Sunday, 20 June 2010
Journey Three
Wake up friday. start making sure everythings packed. Veronica comes in. the air force has closed posadas airport for the entire day. beth its ok you can take the night bus and get your flight to england in time tomorrow. kaitlin its too late for you. you will miss your flight. tears. calls to parents. veronica returns. if you get a bus to iguazu now there is a flight at four to BA and kaitlin will make her connection. lets do it. say goodbye to veronica and iffyyenia. pack. leave. marcelo takes us to travel agent. travel agent tells us to go to aerolinas argentinas office. they change my ticket from posadas to iguazu at no charge. kaitlins wont work for some crazy reason. stay there for about an hour. we now do not have time to get the bus to iguazu we will have to take a taxi. Marcelo calls his uncle taxi driver and gets it on the cheap. kaitlin has to buy another plane ticket. run to car. car to cash machine for taxi. run back to car. car to taxi man. taxi to iguazu. sleep. stop off at banos twice. flight is at four. left at eleven. check time at one. two. start to panic. two thirty. panic more. three. arrive. run. check in. flights delayed. Kaitlin very worried about her flight to texas. we talk about how ridiculous it is that we just got a four hour taxi north to get south to get north again. talk to an australian lady whos been there hours and doubts our plane will even take off. this does not help kaitlin. five o clock. board plane. fly. land. get off plane. get onto bus for literally five metres (no joke) and get off. everyone laughs. strange man says do i smell or something? i look confused and say no. he says oh coz you just laughed at me. no, i laughed becuase the bus only went five metres, like everyone else. idiot. baggage reclaim. kaitlin grabs hers and says goodbye and runs to get a taxi across town to the international airport. i will miss my dear texan friend loads and loads :( . get my bag. go and order taxi. have to wait forty minutes. sit on floor and wait to be called. people watch. man stands with a sign that says "HEMPHILL- Mike and Anthea" for about half an hour. catch his eye and he points at me and then to his sign. i shake my head. he shrugs rolls his eyes and smiles. i smile back. after a few minutes he makes a phone call. looks angry. screws up piece of paper and throws it in bin. looks at me. points to car. look that says "need a taxi?". i point to my reciept for the taxi im waiting for and point to the booth and pull a sad face. he shrugs and smiles and leaves. my taxi is here. hotel. check in. order sandwich to room. cant eat again. watch legally blonde two. sleep. wake up around one. cant sleep again. watch CSI. manage to sleep around three. wake up at seven. get ready. breakfast. barely eat AGAIN. check out. taxi to international airport. check in. have three hours to kill. use the rest of my phone card up to call mum. get cut off. text mum to tell her i love her and will see her soon. she replies i love you too. cute. walk around. security. gate. people watch. listen to music. walk around again. go to gate again. people watch again. half eleven. board plane. i am in the centre seats in the left aisle. there is a gap next to me and then another gap and then an asian man. perfecto weve both got suitable leg room. take off. watch dear john. cabin crew says those who are bunched up can spread out over the available seats in the middle. i spread onto my gap seat to make sure no one steals it. land in sao paulo. murphy the cabin crew man has to check that al the baggage on board belongs to us. i say mine is the rack sack that used to be white and he laughs.new people board and there arent as many gaps but me and asian man still have our gaps. watch rest of dear john. dont eat lunch. exhuasted. wait til it is ten oclock in england and then take a half sleeping tablet kaitlin gave me "half a one knocks me out for eight hours" sorted. quickly run to toilet in case tablet kicks in and i fall asleep and get stuck in the toilet. sit down. wait for tablet to work. half an hour. forty five minutes. hour. this sleeping tablet is not working. finally start to feel mildly chillaxed. sleep for an hour. wake up. sleep for an hour. wake up. sleep for an hour. wake up. all the lights have been turned off. get up and walk around. get water from murphy the cabin crew man. sleep some more. my foot slips and asain man pokes my foot and mumbles something at me because my foot is now in his gap. he hasnt even been using his gap. pathetic. i say whatever and look grumpy and pull my foot back. i am a cow when stressed\not well\tired. some crazy man climbs over me waking me up and sits in asian mans gap and puts his legs across to my gap. i think IDIOT. you have simulltaneously woken me up and stolen my leg room and annoyed asian man who apparently doesnt like people touching his gap even though he doesnt use it. i evil the new addition to my row and tut loudly. he says im sorry is someone sitting here? i say no but my bags and legs are on this seat so.... he looks confused and i shut my eyes and go back to sleep. wake up with a small child next to me in the aisle shouting daddy at weird climbing man. i wake the man and the boy tells his daddy he wants to watch a movie but cant work out how to use the screen. i forgive climbing man for being a nob because he has a cute son. boy returns to his seat and starts pressing random buttons on the screen. climbing man says he should go help before he watches something he shouldnt so i let him out. they serve breakfast and murphy the cabin crew man asks if i would like sausage and egg or cheese croassaint. im feeling hungry for the first time in forever. egg and sausage. he says you slept well. i said yeah a bit. and he says i could hear you all the way from the crew lounge and laughs. hes joking. i dont snore. fact. eat a couple of mouthfuls until i feel sick again. land. passport control. no body goes in the UK passport queue excpt me for some reason so i dont have to queue at all. bag. mum and dad :) and home.
numbers
Photos taken: a thousand
Football matches played: One
Football matches lost: One
Times fallen over during football match: One
Official birthday celebrations: Four
Sleepovers with Vero: Two
Local friends made: Ten
Kilograms of ice cream eaten: Four
Random i love yous in the street: Five
Random Proposals in the street: One
Bus Rides: Seventy(ish)
Coach Rides: Five and a Minibus
Trips Taken: Three
Room-mates: Seven
Plane rides: four
cheek kisses: thousands
illnesses: two, none serious
Addictions: Three (churros, pastries, ice cream)
Churros eaten: average of four a day for the last two weeks
Churro related status updates: Six
Football matches played: One
Football matches lost: One
Times fallen over during football match: One
Official birthday celebrations: Four
Sleepovers with Vero: Two
Local friends made: Ten
Kilograms of ice cream eaten: Four
Random i love yous in the street: Five
Random Proposals in the street: One
Bus Rides: Seventy(ish)
Coach Rides: Five and a Minibus
Trips Taken: Three
Room-mates: Seven
Plane rides: four
cheek kisses: thousands
illnesses: two, none serious
Addictions: Three (churros, pastries, ice cream)
Churros eaten: average of four a day for the last two weeks
Churro related status updates: Six
Thursday, 17 June 2010
Last Days
Wednesday and Thursday (16&17/06/10):
Wednesday i went to the refuge on my own and none of the children were allowed out because they were so naughty. so just hung out and started to get a bit of a headache so came home and ate and siestad and around sixish me and kaitlin went over to Veros house to say goodbye to her grandparents :( we sat around and had Maté and took photos. then me and kaitlin came back and went to Marcelo and Veronicas for Marcelos Birthday and they had lots of friends round who kept asking us if we had boyfriends and stuff :S but other than that it was fun times except my headache came back and i went to bed around one.
had to get up thursday morning for my last day at the refuge and kaitlin came with me. i still felt pretty rubbish and couldnt stomach breakfast but the refuge was fine even though i had to say goodbye to everyone for the last time :( a few of them got a bit upset like maria and michala but theyll be okay once new volunteers arrive!! i went home and slept until kaitlin woke me up at three because i wanted to go to her last lesson at the institute with her to see what it was like and all the kids there were so sweet and funny! and they all write in cursive and theyre only like six years old. after that we walked around town a bit. i bought Jimmy K a present and then felt funny again so left kaitlin in the supermarket and bought flowers for veronica and marcelo and went home to finish packing.
a couple of very boring and yucky feeling days!
Love,
Bethy x
Wednesday i went to the refuge on my own and none of the children were allowed out because they were so naughty. so just hung out and started to get a bit of a headache so came home and ate and siestad and around sixish me and kaitlin went over to Veros house to say goodbye to her grandparents :( we sat around and had Maté and took photos. then me and kaitlin came back and went to Marcelo and Veronicas for Marcelos Birthday and they had lots of friends round who kept asking us if we had boyfriends and stuff :S but other than that it was fun times except my headache came back and i went to bed around one.
had to get up thursday morning for my last day at the refuge and kaitlin came with me. i still felt pretty rubbish and couldnt stomach breakfast but the refuge was fine even though i had to say goodbye to everyone for the last time :( a few of them got a bit upset like maria and michala but theyll be okay once new volunteers arrive!! i went home and slept until kaitlin woke me up at three because i wanted to go to her last lesson at the institute with her to see what it was like and all the kids there were so sweet and funny! and they all write in cursive and theyre only like six years old. after that we walked around town a bit. i bought Jimmy K a present and then felt funny again so left kaitlin in the supermarket and bought flowers for veronica and marcelo and went home to finish packing.
a couple of very boring and yucky feeling days!
Love,
Bethy x
Hail to the bus driver 2..
Dear George,
I saw you again the other day, ive seen you a couple of times actually since my last farewell letter. ive noticed something awful has happened to you. someone has taken away all you felt that used to surround your mirrors and gear stick, and your speakers have been taken away. i can tell that youre not nearly as merry as you used to be with Queen (and me singing) brightening up your 8.25am drive round posadas. ive been thinking about why on earth someone would do that to you on my lonely bus rides to the refuge this week, and ive decided on this one eventuality:
all the other bus drivers are threatened by your sheer coolness and have got together and voted that youre not allowed your super cool bus accesories.
its awful that they would do that to you george
i hope you stand up for yourself and that you get your awesome bus fun back soon.
With Love,
Bethy (crazy foreign girl number one) x
I saw you again the other day, ive seen you a couple of times actually since my last farewell letter. ive noticed something awful has happened to you. someone has taken away all you felt that used to surround your mirrors and gear stick, and your speakers have been taken away. i can tell that youre not nearly as merry as you used to be with Queen (and me singing) brightening up your 8.25am drive round posadas. ive been thinking about why on earth someone would do that to you on my lonely bus rides to the refuge this week, and ive decided on this one eventuality:
all the other bus drivers are threatened by your sheer coolness and have got together and voted that youre not allowed your super cool bus accesories.
its awful that they would do that to you george
i hope you stand up for yourself and that you get your awesome bus fun back soon.
With Love,
Bethy (crazy foreign girl number one) x
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Chris Quotes
- I think Uno is thirty two per cent skill and sixty eight per cent luck.
- I think shampoo and conditioner will cost about twenty pesos [what are you basing that on chris?] nothing im just guessing.
- Gravity is always there.. its like.. constant.
- i dont like to read books.
- you could write a book about joseph and the technicolour dreamcoat because tehcnically no one has the copyrights.
- i think if the two kill bill films were one film it would be my favourite. but if it was one movie it would be like four hours long. maybe they could have an interval. so people could go to mcdonalds or TGI fridays
- i like to update my status say, once every fortnight so it has more impact.
- it might be illegal to drink on the street everyhwere else in England, but its definitely not in Horsham.
- (while drunk)we should tell marcelo about north and south korea
- sneezing gives me pleasure
- I think shampoo and conditioner will cost about twenty pesos [what are you basing that on chris?] nothing im just guessing.
- Gravity is always there.. its like.. constant.
- i dont like to read books.
- you could write a book about joseph and the technicolour dreamcoat because tehcnically no one has the copyrights.
- i think if the two kill bill films were one film it would be my favourite. but if it was one movie it would be like four hours long. maybe they could have an interval. so people could go to mcdonalds or TGI fridays
- i like to update my status say, once every fortnight so it has more impact.
- it might be illegal to drink on the street everyhwere else in England, but its definitely not in Horsham.
- (while drunk)we should tell marcelo about north and south korea
- sneezing gives me pleasure
One Week to go....
Sunday 13/06:
Woke up on sunday around 9ish and felt i needed to get out of the house so i went for a little walk to take photos of my memorable places around Posadas and also to track down some churros. i also sat along the costanero and read my silly book about a hearmaphrodite for a while which is oddly addictive partly because i just want to find out whether it decides its a girl or a boy. (A note for my mother, who once in a Tesco car park asked me to define the difference between transvestite and transexual, a hearmaphrodite is someone born with both lots of ... sexy bits.. as it were) (apologies if my blog has now lost its family friendly reading status)
i literally walked around posadas for an hour and a half on a churro hunt and was just short of shouting "I JUST WANT CHURROS ANYONEEEEE???????" when i gave up and came home. i sat around, showered, ate dulce de leche straight from the pot, pastries and ham rolls for lunch, siesta´d, and then Kaitlin rolled home from BA around half eight. Iffyyenia from Paraguay around nine. went to bed around ten.
Monday 14/06:
Went to the refuge and took about ten kids down to the poli. all the boys were MUY MAL playing down by the stream and playing with rubbish and not doing as they were told and making me look silly. then we went to the parque and they were even naughtier so we went back to the refuge and i hung out with tamara and then i came home and had lunch and kailtin found CHURROS so we ate some and then went to california to buy more (theyre not as good as from a bakery) and it was 10 for $8 i.e. BARGAIN.
Tuesday 15/06:
refuge again this morning and the boys who were naughty yesterday i didnt take to the parque but the ones i did take were naughty too!! climbing on other people trucks that were parked nearby and picking up sharp things and not telling me where theyre going before running off, so i told tamara and im not sure if anyones going tomorrow, if so only girls and gabi haha.
i came home and had a shower and started sort of packing jsut to see how much room im gonna have and if il have to leave much here. its looking ok so far..
Excited to be going home soon
Miss you all <3
Love,
Bethy x
Woke up on sunday around 9ish and felt i needed to get out of the house so i went for a little walk to take photos of my memorable places around Posadas and also to track down some churros. i also sat along the costanero and read my silly book about a hearmaphrodite for a while which is oddly addictive partly because i just want to find out whether it decides its a girl or a boy. (A note for my mother, who once in a Tesco car park asked me to define the difference between transvestite and transexual, a hearmaphrodite is someone born with both lots of ... sexy bits.. as it were) (apologies if my blog has now lost its family friendly reading status)
i literally walked around posadas for an hour and a half on a churro hunt and was just short of shouting "I JUST WANT CHURROS ANYONEEEEE???????" when i gave up and came home. i sat around, showered, ate dulce de leche straight from the pot, pastries and ham rolls for lunch, siesta´d, and then Kaitlin rolled home from BA around half eight. Iffyyenia from Paraguay around nine. went to bed around ten.
Monday 14/06:
Went to the refuge and took about ten kids down to the poli. all the boys were MUY MAL playing down by the stream and playing with rubbish and not doing as they were told and making me look silly. then we went to the parque and they were even naughtier so we went back to the refuge and i hung out with tamara and then i came home and had lunch and kailtin found CHURROS so we ate some and then went to california to buy more (theyre not as good as from a bakery) and it was 10 for $8 i.e. BARGAIN.
Tuesday 15/06:
refuge again this morning and the boys who were naughty yesterday i didnt take to the parque but the ones i did take were naughty too!! climbing on other people trucks that were parked nearby and picking up sharp things and not telling me where theyre going before running off, so i told tamara and im not sure if anyones going tomorrow, if so only girls and gabi haha.
i came home and had a shower and started sort of packing jsut to see how much room im gonna have and if il have to leave much here. its looking ok so far..
Excited to be going home soon
Miss you all <3
Love,
Bethy x
Sunday, 13 June 2010
Can anybody find me....
churros?
Not likely that i´ll kick my addiction in a week.
this is now all want out of life.
Love,
A Churro-Hungry Bethy x
Saturday, 12 June 2010
Panic Over
Ok so just after i posted that my dear mother emailed me this :
Dearest Darling Muchly Loved Daughter
A thousand apologies for not replying sooner. We have been busy rushing about living our lives!!
RING NOW AS AM IN NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If not I am away from tomorrow am until next Friday but Dad is home alone from tomorrow eve onwards so just let him know when to sit by the phone!!
Love Ma xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Panic Over, my parents are alive.
Have just rung mother and had a lovely chat <3
Love,
Bethy x
Dearest Darling Muchly Loved Daughter
A thousand apologies for not replying sooner. We have been busy rushing about living our lives!!
RING NOW AS AM IN NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If not I am away from tomorrow am until next Friday but Dad is home alone from tomorrow eve onwards so just let him know when to sit by the phone!!
Love Ma xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Panic Over, my parents are alive.
Have just rung mother and had a lovely chat <3
Love,
Bethy x
Last day at El Puma/Horseriding with a Hottieeee
Friday 11/06:
It was my last day at El Puma yesterday (i´m meant to do until next thursday but as there are three others there and no one at the Refuge ive decided to go there for my last week) and everyone was really lovely and wishing me luck and saying thankyou and one of the ladies there told me and Iffyyenia lucy and nancy to go over for dinner next week so we´ll see if that happens! instead of doing the usual animals i chopped some vegetables for the ñandus (ostriches) and then Romina and raul were feeding the monkeys and i went with and helped and went in one of there vages (!) but the monkey in there was a bit shy and just hid in the corner haha. then we went in the ñandu enclosure and we asked Romina if we could touch them and she said well uyes but look what happens and walked towards one and it ran off and then she got me to do it and videod me so il pop that bad boy up when i get home haha its such a funny video. then me and romina walked up to the office and i said goodbye to everyone and went over to join Lucy at the tree area. Lucy had been painting some of the building there and had back ache so i took over and we chatted and stuff and then Oscar came over with a couple of grapefruits and was like you work hard have a break even though id only been working for like twenty minutes haha. so me and lucy sat outside and ate grapefruit until iffyenia came and got lucy because they were elaving early to go to Asuncion, Paraguay. i stayed and carried on painting and when Diego and Oscar found out it was my last day they kept taking photos with me lol and then being like ok pose with the paintbrushes! and now one of you painting hahaha :) .
then nancy came and got me once shed finished the animals and we went and got the bus. i didnt anything in the afternoon but try not to eat and wait for my dinner and i watched this STUPID FILM called blindess where everyone starts randomly going blind and its just crap and never watch it.
Norma (Veronicas mum) brought my dinner over around eight and shortly after Vero came round because we were meant to go out and then i was staying over hers because we had to get up early for a horse riding lesson that her aunty had organised early the next morning. she came over and we danced around and drank and got ready togo out and then around eleven we both got really droopy eyed and we just looked at eachother like.. shall we just get chips and go to bed? so we walked to her uncles restaurant and got garlic chips and empanadas and he was talking about baileys and i told him id never had it and he gave us both a massive glass for free and it was deeeliishhhh but i couldnt finish it and he didnt make us pay for the food either bless him. on the way to Veros she told me that one of the boys that id been introduced to in the restaurant that works there gave Vero his number and was like Beth can call me anytime hahahaha .
we went to a bakery on the way home to get breakfast as we hadnt spent any money and then went home and finished our chips and went to bed.
Saturday 12/06:
we woke up early this morning and ate our pastrys and Veros aunty came and picked us up and took us over to where her children have lessons and i just thought we were hanging out and looking at the horses and potentially sitting on one at some point but then this guy comes over and was like im your teacher come pick a horse, so i told very she was in big trouble, asked verys aunty to take photo evidence of what was about to happen and put on a helmet lol.
luckily my horsey was a bit tired so couldnt be bothered to run off with me or anything and he was VERY well behaved and at first i was like i am NOT trotting under NO circumstances can you whip my horse and make it run or i will CRY and then KILL YOU. and sex pot teacher man was like ok dont worry nothing will happen, and he got us to walk around at first and then we had to ride without our feet in the stirrups and then while lying backwards with our heads on the horses butts which was very scary and then side seated and then backwards and then after that i was like alright i´ll trot so after a lot of me convincing my horse we trotted a bit and i was muy bien and didnt nearly fall off or freak out or anything. then we came home and got into Veros bed and i helped her with her english homework and then i fell asleep and then we woke up and her grandma made us lunch and then we did more homework and had another sleep and then Vero had to go in to town to doher Stewardess course so i came home and sorted all the crap out of my suitcase so that im ready to pack on wednesday/thursday and then i sent this email to my parents because i emailed them two days ago to ask when i can phone them when they will both be in and didnt get a resonse:
To: Mum home and Dad work
From: Me
Subject: URGENT
so apparently you guys only answer my emails when it has urgent in the subject bar so i thought id try that.
i sent mum an email two days ago asking when i can ring and no response? its been two whole days. mother have you not checked your emails in two whole days? have you been in some sort of GOLFING COMPETITION by any chance? im feeling terribly unloved as seeing as everyone in argentina loves me i might aswell just stay here if im potentially coming home to un-email-answering parents.
sooo
WHEN CAN I RING YOU??????
il be eagerly waiting your respone as i am home alone this weekend and have nothing else to do except be homesick.
Elizabeth Barbara Greenall (ring any bells??) xxxxx
So family members - help me out, is it just me theyre ignoring? :P
currently eating a yummy dulce de leche pastry and a cup of tea wandering what to do with the rest of my day as its only quarter to six.
Love,
A Lonely Bethy x
It was my last day at El Puma yesterday (i´m meant to do until next thursday but as there are three others there and no one at the Refuge ive decided to go there for my last week) and everyone was really lovely and wishing me luck and saying thankyou and one of the ladies there told me and Iffyyenia lucy and nancy to go over for dinner next week so we´ll see if that happens! instead of doing the usual animals i chopped some vegetables for the ñandus (ostriches) and then Romina and raul were feeding the monkeys and i went with and helped and went in one of there vages (!) but the monkey in there was a bit shy and just hid in the corner haha. then we went in the ñandu enclosure and we asked Romina if we could touch them and she said well uyes but look what happens and walked towards one and it ran off and then she got me to do it and videod me so il pop that bad boy up when i get home haha its such a funny video. then me and romina walked up to the office and i said goodbye to everyone and went over to join Lucy at the tree area. Lucy had been painting some of the building there and had back ache so i took over and we chatted and stuff and then Oscar came over with a couple of grapefruits and was like you work hard have a break even though id only been working for like twenty minutes haha. so me and lucy sat outside and ate grapefruit until iffyenia came and got lucy because they were elaving early to go to Asuncion, Paraguay. i stayed and carried on painting and when Diego and Oscar found out it was my last day they kept taking photos with me lol and then being like ok pose with the paintbrushes! and now one of you painting hahaha :) .
then nancy came and got me once shed finished the animals and we went and got the bus. i didnt anything in the afternoon but try not to eat and wait for my dinner and i watched this STUPID FILM called blindess where everyone starts randomly going blind and its just crap and never watch it.
Norma (Veronicas mum) brought my dinner over around eight and shortly after Vero came round because we were meant to go out and then i was staying over hers because we had to get up early for a horse riding lesson that her aunty had organised early the next morning. she came over and we danced around and drank and got ready togo out and then around eleven we both got really droopy eyed and we just looked at eachother like.. shall we just get chips and go to bed? so we walked to her uncles restaurant and got garlic chips and empanadas and he was talking about baileys and i told him id never had it and he gave us both a massive glass for free and it was deeeliishhhh but i couldnt finish it and he didnt make us pay for the food either bless him. on the way to Veros she told me that one of the boys that id been introduced to in the restaurant that works there gave Vero his number and was like Beth can call me anytime hahahaha .
we went to a bakery on the way home to get breakfast as we hadnt spent any money and then went home and finished our chips and went to bed.
Saturday 12/06:
we woke up early this morning and ate our pastrys and Veros aunty came and picked us up and took us over to where her children have lessons and i just thought we were hanging out and looking at the horses and potentially sitting on one at some point but then this guy comes over and was like im your teacher come pick a horse, so i told very she was in big trouble, asked verys aunty to take photo evidence of what was about to happen and put on a helmet lol.
luckily my horsey was a bit tired so couldnt be bothered to run off with me or anything and he was VERY well behaved and at first i was like i am NOT trotting under NO circumstances can you whip my horse and make it run or i will CRY and then KILL YOU. and sex pot teacher man was like ok dont worry nothing will happen, and he got us to walk around at first and then we had to ride without our feet in the stirrups and then while lying backwards with our heads on the horses butts which was very scary and then side seated and then backwards and then after that i was like alright i´ll trot so after a lot of me convincing my horse we trotted a bit and i was muy bien and didnt nearly fall off or freak out or anything. then we came home and got into Veros bed and i helped her with her english homework and then i fell asleep and then we woke up and her grandma made us lunch and then we did more homework and had another sleep and then Vero had to go in to town to doher Stewardess course so i came home and sorted all the crap out of my suitcase so that im ready to pack on wednesday/thursday and then i sent this email to my parents because i emailed them two days ago to ask when i can phone them when they will both be in and didnt get a resonse:
To: Mum home and Dad work
From: Me
Subject: URGENT
so apparently you guys only answer my emails when it has urgent in the subject bar so i thought id try that.
i sent mum an email two days ago asking when i can ring and no response? its been two whole days. mother have you not checked your emails in two whole days? have you been in some sort of GOLFING COMPETITION by any chance? im feeling terribly unloved as seeing as everyone in argentina loves me i might aswell just stay here if im potentially coming home to un-email-answering parents.
sooo
WHEN CAN I RING YOU??????
il be eagerly waiting your respone as i am home alone this weekend and have nothing else to do except be homesick.
Elizabeth Barbara Greenall (ring any bells??) xxxxx
So family members - help me out, is it just me theyre ignoring? :P
currently eating a yummy dulce de leche pastry and a cup of tea wandering what to do with the rest of my day as its only quarter to six.
Love,
A Lonely Bethy x
Thursday, 10 June 2010
Time for a Maté break? I think so./Churro Hunt/Chips Hunt
Wednesday 09/06:
El Puma was really good yesterday, this guy mario (who it turns out, is fluent in english and i havent known that this whole time!) said when we were done with the usual birds he would take us over to the tree conversation area because none of us have seen that and we can help out there for a bit. We asked what the rats were for and it turns out theyre food for the big cats and the owls. and the skanky birds are food for the big cats too. anyway so after we were done and had had a little chat with the parrot that speaks (he knows says hello thnaks to me and Lucy!!) we walked over to the tree bit and it was really nice and pretty and we met Oscar and Diego (cool name!) and we planted little sprouts of trees into littlepots so they can grow bigger and we were really quick and amazing and Oscar came out with four chairs and was like, its break time, and we sat around and drank Maté and he found out we like it with sugar but he didnt have any so he was like tomorrow? with sugar ? and we were like YES. He then took us over the other side of wehre we had been and let us plant our own big tree as a memory of when we went and we were like aww.. <3 you! and then he gave us a bag ful of mandarins because they have loads. i feel a bit more useful in the tree bit and although cleaning up poo is im sure VERY useful to the animal area its not the most fun ive ever had so we decided to come back on thursday (today). When i got back Kailtin was already home from teaching and i ate lunch (pasta) and bread and me and kaitlin deicded to go buy chips even though we werent hungry and didnt need them we were just craving them but everywhere was closed because of siesta so we settled for crisps and chocolate. Kailtin had been on a Churro hunt on the way home from school and went into four bakeries and NO ONE had churros it was a disgrace! so we were really upset about that and we generally bummed and watched TV til dinner and then after we ate, around ten, we decided the chips place would be open and even though we still werent hungry we went and got chips anyway in some very unco-ordinated outfits due to bumming around the house. we got back and ate the chips with crap loads of mayonaise and they were muy bien. i then needed something sweet for pudding so i finished off my chocolate and ate some dulce de leche straight from the pot.
you know youre getting truely fat when a summary of your day basically is just a description of everything you ate/how you came to get everything you ate.
Thursday 10/06:
Today after me and lucy had finished my usual animals we went over to the tree place and did the planting of the little sprouts again and we had a good old gossip about men and how rubbish they are and Lucy who doesnt speak any spanish went "Los Manos!" thinking she was saying Men!! when actually she was saying Hands! and Oscar got very confused and we laughed lots and i told her what shed actually said haha. after about half an hour Oscar brought us some chairs over again and was like its Maté time. and we were like ALRIGHT and bless his little cotton socks he brought us over a cup of sugar and a tray of BISCUITS and i thought they were their biscuits and that they were going to sit with us but they went back to work and i was like AW youre so SWEET this is what i call volunteering! haha. poor lucy cant eat wheat though so she couldnt eat the biscuits but i managed to eat enough for the both of us and we explained to Oscar after that she wasnt being rude she just cant eat the biscuits because they have wheat in them. after about twenty minutes oscar found the shell/casing type thing of Sicadas that they leave behind on trees when they shed their skin and then they can fly. he found two and put them in our hands and i was just saying "i dont know how to put this down wihtout being rude but ITS REALLY FREAKING ME OUT" and he got all excited about shwoing us bugs and when lucy went to the toilet they found a TARANTULA and were like oooo volunteer girl come over hereee so i went over thinking it was just more bug cases and they were like LOOK HOW EXCITING and i did a little spiders-really-freak-me-out-dance and they kept trying to bring it closer being classic boys and not realising that i was being a scaredy cat. eventually after a lot of deep breathing i did get quite close and when lucy came back i was like LOOK THEYVE GOT A TARANTULA and she got freaked out too. then, spurred on by both of our freaky spider dances they dug out a sicada that was hibernating and Oscar held it on his hand and it did a little "why the hell have you taken me out of hibernation" dance. and then they gave it a worm to eat and put it on the ground again. after that we went back towork planting our little sprouts and back to bitching about men and i found a little red dragonfly and oscar picked it up and showed it to us. then the others came and they had been sorting vegetables to feed animals and Patricia had let them stroke a leapord.. jealous!! as tomorrow is my last day there (im going to do the refuge in my last week as theres no one there and four of us with the animals) im going to ask if i can stroke the leapord!!
When i got back i ate lunch (pasta from last nights dinner) and Kaitlin had bought CHURROS so i ate two of those and had a siesta and i slept for too long again so i doubt il sleep well tonight but its the last time i have to get up stupid early so its all good in the hood. just before my siesta i ate banana with dulce de leche.
luckily i wont be able to afford to eat in greece so hopefully il come back regular size not the size of a pregnant cow.
This weekend Kaitlin is going to BA so im not really sure what im going to do without my churro buddy. I think on saturday im going horse riding with Vero´s aunty or something!
Love,
Bethy x
El Puma was really good yesterday, this guy mario (who it turns out, is fluent in english and i havent known that this whole time!) said when we were done with the usual birds he would take us over to the tree conversation area because none of us have seen that and we can help out there for a bit. We asked what the rats were for and it turns out theyre food for the big cats and the owls. and the skanky birds are food for the big cats too. anyway so after we were done and had had a little chat with the parrot that speaks (he knows says hello thnaks to me and Lucy!!) we walked over to the tree bit and it was really nice and pretty and we met Oscar and Diego (cool name!) and we planted little sprouts of trees into littlepots so they can grow bigger and we were really quick and amazing and Oscar came out with four chairs and was like, its break time, and we sat around and drank Maté and he found out we like it with sugar but he didnt have any so he was like tomorrow? with sugar ? and we were like YES. He then took us over the other side of wehre we had been and let us plant our own big tree as a memory of when we went and we were like aww.. <3 you! and then he gave us a bag ful of mandarins because they have loads. i feel a bit more useful in the tree bit and although cleaning up poo is im sure VERY useful to the animal area its not the most fun ive ever had so we decided to come back on thursday (today). When i got back Kailtin was already home from teaching and i ate lunch (pasta) and bread and me and kaitlin deicded to go buy chips even though we werent hungry and didnt need them we were just craving them but everywhere was closed because of siesta so we settled for crisps and chocolate. Kailtin had been on a Churro hunt on the way home from school and went into four bakeries and NO ONE had churros it was a disgrace! so we were really upset about that and we generally bummed and watched TV til dinner and then after we ate, around ten, we decided the chips place would be open and even though we still werent hungry we went and got chips anyway in some very unco-ordinated outfits due to bumming around the house. we got back and ate the chips with crap loads of mayonaise and they were muy bien. i then needed something sweet for pudding so i finished off my chocolate and ate some dulce de leche straight from the pot.
you know youre getting truely fat when a summary of your day basically is just a description of everything you ate/how you came to get everything you ate.
Thursday 10/06:
Today after me and lucy had finished my usual animals we went over to the tree place and did the planting of the little sprouts again and we had a good old gossip about men and how rubbish they are and Lucy who doesnt speak any spanish went "Los Manos!" thinking she was saying Men!! when actually she was saying Hands! and Oscar got very confused and we laughed lots and i told her what shed actually said haha. after about half an hour Oscar brought us some chairs over again and was like its Maté time. and we were like ALRIGHT and bless his little cotton socks he brought us over a cup of sugar and a tray of BISCUITS and i thought they were their biscuits and that they were going to sit with us but they went back to work and i was like AW youre so SWEET this is what i call volunteering! haha. poor lucy cant eat wheat though so she couldnt eat the biscuits but i managed to eat enough for the both of us and we explained to Oscar after that she wasnt being rude she just cant eat the biscuits because they have wheat in them. after about twenty minutes oscar found the shell/casing type thing of Sicadas that they leave behind on trees when they shed their skin and then they can fly. he found two and put them in our hands and i was just saying "i dont know how to put this down wihtout being rude but ITS REALLY FREAKING ME OUT" and he got all excited about shwoing us bugs and when lucy went to the toilet they found a TARANTULA and were like oooo volunteer girl come over hereee so i went over thinking it was just more bug cases and they were like LOOK HOW EXCITING and i did a little spiders-really-freak-me-out-dance and they kept trying to bring it closer being classic boys and not realising that i was being a scaredy cat. eventually after a lot of deep breathing i did get quite close and when lucy came back i was like LOOK THEYVE GOT A TARANTULA and she got freaked out too. then, spurred on by both of our freaky spider dances they dug out a sicada that was hibernating and Oscar held it on his hand and it did a little "why the hell have you taken me out of hibernation" dance. and then they gave it a worm to eat and put it on the ground again. after that we went back towork planting our little sprouts and back to bitching about men and i found a little red dragonfly and oscar picked it up and showed it to us. then the others came and they had been sorting vegetables to feed animals and Patricia had let them stroke a leapord.. jealous!! as tomorrow is my last day there (im going to do the refuge in my last week as theres no one there and four of us with the animals) im going to ask if i can stroke the leapord!!
When i got back i ate lunch (pasta from last nights dinner) and Kaitlin had bought CHURROS so i ate two of those and had a siesta and i slept for too long again so i doubt il sleep well tonight but its the last time i have to get up stupid early so its all good in the hood. just before my siesta i ate banana with dulce de leche.
luckily i wont be able to afford to eat in greece so hopefully il come back regular size not the size of a pregnant cow.
This weekend Kaitlin is going to BA so im not really sure what im going to do without my churro buddy. I think on saturday im going horse riding with Vero´s aunty or something!
Love,
Bethy x
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Saco uno fotoooooo :)
Tuesday 08/06:
Today i havent done much. i went to El Puma with the newbies this morning and we did my usual animales and then me and Iffyyenia painted a fence green and i got paint all over my hands and its still hasnt come off. i managed to get paint all over the bar on the bus from where i was holding on too so if they analyse the fingerprints im screwed! After i got home i ate lunch (bread, olive oil, cheese and chorizo) and slept, and proceeded to eat my way through argentina with Kailtin. over the last few days we have literally not stopped eating. im getting to be such a fatty. actual permanent food baby style. its shameful. I went for a walk down road in my pyjamas with the aim of them claiming that i could say ive done something with my afternoon aside from eat and sleep. but i ended up in the bakery. and bought one of every type of mini biscuit that they sell. I also popped into the fruit shop for bananas (so i get some credit?) and was served by kaitlins famous banana boyfriend and i went all giggly and gooey eyed and suddenly wished i was wearing make up and not my pyjamas but maybe normal clothes like a normal human being? idiot.
now in an internet cafe uplaoding photos
ive just spent an hour and a bit uploading all these bastarding photos. hope you like them!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2044879&id=1229883324&l=e5a9db53f6
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2043630&id=1229883324&l=cedec34df4
Love,
Bethy x
Today i havent done much. i went to El Puma with the newbies this morning and we did my usual animales and then me and Iffyyenia painted a fence green and i got paint all over my hands and its still hasnt come off. i managed to get paint all over the bar on the bus from where i was holding on too so if they analyse the fingerprints im screwed! After i got home i ate lunch (bread, olive oil, cheese and chorizo) and slept, and proceeded to eat my way through argentina with Kailtin. over the last few days we have literally not stopped eating. im getting to be such a fatty. actual permanent food baby style. its shameful. I went for a walk down road in my pyjamas with the aim of them claiming that i could say ive done something with my afternoon aside from eat and sleep. but i ended up in the bakery. and bought one of every type of mini biscuit that they sell. I also popped into the fruit shop for bananas (so i get some credit?) and was served by kaitlins famous banana boyfriend and i went all giggly and gooey eyed and suddenly wished i was wearing make up and not my pyjamas but maybe normal clothes like a normal human being? idiot.
now in an internet cafe uplaoding photos
ive just spent an hour and a bit uploading all these bastarding photos. hope you like them!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2044879&id=1229883324&l=e5a9db53f6
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2043630&id=1229883324&l=cedec34df4
Love,
Bethy x
Monday, 7 June 2010
"I have recently finished my lunch"/meat fest
Thursday 03/06:
The barbecueon thursday was really awesome, Gustavo and Julian came by and cooked all this amazing meat and had special marinades and everything for it and it was all very meaty and argentinian! Gustavo seems to enjoy speaking really quickly to see if i can understand and then finds it funny when i dont and Julian went all primal on us and cooked with his top off because of the rain. Gustavo and belen and belens "touch and go" left around one and i toddled off to bed with my ice cream and susie and julian stayed up til about four having political discussions lol.
Friday 04/06:
I didnt go to El Puma because of the rain and really hoped that someone would give the animals lots of food and water so that they had enough for over the weekend. i went to the refuge instead and took my nail polishes and had a nail painting sesh with all the kids and even most of the boys had theirs done! one of the boys even requested blue nails with pink hearts on top but i told him that was a bit too complicated for my nail painting skills. Gabi was very excited to see me of course and as i carried him to and from the Poli he decided to point out all the things he thinks he knows the word for so our conversation was a bit like this ..
Gabi: Tiaaaa
Me: Siii
Gabi : *points to car* Artooowwwww
Me: Si, Gabi.
Gabi: Tiaaa
Me: Siii
Gabi: *points to tree* arrooolllb
Me: Si Gabi muy bien.
Gabi: TIAAAAAAA
Me: SIIIIIII GABI
Gabi: babahahahahahaahaha :D
i might have to kidnap him.
Got home in the afternoon and had to say goodbye to dear Susie Q :( sad times!! Classic Susie Quote: *While being desperate to pee she screams from the toilet* "THERES A LITTLE LIZARD A LITTLE LIZARD A LITTLE LIZARD" mahahhaa
The plan was to go see a stripper at mentegato on friday but turns out he was on saturday so we went to pool and power for chris´s last night (oh how i will miss your classic quotes) and it was a bit muy bien, i was amazing at pool, and power as the usual power and they played shania twain again and it was COOL MAN. rolled home about four after an hamberguesa (chris had one in the queue on the way in.. and then two on the way home)
Saturday 05/06:
I lay in til nine and then a new girl arrived to start El Puma with me on Monday, her name is Iffyyenia (no idea if thats spelt right!!) and shes a greek girl of 28 living in london and on a round the world volunteering trip! There are two other new ladies Lucy and Nancy also doing El Puma im just hoping they can find enough work for us to do or i might have to do the refuge for my last few days.
Me and Kailtin went to Itakwa on the costanero for lunch and the new girls met us after their orientation and the manager came out and was like why arent you drinking wineee you always drink white wine with your salad!! are you crazy!! hahahaha. bless him we are totally best friends now. After lunch we walked home and siestad and then Veronica and Marcelo cooked a birthday barbecue for me which was really nice! and belen made me tell marcelo and veronica why i think marcelo is a spy which was SO EMBARASING because it was just a little joke but know they know and probably think im a crazy person. my reasons are these :
He has a big old knife in his car claiming its part of his barbecue set.
He works from like five in the morning til eleven at his mystery job to do with the state
he knows EVERYONE
We went and played pool with me Vero Marcelo Belen Iffyyenia and Kaitlin and i was amazing again but marcelo beat my team :( and then i slept at Veros house because her family were having a barbecue the next day and she wanted me to come.
Sunday 06/06:
Rolled out of bed around eleven and drank Mate ( :O ) and hung out with ehr family and it was really cute. it was a really lovely day until somebody mentioned the falklands and i thought i might die but it was ok. they just asked if they teach us in school that they are our islands and i was like well i didnt do history but yeah they do and they said they teach them that theyre theirs and it all got very awkward but then it was fine by pudding. lol. i camr home around three and had a really weird siesta and then Kailtin and Iffy got home from San Ignacio and i slept really badly :(
Monday 07/06:
Todayyy i met the girls at El Puma after they were shown around and it was World Day there and they had an event on where the army band came (?) and a load of school kids came and there were speeches and we served army hot chocolate (!) and i showed the ladies the animals that i feed and then we saw a monkey that had a strap stuck round it middle get sedated so they could cut it off it was so sad :( the lady was telling me that it had been stuck for a while and it had stoped the monkey growing to full size!
One of the ladies gave us all a lift back to the centre of posadas and the others went to the supermarket and i walked home and ate lunch and siestad weirdly again and so now im feeling sorry for myself and the fact that i probably wont be able to sleep again tonight!! :(
Love,
Bethy x
The barbecueon thursday was really awesome, Gustavo and Julian came by and cooked all this amazing meat and had special marinades and everything for it and it was all very meaty and argentinian! Gustavo seems to enjoy speaking really quickly to see if i can understand and then finds it funny when i dont and Julian went all primal on us and cooked with his top off because of the rain. Gustavo and belen and belens "touch and go" left around one and i toddled off to bed with my ice cream and susie and julian stayed up til about four having political discussions lol.
Friday 04/06:
I didnt go to El Puma because of the rain and really hoped that someone would give the animals lots of food and water so that they had enough for over the weekend. i went to the refuge instead and took my nail polishes and had a nail painting sesh with all the kids and even most of the boys had theirs done! one of the boys even requested blue nails with pink hearts on top but i told him that was a bit too complicated for my nail painting skills. Gabi was very excited to see me of course and as i carried him to and from the Poli he decided to point out all the things he thinks he knows the word for so our conversation was a bit like this ..
Gabi: Tiaaaa
Me: Siii
Gabi : *points to car* Artooowwwww
Me: Si, Gabi.
Gabi: Tiaaa
Me: Siii
Gabi: *points to tree* arrooolllb
Me: Si Gabi muy bien.
Gabi: TIAAAAAAA
Me: SIIIIIII GABI
Gabi: babahahahahahaahaha :D
i might have to kidnap him.
Got home in the afternoon and had to say goodbye to dear Susie Q :( sad times!! Classic Susie Quote: *While being desperate to pee she screams from the toilet* "THERES A LITTLE LIZARD A LITTLE LIZARD A LITTLE LIZARD" mahahhaa
The plan was to go see a stripper at mentegato on friday but turns out he was on saturday so we went to pool and power for chris´s last night (oh how i will miss your classic quotes) and it was a bit muy bien, i was amazing at pool, and power as the usual power and they played shania twain again and it was COOL MAN. rolled home about four after an hamberguesa (chris had one in the queue on the way in.. and then two on the way home)
Saturday 05/06:
I lay in til nine and then a new girl arrived to start El Puma with me on Monday, her name is Iffyyenia (no idea if thats spelt right!!) and shes a greek girl of 28 living in london and on a round the world volunteering trip! There are two other new ladies Lucy and Nancy also doing El Puma im just hoping they can find enough work for us to do or i might have to do the refuge for my last few days.
Me and Kailtin went to Itakwa on the costanero for lunch and the new girls met us after their orientation and the manager came out and was like why arent you drinking wineee you always drink white wine with your salad!! are you crazy!! hahahaha. bless him we are totally best friends now. After lunch we walked home and siestad and then Veronica and Marcelo cooked a birthday barbecue for me which was really nice! and belen made me tell marcelo and veronica why i think marcelo is a spy which was SO EMBARASING because it was just a little joke but know they know and probably think im a crazy person. my reasons are these :
He has a big old knife in his car claiming its part of his barbecue set.
He works from like five in the morning til eleven at his mystery job to do with the state
he knows EVERYONE
We went and played pool with me Vero Marcelo Belen Iffyyenia and Kaitlin and i was amazing again but marcelo beat my team :( and then i slept at Veros house because her family were having a barbecue the next day and she wanted me to come.
Sunday 06/06:
Rolled out of bed around eleven and drank Mate ( :O ) and hung out with ehr family and it was really cute. it was a really lovely day until somebody mentioned the falklands and i thought i might die but it was ok. they just asked if they teach us in school that they are our islands and i was like well i didnt do history but yeah they do and they said they teach them that theyre theirs and it all got very awkward but then it was fine by pudding. lol. i camr home around three and had a really weird siesta and then Kailtin and Iffy got home from San Ignacio and i slept really badly :(
Monday 07/06:
Todayyy i met the girls at El Puma after they were shown around and it was World Day there and they had an event on where the army band came (?) and a load of school kids came and there were speeches and we served army hot chocolate (!) and i showed the ladies the animals that i feed and then we saw a monkey that had a strap stuck round it middle get sedated so they could cut it off it was so sad :( the lady was telling me that it had been stuck for a while and it had stoped the monkey growing to full size!
One of the ladies gave us all a lift back to the centre of posadas and the others went to the supermarket and i walked home and ate lunch and siestad weirdly again and so now im feeling sorry for myself and the fact that i probably wont be able to sleep again tonight!! :(
Love,
Bethy x
Thursday, 3 June 2010
Birthday Fail/R.I.P Dear Friend
Monday 31/05:
In the morning i went to el puma and did the usual animals food/water etc. and all the workers had a meeting in the middle of the field so i ddint go coz i figured iwouldnt understand but when i looked eveyone was gone so there was no one around to ask what i should do! So i went and found a lady in the office and asked if there was anything else to do and she said to ask Raul (i think his names raul) so i did and he said there wasnt really but that on tuesday there would be and then we were just chatting and he asked how old i was and i was like eighteen, tomorrow NINETEEN and he was like woah bring a cake we are having a party :) so i was like ALRIGHT and left and went to the orphanage on the way home because it was so early and it was so cute all the kids were so happy to see me and Gabi literally ran over and jumped up and down shouting TIIAAAAA until a picked him up and he gave me a kiss on the cheek it was so sweet. i had a siesta and went into town with Susie and Kaitlin and i bought a dress to wear this week for my birthday night out and we went and got chips in Bar español and then went home for dinner not even remoltely hungry! Julian came over and was like Oh happy birthday! karaoke now? i was like julian. its monday. whats wrong with you. lol silly boy.
TUESDAY FIRST OF JUNE 2010- AKA MY NINETEENTH BIRTHDAY:
i woke up like a true ninja at seven am and didnt even wake the girls up at all and went off to the puma with a lemon pie for birthday celebrations. i got there and lots of people gave me birthday kisses and i fed and cleaned and watered the usual suspects and i decided a dear friend of mine may have died. the other day the bitch vet and her assistant took the gammy toucan away i presumed for an examination or a jab or something but it hasnt come back yet and ive not heard it squealing :( il miss you gammy!! i went and talked to raula nd told him i had pie with me and he showed me that id be painting a new cage that theyre making for some jaguars that are coming soon :) i had to hammer off some dirt from where itd been soldered together and then paint it all green and i got paint EVERYWHERE but i was happycoz it was my birthday and a bird landed on my head twice maybe because my hair looked like a nest? and it just generally followed me around lots so maybe its the toucan reincarnated? anyway i finished the painting around midday and we had pie with lots of the men and it was gone within about five seconds and everyone was very greatful and then i left and came home and went to have a siesta and susie and Kailtin had put loads of balloons in my bed and a churro it was so cute and made me smile lots. after my siesta susie and kailtin got home and we just chilled and i opened my cards from mum dad and will that were put in my suitcase and one that Elen gave me before i left. and susie bought me a card and the CD of the argentinian guy that we went to see in concert the other day :) so we just hung out and i went and called ma and pa and bought party food for when everyone came over later. Julian was already there when i got back and then vero lau gustavo belen and gina came over and we had a lovely time and played uno and drank and when everyone was there Susie brought in cake that said feliz cumple Beth and everyone sang and it was AWESOME :) around eleven we walked to Karaoke only to find that it was CLOSED so we went and sat in españa bar and had a beer and i was a bit depressed at my failure but it was fine really and we came home.
Wednesday 2/06:
As id forgot in my birthday madness to set my alarm i totally slept in until eleven that morning so i didnt go to the puma. instead a sat around all day eating around 4000 calories of CRAP and around two thirty me and kailtin went with chris to football and did the usual watching laughing and tickling cheeky children. we came home and hung out and watched TV and i ate even more food and watched Glee and Sex and the city online and then went to bed. a very uneventful day!
Thursday 3/06:
Today i went to the puma and did the usuals and then no one was around again apart from a man who wanted me to mow the lawn which i decided i didnt have the strength to do as its one massive lawn so i said id go to the refuge as it was still early. i went there for about an hour and just hung out and played tickling games and gabi was once again VERY excited to see me itl be so hard to say goodbye to him when i leave!!
Came home around half one and have been chilling :) tonight is susies last night so we are having a barbeque at seven .. excitement :D
Love,
Bethnal x
p.s. Dad, you happy now?
In the morning i went to el puma and did the usual animals food/water etc. and all the workers had a meeting in the middle of the field so i ddint go coz i figured iwouldnt understand but when i looked eveyone was gone so there was no one around to ask what i should do! So i went and found a lady in the office and asked if there was anything else to do and she said to ask Raul (i think his names raul) so i did and he said there wasnt really but that on tuesday there would be and then we were just chatting and he asked how old i was and i was like eighteen, tomorrow NINETEEN and he was like woah bring a cake we are having a party :) so i was like ALRIGHT and left and went to the orphanage on the way home because it was so early and it was so cute all the kids were so happy to see me and Gabi literally ran over and jumped up and down shouting TIIAAAAA until a picked him up and he gave me a kiss on the cheek it was so sweet. i had a siesta and went into town with Susie and Kaitlin and i bought a dress to wear this week for my birthday night out and we went and got chips in Bar español and then went home for dinner not even remoltely hungry! Julian came over and was like Oh happy birthday! karaoke now? i was like julian. its monday. whats wrong with you. lol silly boy.
TUESDAY FIRST OF JUNE 2010- AKA MY NINETEENTH BIRTHDAY:
i woke up like a true ninja at seven am and didnt even wake the girls up at all and went off to the puma with a lemon pie for birthday celebrations. i got there and lots of people gave me birthday kisses and i fed and cleaned and watered the usual suspects and i decided a dear friend of mine may have died. the other day the bitch vet and her assistant took the gammy toucan away i presumed for an examination or a jab or something but it hasnt come back yet and ive not heard it squealing :( il miss you gammy!! i went and talked to raula nd told him i had pie with me and he showed me that id be painting a new cage that theyre making for some jaguars that are coming soon :) i had to hammer off some dirt from where itd been soldered together and then paint it all green and i got paint EVERYWHERE but i was happycoz it was my birthday and a bird landed on my head twice maybe because my hair looked like a nest? and it just generally followed me around lots so maybe its the toucan reincarnated? anyway i finished the painting around midday and we had pie with lots of the men and it was gone within about five seconds and everyone was very greatful and then i left and came home and went to have a siesta and susie and Kailtin had put loads of balloons in my bed and a churro it was so cute and made me smile lots. after my siesta susie and kailtin got home and we just chilled and i opened my cards from mum dad and will that were put in my suitcase and one that Elen gave me before i left. and susie bought me a card and the CD of the argentinian guy that we went to see in concert the other day :) so we just hung out and i went and called ma and pa and bought party food for when everyone came over later. Julian was already there when i got back and then vero lau gustavo belen and gina came over and we had a lovely time and played uno and drank and when everyone was there Susie brought in cake that said feliz cumple Beth and everyone sang and it was AWESOME :) around eleven we walked to Karaoke only to find that it was CLOSED so we went and sat in españa bar and had a beer and i was a bit depressed at my failure but it was fine really and we came home.
Wednesday 2/06:
As id forgot in my birthday madness to set my alarm i totally slept in until eleven that morning so i didnt go to the puma. instead a sat around all day eating around 4000 calories of CRAP and around two thirty me and kailtin went with chris to football and did the usual watching laughing and tickling cheeky children. we came home and hung out and watched TV and i ate even more food and watched Glee and Sex and the city online and then went to bed. a very uneventful day!
Thursday 3/06:
Today i went to the puma and did the usuals and then no one was around again apart from a man who wanted me to mow the lawn which i decided i didnt have the strength to do as its one massive lawn so i said id go to the refuge as it was still early. i went there for about an hour and just hung out and played tickling games and gabi was once again VERY excited to see me itl be so hard to say goodbye to him when i leave!!
Came home around half one and have been chilling :) tonight is susies last night so we are having a barbeque at seven .. excitement :D
Love,
Bethnal x
p.s. Dad, you happy now?
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