and told us that the other two were so drunk after their dinner that theyd gone to bed so i wrote on his arm to tell the other two they were pansies. i dont remember much after that to be honest but i do know that canadian natalie put me to bed haha. in the morning we got up and checked out and got breakfast and went to this place where you can see paraguay and brazil its quite cool and theres an arts and crafts fair there and i bought some souvenirs. then we went back and got some lunch and canadian natalie found us after shed been to the falls that morning and then we went and sat inside in the hostel because it was really hot. then a guy from last night, Tom the Israli Stuffmuffin came and found us and we were chatting and we went to play ping pong, he has long curly hair and looks like he should be in a shampoo advert and speaks with his thick accent that i found hilarious. he won ping pong and then we sat down and chatted until i had to go get elen so we could go get our bus back to posadas and he was all annoyed because hed been there for a week coz hed been waiting for a package and has seen so many people come and go lol.
on the bus on the way back we paid for semi bed seats but we totally got full on bed seats it was so so comfy and they kept bringing round sweets and biscuits and stuff and playing terrible films and music videos until we eventually got back home :]
good good times
Love,
Bethnal x
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