oi i just came here to look at this blog and its almost had 10,000 view what the fuck??
who is reading this? when did this happen??? im so confused
Mar 31, 2010
Jan 31, 2010
adios amigos
well, its our second last day and i fiunally have a chance to write in this blog ........... since i last wrote we were in argentina staying at a friend of a friend of friend hahaahahha
they were really nice guy
was totallz straight edge vegan punk tatoo ist
mainly in buenos aires we just got drunk at night, and every day we woke up and tried to walk to this vegan cafe that sold vegan chicken burgers.
and everyday it was closed or sold out.
ummm..... some guy i never met and have no mutual friends with on facebook asked me to go on a beach camping trip with him, i said no but later regretted it intensely.
it was him and 3 girls and they had a van and fucking quad bikes which they rode on the sand dunes.....
so ooooo much regret.
we went to a techno club in buenos aires and that cunt guy from aqua was tehre.......mmmm.....and.....also buenos aires is realy really REALLY HOT and HUMID
oh yeah and the elvis of south america "SANDRO" who is seriously just like evlis and as famous as evis and same career tracjectory etc...yeah he died and there was an open casket for FIVE DAYS in the like national congress.
and the open casket was OPEN ie you could go and look at him dead, every day 24-7........like....and tehre was thousands of ppl on the street constantly lining up to go leave flowers and look at him and cry etc etc
24-7 is so fucked and wack, we went there at 2.30am in teh morning and there was all these cops and ppl on the street trying to get in to see him.
wack.
also there is a chocolate bar KING in argentina called RICARDO FORTE. he is the grandson of the like...willly wonka of argentina. and when the grandpa died he inheritied the company and went from being a scrawny white pussy to a orange balloon muscle puff greasy haired tribal tattooed sleaze ball OVERNIGHT.
and now he PAYS every tv to have cameo performances eg argentina neighbours, argentina bert newton etc etc he just walks onto the fucken set and ppl cheer and he says something stupid and then walks off.
he is really rich and he has his OWN CARTOON about being a like player and rich and shit, its like an adult cartoon, its fukced. and he is on the cover of half the mags all the time.
anyway argentina,
we hung out with the punks everyday and talked shit and tried to get the burgers......
not much!!!!!!!!! i kind of went crazy i really REALLY wanted to get out of the city
...
also every wehre we went we accidentyly kept ending up in these like bulk places so i would be like, excuse me, can i please buy this hairbrush and they would be like NO.
YOU MUST BUY 50 !!!
and it happend like....5 times a day every day.
it was hard....and so wack man like who the fuck is buying so many of everything that it necessitates EVERY SHOP being the 50plus bulk store.
and they just looked like regular shops like they werent like a big warehosue or anything....
and there was 10liter bottles of pepsi max for sale!!! TEN LITERS hahahahahahhaa
and no street dogs"!!!
AND THEN
we came to chile!!!
its been soooooo fun and cool and amazing here, and we have been staying with daniela DADALU, who is fucking awesome, we went to heaps of parties, a music label launch party, we went to this harbour beach town with all rainbow houses and shit, went to the filming of tv show, DJed at a bunch of clubs aahahaha!!! i dunno just like had fun you know,
it was cool !!!!!
im kind of tired of writing in here now, ill be back in like 4 days (time difference fucks up dates)
BYEEEEEE
xoxoxoooxo
kati
they were really nice guy
was totallz straight edge vegan punk tatoo ist
mainly in buenos aires we just got drunk at night, and every day we woke up and tried to walk to this vegan cafe that sold vegan chicken burgers.
and everyday it was closed or sold out.
ummm..... some guy i never met and have no mutual friends with on facebook asked me to go on a beach camping trip with him, i said no but later regretted it intensely.
it was him and 3 girls and they had a van and fucking quad bikes which they rode on the sand dunes.....
so ooooo much regret.
we went to a techno club in buenos aires and that cunt guy from aqua was tehre.......mmmm.....and.....also buenos aires is realy really REALLY HOT and HUMID
oh yeah and the elvis of south america "SANDRO" who is seriously just like evlis and as famous as evis and same career tracjectory etc...yeah he died and there was an open casket for FIVE DAYS in the like national congress.
and the open casket was OPEN ie you could go and look at him dead, every day 24-7........like....and tehre was thousands of ppl on the street constantly lining up to go leave flowers and look at him and cry etc etc
24-7 is so fucked and wack, we went there at 2.30am in teh morning and there was all these cops and ppl on the street trying to get in to see him.
wack.
also there is a chocolate bar KING in argentina called RICARDO FORTE. he is the grandson of the like...willly wonka of argentina. and when the grandpa died he inheritied the company and went from being a scrawny white pussy to a orange balloon muscle puff greasy haired tribal tattooed sleaze ball OVERNIGHT.
and now he PAYS every tv to have cameo performances eg argentina neighbours, argentina bert newton etc etc he just walks onto the fucken set and ppl cheer and he says something stupid and then walks off.
he is really rich and he has his OWN CARTOON about being a like player and rich and shit, its like an adult cartoon, its fukced. and he is on the cover of half the mags all the time.
anyway argentina,
we hung out with the punks everyday and talked shit and tried to get the burgers......
not much!!!!!!!!! i kind of went crazy i really REALLY wanted to get out of the city
...
also every wehre we went we accidentyly kept ending up in these like bulk places so i would be like, excuse me, can i please buy this hairbrush and they would be like NO.
YOU MUST BUY 50 !!!
and it happend like....5 times a day every day.
it was hard....and so wack man like who the fuck is buying so many of everything that it necessitates EVERY SHOP being the 50plus bulk store.
and they just looked like regular shops like they werent like a big warehosue or anything....
and there was 10liter bottles of pepsi max for sale!!! TEN LITERS hahahahahahhaa
and no street dogs"!!!
AND THEN
we came to chile!!!
its been soooooo fun and cool and amazing here, and we have been staying with daniela DADALU, who is fucking awesome, we went to heaps of parties, a music label launch party, we went to this harbour beach town with all rainbow houses and shit, went to the filming of tv show, DJed at a bunch of clubs aahahaha!!! i dunno just like had fun you know,
it was cool !!!!!
im kind of tired of writing in here now, ill be back in like 4 days (time difference fucks up dates)
BYEEEEEE
xoxoxoooxo
kati
Jan 21, 2010
Jan 2, 2010
50,000 doggweilers
we saw this guy walking down the street the other day with heaps of dogs on leads, all rottweilers and pitbulls and stuff. and when cubby pointed him out to me the guy got REALLY mad and started yelling at us in spanish, like, "what's your FUCKEN PROBLEM,!! can't i just walk my 6,000 attack dogs in PEACE!!?!? GOD!!!!!!!""
Dec 31, 2009
COUNTRY KNOWHOW
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oi man, FUCK pushing a fucken wheelbarrow of ROCKS up a mountain (something we had to do) ...
we should have done what this smart c*nt does and pulled it on a dirt bike!!!!!!!!!!!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxox
shelagh/horsey eye view
check it owttttttt
looks so gooooooodddd
bolivia issss soooooo pretttttttttttttttttttttyy !!!
BUT
there is alot of intense biting insects biting you the WHOLE TIME, and we both only brought ONE pair of shorts to fucken south america so have never washed them AND are covered in bites from doing stupid stuff like this, riding horses into the jungle haha....note julia and the guy in front both have long pants .... hehe
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! SILLY BIRD
WHAT A DICKHEAD !!!!
LOOK HOW ITS SITTING, ITS LIKE FUCKING UP ITS LEGS AND THAT....
FUCKEN COCKHEAD MAN
Dec 30, 2009
buenos aires has no street dogs but it's still a pretty ok city.
we ate dinner at amazing $6 all u can eat vegetariano restaurant last night. six bux!!! all you can eat!!! vegetariano!!!!!!
hmmmm the bus ride to argentina, holy shit, 8 hours at the stupid border... and then the bus was stopped every ten minutes after that so the army could get on n examine our passports and point at kati and i and very sternly say "australia.. kangaroo!" at us. oh and rummage through everyone's bags fifty fucken times.
meanwhile, trucks full of drugs.! just blithely driving past and waving to the army dudes. also our bus driver kept coming up and angrily demanding to drink our precious water we bought with our only pesos, but he would only do it to me n kati, stupid jerk. this was all our payback for accidentally getting stoned in santa cruz and missing our proper bus with air conditioning and toilets and stuff. oh plussss the roads in argentina are so hilariously potholed, combined with our leaky broken bus, we were literally being bounced out of our seat for the last 12 hours or so. sore butt!!hahahaha
oh yeah at the bus terminal when we were waiting for two hours for the bus and this guy had taken our bags off somewhere and we didnt know how to ask where they were,, kati was really stoned and was talking heaps how she wished she could have her favourite food, some delicious plain white rice and delicious pasta with nothing on it and plain hot chips with nothing on them..and then this lady walked up and handed us exactly that! except with bonus chicken on top! for free. it was total magic.
santa cruz was best city so far.. 2 whole days where there was no obligations, no people we had to meet up with, or organising travel shit, or waking up to work on the farm,,, just wandering the massive markets n eating pizza and making friends with people on the street... on xmas day we traveled from the jungle to santa cruz and ended up getting a lift with this sweet family who gave us cake and softdrinks! and we hung out in the main town square and bought each other wack light up swords that make really annoying screechy noises. and playing swordfighting all the way home. it was a good xmas!
can you believe i had food poisoning for THREE WEEKS!!! (but im better now) .three fucken weeks!! on the farm they made every kind of tea trying to work out what it was, n i drank so many different plants that didn't work, and i was scared of having to go to the hospital cos i was super weak and fucked from not retaining any nutrients or water or anythingggg but yeah, all cured now and i am SO grateful to have health back!!!!! (the final cure ended up being a combo of horsetail and a leathery green leaf i've completely forgotten the name of....)
but yeah so heaps of time was wasted for me by being sick and i couldnt do as much of the physical stuff on the farm, but i got to do fun stuff like learn how to make soy meat, soymilk, tofu.. everything from picking the beans, separating them by beating them in sacks, washing, sorting, milling them,, it was really cool, and extra satisfying to serve the finished meal to everyone. also i went for a horse trip up a volcano, i was kinda scared of being shit at horseriding since i hadn't rode since i was little, but we did heaps of trotting n cantering and i only squealed a bit! buttt get this, in the middle of remote bolivian jungle, at the top of the volcano,,.. they'd built a fucking golf resort!! with swimming pool and fourwheel drives and ostriches wandering the greens. it was the most surreal thing. the rest of the volcano was completely wild though, and vicente our guide showed us heaps of edible fruits and berries, and medicinal plants, including one that is used to induce miscarriage. then we raced on the horses back thru the jungle, being smashed in the face by low hanging branches and laughing in terror.
hmmmm the bus ride to argentina, holy shit, 8 hours at the stupid border... and then the bus was stopped every ten minutes after that so the army could get on n examine our passports and point at kati and i and very sternly say "australia.. kangaroo!" at us. oh and rummage through everyone's bags fifty fucken times.
meanwhile, trucks full of drugs.! just blithely driving past and waving to the army dudes. also our bus driver kept coming up and angrily demanding to drink our precious water we bought with our only pesos, but he would only do it to me n kati, stupid jerk. this was all our payback for accidentally getting stoned in santa cruz and missing our proper bus with air conditioning and toilets and stuff. oh plussss the roads in argentina are so hilariously potholed, combined with our leaky broken bus, we were literally being bounced out of our seat for the last 12 hours or so. sore butt!!hahahaha
oh yeah at the bus terminal when we were waiting for two hours for the bus and this guy had taken our bags off somewhere and we didnt know how to ask where they were,, kati was really stoned and was talking heaps how she wished she could have her favourite food, some delicious plain white rice and delicious pasta with nothing on it and plain hot chips with nothing on them..and then this lady walked up and handed us exactly that! except with bonus chicken on top! for free. it was total magic.
santa cruz was best city so far.. 2 whole days where there was no obligations, no people we had to meet up with, or organising travel shit, or waking up to work on the farm,,, just wandering the massive markets n eating pizza and making friends with people on the street... on xmas day we traveled from the jungle to santa cruz and ended up getting a lift with this sweet family who gave us cake and softdrinks! and we hung out in the main town square and bought each other wack light up swords that make really annoying screechy noises. and playing swordfighting all the way home. it was a good xmas!
can you believe i had food poisoning for THREE WEEKS!!! (but im better now) .three fucken weeks!! on the farm they made every kind of tea trying to work out what it was, n i drank so many different plants that didn't work, and i was scared of having to go to the hospital cos i was super weak and fucked from not retaining any nutrients or water or anythingggg but yeah, all cured now and i am SO grateful to have health back!!!!! (the final cure ended up being a combo of horsetail and a leathery green leaf i've completely forgotten the name of....)
but yeah so heaps of time was wasted for me by being sick and i couldnt do as much of the physical stuff on the farm, but i got to do fun stuff like learn how to make soy meat, soymilk, tofu.. everything from picking the beans, separating them by beating them in sacks, washing, sorting, milling them,, it was really cool, and extra satisfying to serve the finished meal to everyone. also i went for a horse trip up a volcano, i was kinda scared of being shit at horseriding since i hadn't rode since i was little, but we did heaps of trotting n cantering and i only squealed a bit! buttt get this, in the middle of remote bolivian jungle, at the top of the volcano,,.. they'd built a fucking golf resort!! with swimming pool and fourwheel drives and ostriches wandering the greens. it was the most surreal thing. the rest of the volcano was completely wild though, and vicente our guide showed us heaps of edible fruits and berries, and medicinal plants, including one that is used to induce miscarriage. then we raced on the horses back thru the jungle, being smashed in the face by low hanging branches and laughing in terror.
buenos aires BUENOS AIRES
YAY
we made it to buenos aires...i think it means... fresh good air... a breath of fresh air.
its really REALLY different to bolivia. its like fucken europe or someshit. heaps bougie....
i remember emilys good advice and looked up some vegetarian restaurants on happycow.com and we went to this AMAZIN vegetarian all you can eat place last night, for 6 australian dollars, and heaps of it was vegan, they had stuff like brown rice, and stuffed capsicums, its was soooo good and special and amazing.
um, yeah so only been here one day, we arrived yesterday after a really really REALLY long bus...um..two nights and three days... i dunno how long htat is?? but long
and what happend was our orginal bus left without us from Santa cruz so the the guy we boguht the tickets off, just put us on some other bus... that was like 2 hours late and we were standing in this massive sandpit, which was the bus stop...waitng and watiing and and when it came i was like oh no cuz it looked like a fucken piece of shit bus,
but we were so out of it we just wanted to get on it, cuz earlier in the day we were hanging out making bracelets with some crazy guy we*d met the day before. so we sitting tehre making hte bracelets and im thinking, this guys a fucken tree wizard i dont wanna be around him anymore and then !!
some cool punx showed up and just started talking to us, and were like all covered in anti fa tatts and anarchist garden tatts and i was like whoo hooo and i was so stoked cuz i was like shit i really really dont look like a punk but these guys arent being fucken fucked like australian punx how if you dont dress like a "PUNK" then your not "PUNK" what bullshit.
anyway we started talking about all sorts of stuf and got really excited and i was sooo stoked and they were traveelling thru south america and they were from colombia nad venuzuala and they were so REAL and FUN and it was awesome. they invited us back to there house and we hung out and got reallllllllllly drunk on cahmpagne that just tasted like fucken apple juice?? and stoned and listened to music and they showd us cool tricks they could do and amzing wood carvings they made, and then we were like OH SHIT the bus, but we werent too worried cuz every bus so far ..... hasnt even SHOWN Up for like 1 hour at least, and then taken like 2 hours to leave
but when we got tehre to the bus station it had left!!!
anyway the bus was fucken hot. no air con
windows didnt open.
was like 37 degrees outside.
the whole bus was like a sauna it felt really like, discusting, to be so sweaty with so many other grose sweaty ppl for so long.
the only time ppl got a chance to cool down was once when we stopped to go to the "toilet" and the building wasnt a tiolet just some wierd locked shed so everyone lied on the ground under this one tap and got sprayed by it like a lieing down shower, and then got back on the bus.
no movies, or music. just lots of near crashes. oh and a flood. and a few breakdowns. and we had to stand in the full sun at the border for 7 hours...
its was pretty fucked.
funny.
full on.
hahahaha.
it didnt fuck with me the way the other buses have tho cuz i was just really used it and prepared for total shit storm annihilations you know?
now in buenos aires but its like intense peak times cuz its like holidays and news yers so there is like NO hostels free!!!! we were almost completely stranded !!!!!!!
finally this guy helped us and called like every place in BA and now we are staying in this hostel that is so expensieve and bougie, the TIOLET HAS A BIDDAY!!!! haahahah what the fuck.,
and there is a fuckhead in our room he came home at 4am and kept trying to put his arm around shelagh and i woke up and he was touching my legs!!!! so fucked!!!!!
i have contacted HEAPs of ppl on couch surfing, hopefully we can stay with someone from there soon cuz i cant afford to fucken be here hahahaa
oh yeah so we left the farm, i was really sad i thougth i was gonna cry, i mean it was REALLY REALLY hard there sometimes, and i dont think it was exactly shelaghs cup of tea, but it was a really beautiful place and i really am gonna miss Nova.
also in the last week a cool girl called Julia from uk came and she was like the third muscateer, the first traveller i met in south america who wasnt a fuckhead!! and really onto it and cool, and had been thru alot so far in south america, held prisoner by the peruvian army in the amazon, and then later stayed in the major of the armies house!! and fucken robbed at gun point in guatelmala. lots of stuff like that,....but yeah a really cool girl, had lived in Namibia for 8 months and was so cool to meet an foriegtner who was not a shithead, and we talked alot and laughed alot, we talked about the racism in tourism, and she told me alot of stories about fuckheads and asked alot of questions of indigenous oppression in australia.
when i lefft, NOva gave me a painting he did, it was really cool and he took me to his house (he lives seperately to the rest of the family) it was so cool it was RIGHHHHT on the river, you could hear the water crashing over the rocks really loud, but not too loud........and one wall was just a giant window (well....a hole, covered in fly mesh) so the air was fresh and amazing. and inside there was just a bed. some paintings, a fkn awesome collection of animals bones, the harry potter books, and a MASSIVE upside down pentagram sculpure, in 3D !!!! it was soo oooo cool !!!
and it had a holder inside for a candle.
we made chocolate pancakes for everyone on xmas day (xmas is one day earlier in bolivia) and the boys set off like, millions of fireworks. that day we went into that village to use the internet i bought a massive bag of fireworks for them and HOLY SHIT, no wonder fireworks are illegal in australia, they are so full on and dangerous.
but reallllly pretty and there are so many that do so many different cool things!!!!!
on our last night we got our tarot cards read, my reading was pretty boring ahahha its was pretty funny tho cuz im so.....i dunno worried person i guess, so my question was like, what bad things are gonna happen next year that i should be ready for, what should i look out for, ...something like that.
and my reading was like, next year all that will matter to you is school and the only thing you should look out for is a relationship that will be a person trying to get in the way!! ahahhahahahahahahaahaha
if THATS the worst thing. i cant even imagine having a life like that.......
hahahahahahahahahaha
seriously tho, i hope next year is really really good. for me, and for everyone.
when we walked over the indiana jones bridge back to the mainland i was so sad i was thinking shit....am i ever gonna come here again. i really want to.....its such an amazing place. there are some things that are so fucked but overall i really liked it.
i thought i would learn heaps there, but i didnt really at all,
it was sometimes a weird environment where i was just...i dunno its hard to explain but basically, i wish i had never ever ever said i studied permaculture cuz then like, i was like under this pressure ...like i was a threat, or an intimidation, or some wierd bullshit....
and would be put on the spot with questions that i had no idea about, like "you know this plant XXX" and i would be like, "..um no i dont think so" and they would like scoff and be like, ugh you study permaculture and you dont even know it and just walk off and ignore me for the rest of the day, like a punishment or something,
and lots of stuff like that.......it was really hard, at first i would just feel such a sting, like hot eyes you know, feeling so stupid.....and trapped its like, even if your a student and WANT to learn, you are still meant to already know everything and be so fucking smart and if your not then why should anyone waste there time teaching you anything.......
once he asked me about growing ...this plant.....i cant remember what it was....but it was really really tropical.. in melbourne and i was like, no i dont think that would grow in melbourne its not the right climate, and he was like, you should make it grow there and i was like, well....i dont think that is the best way to use my energy ...focussing on growing something like that...when i could grow things that will do well there... and he was like NO its a waste to not develop a breed that can survive there!!! and wouldnt talk to me again after that.....
and that kind of thing happend all the time, just like, heaps of shutting down... but there was heaps of stuff i wanted to ask about and felt really unsafe to talk about, like, there was no NO zoning at all, the food was all growing about 12-15minute walk away, so when your cooking and you realise you forgot the parsely...... its really shit.
and there is no mulch, on anything.....
i dont mean that to sound critical it was just an observation and i really wanted to ask about it but i got so intensely shut down, i just ended up not engaging in anything like critical thought or talking about anything to do with gardens, plants, insects, water, etc etc cuz it would always just end in me being an idiot and it wasnt worth it.
once i mentioned something about peak oil and he was like, Do you mean PETROL ??? oil is the word for cooking.
and i was like....ummm...sure...yeah, petrol
and he was like petrol and coal are good things to use and its better then nuclear power.
and i was like, totally, but like, there running out, and theres better options then both of them, and he was like, there is no better options.
it was raelly hard place, in that sense, you know?? its like ...the place is this amazing dream, but you have to work really, really fucking hard every day, and you have to be really subordinate. and i am happy to not be in charge, but it can be confusing when ppl tell you things that are the opposite of what other teachers have told you.
by the end i was just like, you know what, no body knows anything.
its all just bullshit theorys and ideas, and no one is right.
fuck all these intense permaculture men and this intimidation bullshit.
no matter what i do, its fucked in someones eyes hahahhaah
so im just choose what i rekon is the "right" course of action for each seperate situation.....and ignore the fucken firing squad cuz in the end, your still gonna get shot ....
yeah.
if that makes sense.
i learnt heaps from hanging out with nova tho, we dug HEAPS of swales of swales togehter, like..... 3 really really long ones per day, on top of our other jobs, and he showed me heaps of irragtion stuff he had developed by himself. his dad would argue him and say it wouldnt work but they all did. we had levels or anything.........but it still all worked..... once when we were digging something level he was like, we^ll see waht the water has to say about this, water talks!!
and i was like.... wowwwww you are so cool.
water talks!!! such a cool thing to say.
and he has NO permaculture knowlege, never read any books, didnt even know what a swale was. (the word)
all the field were irrigated by a spring halfway up one of the mountains. to direct the water we would have to go up and wade into the muddy spring past knee depth and dig up clay and fill sand bags, it was HARD WORK but really fun too !! lots of jokes and sotries to pass the time .... hahaha
also i learnt how to make REAL TAMALES!!!! im really stoked and i cant wait to get back to australia to make them!!!
also i made handmade peanut butter, tofu, harvested shit loads of honey and went out at midnight CAUGHT native bees (i think i put some photos up of it already) and made heaps of other crap like dream catchers etc
santa cruz, is where we went afterward, it was so amzing, like a tropical town in bolivia really really chilled out, hot and stick but not too bad cuz there was allways a breeze. we were staying at a place that had all like parrots and BABY TOUCANS that fucken are so cute and amazing and look like plastic toys hahaha like sooo not real.
also we found an italian restaurent that made the BEST BEST spicy vegetarian pasta, lots of halepenos, it was sooo good !!!!!
ugh im still covered in the most intense like cross section of insect bites ever, and still have ticks that i havent been able to get rid of yet... i think i wanna try to go to the doctor tomoro or something cuz having ticks this long isnt good!!!!!! me abnd shelagh took photos of our legs, when or IF we ever see computers in internet cafes that are capable of putting photos onto, we will upload. so far ALL the computers here are so old they dont even have cd drives. only floppy disc. so... no usb you know... and they are reaaaaaally slow and its really expeno to use tha net......
i was sad to leave santa cruz, but we wanted to get to beunos aires before new years so we had to leave. if anyone is goign to bolivia i really really reccomend it, its so chilled out, and much better then cochabamba!!!! (but maybe not as cheap??)
also it was the first place i have been to that has women cops.
ok now buenos aires....
today i went to the post office and sent this massive bag of wool that has been fucken pissing me off. i didnt wanna carry it anymore!!!! im so glad its sent. buenos aires post offfice is so much cheaper then bolivia!! but it took three hours to be served.
thats a looooong time to wait. i seriously thought i was gonna piss and shit my pants hahahaha
but everything takes a fucken long time in south america...im almost used to it i think.....
like when we were leaving the jungle farm, and we were standing out on the road to hitch a ride into the city, i saw someone inthe distance, RUNNING and i was like, shit man, wtf...shelagh look at that, that person is fucken running man.......i havent seen anyone run the whole time in south america and she was like....yeah...wierd... and then they just dissapeared into the jungle!"!!! ahhahahaahhahhahaa
PEACE and happy new years!!!!!!
i miss sooooo many people right now, its so sad, please everyone if you have time please right me an email teling me what your doing and some gossip or anything !!!!!!!!!
xoxoxxoxoxoxooxxooxx
oxoxoxoxxoxoxoox
kati
we made it to buenos aires...i think it means... fresh good air... a breath of fresh air.
its really REALLY different to bolivia. its like fucken europe or someshit. heaps bougie....
i remember emilys good advice and looked up some vegetarian restaurants on happycow.com and we went to this AMAZIN vegetarian all you can eat place last night, for 6 australian dollars, and heaps of it was vegan, they had stuff like brown rice, and stuffed capsicums, its was soooo good and special and amazing.
um, yeah so only been here one day, we arrived yesterday after a really really REALLY long bus...um..two nights and three days... i dunno how long htat is?? but long
and what happend was our orginal bus left without us from Santa cruz so the the guy we boguht the tickets off, just put us on some other bus... that was like 2 hours late and we were standing in this massive sandpit, which was the bus stop...waitng and watiing and and when it came i was like oh no cuz it looked like a fucken piece of shit bus,
but we were so out of it we just wanted to get on it, cuz earlier in the day we were hanging out making bracelets with some crazy guy we*d met the day before. so we sitting tehre making hte bracelets and im thinking, this guys a fucken tree wizard i dont wanna be around him anymore and then !!
some cool punx showed up and just started talking to us, and were like all covered in anti fa tatts and anarchist garden tatts and i was like whoo hooo and i was so stoked cuz i was like shit i really really dont look like a punk but these guys arent being fucken fucked like australian punx how if you dont dress like a "PUNK" then your not "PUNK" what bullshit.
anyway we started talking about all sorts of stuf and got really excited and i was sooo stoked and they were traveelling thru south america and they were from colombia nad venuzuala and they were so REAL and FUN and it was awesome. they invited us back to there house and we hung out and got reallllllllllly drunk on cahmpagne that just tasted like fucken apple juice?? and stoned and listened to music and they showd us cool tricks they could do and amzing wood carvings they made, and then we were like OH SHIT the bus, but we werent too worried cuz every bus so far ..... hasnt even SHOWN Up for like 1 hour at least, and then taken like 2 hours to leave
but when we got tehre to the bus station it had left!!!
anyway the bus was fucken hot. no air con
windows didnt open.
was like 37 degrees outside.
the whole bus was like a sauna it felt really like, discusting, to be so sweaty with so many other grose sweaty ppl for so long.
the only time ppl got a chance to cool down was once when we stopped to go to the "toilet" and the building wasnt a tiolet just some wierd locked shed so everyone lied on the ground under this one tap and got sprayed by it like a lieing down shower, and then got back on the bus.
no movies, or music. just lots of near crashes. oh and a flood. and a few breakdowns. and we had to stand in the full sun at the border for 7 hours...
its was pretty fucked.
funny.
full on.
hahahaha.
it didnt fuck with me the way the other buses have tho cuz i was just really used it and prepared for total shit storm annihilations you know?
now in buenos aires but its like intense peak times cuz its like holidays and news yers so there is like NO hostels free!!!! we were almost completely stranded !!!!!!!
finally this guy helped us and called like every place in BA and now we are staying in this hostel that is so expensieve and bougie, the TIOLET HAS A BIDDAY!!!! haahahah what the fuck.,
and there is a fuckhead in our room he came home at 4am and kept trying to put his arm around shelagh and i woke up and he was touching my legs!!!! so fucked!!!!!
i have contacted HEAPs of ppl on couch surfing, hopefully we can stay with someone from there soon cuz i cant afford to fucken be here hahahaa
oh yeah so we left the farm, i was really sad i thougth i was gonna cry, i mean it was REALLY REALLY hard there sometimes, and i dont think it was exactly shelaghs cup of tea, but it was a really beautiful place and i really am gonna miss Nova.
also in the last week a cool girl called Julia from uk came and she was like the third muscateer, the first traveller i met in south america who wasnt a fuckhead!! and really onto it and cool, and had been thru alot so far in south america, held prisoner by the peruvian army in the amazon, and then later stayed in the major of the armies house!! and fucken robbed at gun point in guatelmala. lots of stuff like that,....but yeah a really cool girl, had lived in Namibia for 8 months and was so cool to meet an foriegtner who was not a shithead, and we talked alot and laughed alot, we talked about the racism in tourism, and she told me alot of stories about fuckheads and asked alot of questions of indigenous oppression in australia.
when i lefft, NOva gave me a painting he did, it was really cool and he took me to his house (he lives seperately to the rest of the family) it was so cool it was RIGHHHHT on the river, you could hear the water crashing over the rocks really loud, but not too loud........and one wall was just a giant window (well....a hole, covered in fly mesh) so the air was fresh and amazing. and inside there was just a bed. some paintings, a fkn awesome collection of animals bones, the harry potter books, and a MASSIVE upside down pentagram sculpure, in 3D !!!! it was soo oooo cool !!!
and it had a holder inside for a candle.
we made chocolate pancakes for everyone on xmas day (xmas is one day earlier in bolivia) and the boys set off like, millions of fireworks. that day we went into that village to use the internet i bought a massive bag of fireworks for them and HOLY SHIT, no wonder fireworks are illegal in australia, they are so full on and dangerous.
but reallllly pretty and there are so many that do so many different cool things!!!!!
on our last night we got our tarot cards read, my reading was pretty boring ahahha its was pretty funny tho cuz im so.....i dunno worried person i guess, so my question was like, what bad things are gonna happen next year that i should be ready for, what should i look out for, ...something like that.
and my reading was like, next year all that will matter to you is school and the only thing you should look out for is a relationship that will be a person trying to get in the way!! ahahhahahahahahahaahaha
if THATS the worst thing. i cant even imagine having a life like that.......
hahahahahahahahahaha
seriously tho, i hope next year is really really good. for me, and for everyone.
when we walked over the indiana jones bridge back to the mainland i was so sad i was thinking shit....am i ever gonna come here again. i really want to.....its such an amazing place. there are some things that are so fucked but overall i really liked it.
i thought i would learn heaps there, but i didnt really at all,
it was sometimes a weird environment where i was just...i dunno its hard to explain but basically, i wish i had never ever ever said i studied permaculture cuz then like, i was like under this pressure ...like i was a threat, or an intimidation, or some wierd bullshit....
and would be put on the spot with questions that i had no idea about, like "you know this plant XXX" and i would be like, "..um no i dont think so" and they would like scoff and be like, ugh you study permaculture and you dont even know it and just walk off and ignore me for the rest of the day, like a punishment or something,
and lots of stuff like that.......it was really hard, at first i would just feel such a sting, like hot eyes you know, feeling so stupid.....and trapped its like, even if your a student and WANT to learn, you are still meant to already know everything and be so fucking smart and if your not then why should anyone waste there time teaching you anything.......
once he asked me about growing ...this plant.....i cant remember what it was....but it was really really tropical.. in melbourne and i was like, no i dont think that would grow in melbourne its not the right climate, and he was like, you should make it grow there and i was like, well....i dont think that is the best way to use my energy ...focussing on growing something like that...when i could grow things that will do well there... and he was like NO its a waste to not develop a breed that can survive there!!! and wouldnt talk to me again after that.....
and that kind of thing happend all the time, just like, heaps of shutting down... but there was heaps of stuff i wanted to ask about and felt really unsafe to talk about, like, there was no NO zoning at all, the food was all growing about 12-15minute walk away, so when your cooking and you realise you forgot the parsely...... its really shit.
and there is no mulch, on anything.....
i dont mean that to sound critical it was just an observation and i really wanted to ask about it but i got so intensely shut down, i just ended up not engaging in anything like critical thought or talking about anything to do with gardens, plants, insects, water, etc etc cuz it would always just end in me being an idiot and it wasnt worth it.
once i mentioned something about peak oil and he was like, Do you mean PETROL ??? oil is the word for cooking.
and i was like....ummm...sure...yeah, petrol
and he was like petrol and coal are good things to use and its better then nuclear power.
and i was like, totally, but like, there running out, and theres better options then both of them, and he was like, there is no better options.
it was raelly hard place, in that sense, you know?? its like ...the place is this amazing dream, but you have to work really, really fucking hard every day, and you have to be really subordinate. and i am happy to not be in charge, but it can be confusing when ppl tell you things that are the opposite of what other teachers have told you.
by the end i was just like, you know what, no body knows anything.
its all just bullshit theorys and ideas, and no one is right.
fuck all these intense permaculture men and this intimidation bullshit.
no matter what i do, its fucked in someones eyes hahahhaah
so im just choose what i rekon is the "right" course of action for each seperate situation.....and ignore the fucken firing squad cuz in the end, your still gonna get shot ....
yeah.
if that makes sense.
i learnt heaps from hanging out with nova tho, we dug HEAPS of swales of swales togehter, like..... 3 really really long ones per day, on top of our other jobs, and he showed me heaps of irragtion stuff he had developed by himself. his dad would argue him and say it wouldnt work but they all did. we had levels or anything.........but it still all worked..... once when we were digging something level he was like, we^ll see waht the water has to say about this, water talks!!
and i was like.... wowwwww you are so cool.
water talks!!! such a cool thing to say.
and he has NO permaculture knowlege, never read any books, didnt even know what a swale was. (the word)
all the field were irrigated by a spring halfway up one of the mountains. to direct the water we would have to go up and wade into the muddy spring past knee depth and dig up clay and fill sand bags, it was HARD WORK but really fun too !! lots of jokes and sotries to pass the time .... hahaha
also i learnt how to make REAL TAMALES!!!! im really stoked and i cant wait to get back to australia to make them!!!
also i made handmade peanut butter, tofu, harvested shit loads of honey and went out at midnight CAUGHT native bees (i think i put some photos up of it already) and made heaps of other crap like dream catchers etc
santa cruz, is where we went afterward, it was so amzing, like a tropical town in bolivia really really chilled out, hot and stick but not too bad cuz there was allways a breeze. we were staying at a place that had all like parrots and BABY TOUCANS that fucken are so cute and amazing and look like plastic toys hahaha like sooo not real.
also we found an italian restaurent that made the BEST BEST spicy vegetarian pasta, lots of halepenos, it was sooo good !!!!!
ugh im still covered in the most intense like cross section of insect bites ever, and still have ticks that i havent been able to get rid of yet... i think i wanna try to go to the doctor tomoro or something cuz having ticks this long isnt good!!!!!! me abnd shelagh took photos of our legs, when or IF we ever see computers in internet cafes that are capable of putting photos onto, we will upload. so far ALL the computers here are so old they dont even have cd drives. only floppy disc. so... no usb you know... and they are reaaaaaally slow and its really expeno to use tha net......
i was sad to leave santa cruz, but we wanted to get to beunos aires before new years so we had to leave. if anyone is goign to bolivia i really really reccomend it, its so chilled out, and much better then cochabamba!!!! (but maybe not as cheap??)
also it was the first place i have been to that has women cops.
ok now buenos aires....
today i went to the post office and sent this massive bag of wool that has been fucken pissing me off. i didnt wanna carry it anymore!!!! im so glad its sent. buenos aires post offfice is so much cheaper then bolivia!! but it took three hours to be served.
thats a looooong time to wait. i seriously thought i was gonna piss and shit my pants hahahaha
but everything takes a fucken long time in south america...im almost used to it i think.....
like when we were leaving the jungle farm, and we were standing out on the road to hitch a ride into the city, i saw someone inthe distance, RUNNING and i was like, shit man, wtf...shelagh look at that, that person is fucken running man.......i havent seen anyone run the whole time in south america and she was like....yeah...wierd... and then they just dissapeared into the jungle!"!!! ahhahahaahhahhahaa
PEACE and happy new years!!!!!!
i miss sooooo many people right now, its so sad, please everyone if you have time please right me an email teling me what your doing and some gossip or anything !!!!!!!!!
xoxoxxoxoxoxooxxooxx
oxoxoxoxxoxoxoox
kati
Dec 20, 2009
NIGHTBEES
do you like to be covered in biting and stinging bees that cut thru clothes and attack you?? come join us
ummmm
look at this cute littel girl!!!!! she is the youngest child on the farm, her name is ginger, and the puppy is called gia.
the horses
see the red one in the back??? it took 2 hours, a bunch of ticks, heaps of blood and scratches, 2 swamps and ALOT of jungle, AND big sticks to stop it from stomping our heads, just to catch it. hahahhaahahah stupid asshole
post african killer bee honey harvest
carefully scraping the wax from the comb to collect the honey.......im so stung hahaha
DIRTBIKIN WITH THE WORLD'S ANGRIEST WOMAN
my bike ran out of fuel halfway down the track &the woman made her walk all the way back
booya!! jungle and hsit
im staying on a farm in the jungle, its INTENSE.
beautiful,
AMAZING.
holy shit.
i have been doing alot of work with bees, i harvested honey from 3 hives of african killer bees,
got stung horribley it was SO painful and omg, very very scary to so intesnely attacked, you know you have to stay so calm cuz the more freaked out you get the more angry they get and they are realllly really aggreesive bees, oh, the stings i mean, i couldnt do anything the next day it hurt so bad and the skin, was burning hot to touch, i mean, for other ppl, they would touch it and be like, holy shit.
carrying massive logs on my shoulder thru the jungle for firewood, digging irrigation trenches. catching native bees and there hives at midnight. got some called hair cutter bees. they have no sting but they BITE and there bite is so strong it cuts hair, they are fucking harsh, but nothing compared to the killer bees. they hair cutters bit me heaps and cut my hair and crawled in my pants and cut my pubes hahaha
catching horses .............very hard, running thru swamps and jungle with ropes and setting traps, then using taking horses down the moutain, shoveelilng sand into sand bags and hauling them up onto the horse and then back up the mountain again.
swimming in the river every day.
working til 7.30 pm
no dinner, only on lunch. very hard.
sometimes i htink, i cant do this anymore but i just keep going, and i always break on thru to the other side.
hundreds of bugs, so many ticks, the children pick them off me every day. scratches, infections. hahahahahaha
only a few more days.
today i came into town on the back of truck thru the mountains soooo beautiful
and bought HEAPS of fireworks im gonna set them off with the Nova, the 14 year old boy here, the son of the farmer, hahha Nova he is the fucken eppitomy of peter pans LOST BOYS, fucken harsh, wild, violent, crazy, free, strong, prankster, fearless, honourable, kind, hilarious, ........hahha. we fight ALOT but only physically and ive never had to do that before hahaaha but its actually really cool to bash the shit out eachother and then bust our arses doing really fucking hard work hahahaha.
there are glow bugs here they come out at 8pm every night its the most amazing thing red and green and yellow flashing like signals its sooo beautiful.
beautiful,
AMAZING.
holy shit.
i have been doing alot of work with bees, i harvested honey from 3 hives of african killer bees,
got stung horribley it was SO painful and omg, very very scary to so intesnely attacked, you know you have to stay so calm cuz the more freaked out you get the more angry they get and they are realllly really aggreesive bees, oh, the stings i mean, i couldnt do anything the next day it hurt so bad and the skin, was burning hot to touch, i mean, for other ppl, they would touch it and be like, holy shit.
carrying massive logs on my shoulder thru the jungle for firewood, digging irrigation trenches. catching native bees and there hives at midnight. got some called hair cutter bees. they have no sting but they BITE and there bite is so strong it cuts hair, they are fucking harsh, but nothing compared to the killer bees. they hair cutters bit me heaps and cut my hair and crawled in my pants and cut my pubes hahaha
catching horses .............very hard, running thru swamps and jungle with ropes and setting traps, then using taking horses down the moutain, shoveelilng sand into sand bags and hauling them up onto the horse and then back up the mountain again.
swimming in the river every day.
working til 7.30 pm
no dinner, only on lunch. very hard.
sometimes i htink, i cant do this anymore but i just keep going, and i always break on thru to the other side.
hundreds of bugs, so many ticks, the children pick them off me every day. scratches, infections. hahahahahaha
only a few more days.
today i came into town on the back of truck thru the mountains soooo beautiful
and bought HEAPS of fireworks im gonna set them off with the Nova, the 14 year old boy here, the son of the farmer, hahha Nova he is the fucken eppitomy of peter pans LOST BOYS, fucken harsh, wild, violent, crazy, free, strong, prankster, fearless, honourable, kind, hilarious, ........hahha. we fight ALOT but only physically and ive never had to do that before hahaaha but its actually really cool to bash the shit out eachother and then bust our arses doing really fucking hard work hahahaha.
there are glow bugs here they come out at 8pm every night its the most amazing thing red and green and yellow flashing like signals its sooo beautiful.
Dec 10, 2009
WEST PAPUAN INDEPENDANCE DAY DEC 1
MADE A FLAG AND TOOK IT TO PARLIMENT HOUSE IN SANTIAGO CHILE, ALSO MADE FLYERS WITH INFO IN SPANISH ABOUT WHATS GOING ON.
THANKS SO MUCH TO DANIELA FOR ALL HER HELP AND TO DIEGO TOO !!!!!!
XOXOXOXOOXOXOOX
making a flag from scratch
i had the flu and totaly sun stroked but there is NO EXCUSES. totalz made it (spent two whole days searching all of santiago for hte paint!!!!! )
WASHING THE FLOOR
so we went to cellar gallery to suspend our west papua flag from the outside window, they were cleaning the floor and getting ready for an exhibition. its an amazing space, two stories art gallery, with the (brisbane 610) old school empty show vibe, totez beautiful art everywhere. they have big parties there tooo (obviously)
WHAT THE FUCK
shelagh says : cant even... work out.. what the fuckk,, umm seriously,,,, cum on, white power, really???? these fucken things were for sale in some weird metal shop, right next to the iron maiden and nofx patches
i say...... HOW AND WHY.... what the FUCK MAN what the FUCK so fucked up
FUCKEN BULLSHIT BUS MOVIES
hahahahhahahahahhahahahhaha we thought they were bad. we had no idea what bad busses where to come
...WITH A LITTLE OF THIS
look at that awesome Bio graph....can you believe it. i dont think you can see how big that is, but like,,,,,its...MASSIVE. like, so massive. like a fucking mountain. anyway. this was one of hte most interesting htings we saw on the 28 hour bus ride....
BORDER CROSSING
look at this amazing line between chile and bolivia. the bus stopped here for 5 hours in the freezing cold and waited for the sun to come up. then we had to get out and do the customs thing and the bus almost drove off with us
Dec 9, 2009
Someone told me that the local name for the street dogs is kíltro and that it literally means "raceless", as in, the dogs belong to no one. i'm so into that! we went up a mountain and i met some tiny raceless kittens and we watched a storm together, we were so high on altitude it was hard to breathe.
It's really weird, since we've been here, the amount of times we've been mugged, assaulted, hassled on the street, pickpocketed, groped,, oh yeah it's all bullshit!!! everyone warns you so much about all the intense shit that's gonna happen "in countries like that" but seriously. i mean, obviously we're being sensible and aware of our surroundings etcc but compared to any australian CBD on a saturday night our experience has been pretty tame so far.
i think it's kind of like something i said to kati, you dress/act like a backpacker you're gonna get treated like one. there was people at our hostel getting threatened/attempted muggings when they were out, and you just think, well you're walking around in three quarter khaki cargo pants and geek backpack with ya lonely planet waving around, no shit you're a target, in any country. what's up with the international backpacker dress code?
shit, point form before i forget things.....
in cochabamba the cops ride around on old kids bmxs, and they ask for our photo. kati reckons we could sweet talk them into doing anything for us, they're all about 16.
there's a million billion sweet old motorbikes inthis town. i'm gaggin to get one and do the rest of our travelling on it...
the block we're on, it has about 5 funeral parlours on it, they all sell mostly baby-sized coffins. the other day we walked past and there was a group of women buying one,, two of the women had their own babies on their backs. it's really confronting seeing these things and not really being connected, just passing through...
i got gastro and ate nearly our whole supply of gastro-stop.
today kati counted all the way to 50 in spanish counting fridge magnets.
also, it's ACTUALLY an international rule that the simpsons must come on at 6pm every weeknight no matter where you are. this made my bedridden day!
argghhh i cant remember anything else! what have we been doinggggg?????haha
It's really weird, since we've been here, the amount of times we've been mugged, assaulted, hassled on the street, pickpocketed, groped,, oh yeah it's all bullshit!!! everyone warns you so much about all the intense shit that's gonna happen "in countries like that" but seriously. i mean, obviously we're being sensible and aware of our surroundings etcc but compared to any australian CBD on a saturday night our experience has been pretty tame so far.
i think it's kind of like something i said to kati, you dress/act like a backpacker you're gonna get treated like one. there was people at our hostel getting threatened/attempted muggings when they were out, and you just think, well you're walking around in three quarter khaki cargo pants and geek backpack with ya lonely planet waving around, no shit you're a target, in any country. what's up with the international backpacker dress code?
shit, point form before i forget things.....
in cochabamba the cops ride around on old kids bmxs, and they ask for our photo. kati reckons we could sweet talk them into doing anything for us, they're all about 16.
there's a million billion sweet old motorbikes inthis town. i'm gaggin to get one and do the rest of our travelling on it...
the block we're on, it has about 5 funeral parlours on it, they all sell mostly baby-sized coffins. the other day we walked past and there was a group of women buying one,, two of the women had their own babies on their backs. it's really confronting seeing these things and not really being connected, just passing through...
i got gastro and ate nearly our whole supply of gastro-stop.
today kati counted all the way to 50 in spanish counting fridge magnets.
also, it's ACTUALLY an international rule that the simpsons must come on at 6pm every weeknight no matter where you are. this made my bedridden day!
argghhh i cant remember anything else! what have we been doinggggg?????haha
cochabamba
hey so me and shelagh are in cochabamba in bolivia, you can google it.
its really high, and i keep getting heaps dizzy ahhaa...
well we have been here awhile now, um5 days i think but we havent done much cuz we have both been really really sick!!! shelagh and me are taking turns with food poisoning. .. .. . not so fun. lukily (and unluckily) our room we are staying in has a tv with cable so we have serously just lied in bed sleeping and being sick and watching MORE terribel movies haahahaha oh shit.
um, we went to the biggest jesus statue in the world or something, like you know in romeo and juliet that big jesus statue?? like that. at a the top of a mountain we had to catch those like little cable car things up the moutain cuz we couldnt just climb it cuz the altitude here makes us so diszzy like if we walk up 3 steps we have to have rest ahaha.....
anyway, it was scary going up in the thingys, but at the top it was soooo amazing and beautiful and that day jesus was closed so we couldnt climb him but we just chilled out there and, wow the mountains here, holy shit, they are just, amazing, indescribale like WTF there so big and everywhere and stunning.
have i mentioned our bus ride here? i thinñk i blogged about the bus ride to arica, but the bus rise to cochabamba was NUTS there was fucking hole in the wall in the toielt and shelagh nearly fell out and died when she went to it at 3 am cuz...for some reason, the bus leaves at 1am?? and it was such a scary ride, we were going up some HUGE ass mountains, thousands and thousands of meters high and bus driver was speeding like a mother fucker and we almost crashed off the cliffs like serisly 70 times, and kept almost hitting trucks aaarrgh i was so freaked out, no luxourious movies for us just constant near death, i prayed to jah, god, and mother earth to spare us.
ha ha.
full on.
yeah so, now here we are cochabamba, the city of eternal spring, its up so high its frickin micro climate and it has ETERNAL SPRING:
pretty cool.
the biggest markets in south america are here, keep getting lost in them.
some stuff here is so cheap and then i mean, my spanish is so shit, and i dont haggle so some things same price as australia ahahah, this woman charged me like 7 australian dollars for a packet of bizcuts and a bottle of sprite the other night but realy, i mean thats how much it would cost at seven eleven anyway in melbourne.
so i am dieing to get out of the fucken city omg man i cant take it cities are sooo intense rahhhhh!!!
i just did all this stuff and organised all this shit so we can go to santa cruz tomoro and from there to a permaculture farm in the jungel, thank GOD cuz NO wwoof places are replying to me at all its been like weeks and weeks so ive kind of given up hope on it, its really annoying cuz i guess i baaased alot of my plans of times being here on doing that and now its becomeing more and more clear its not an option and im trying to salvage and make new destinies that arent shit...ha..
after we get to the farm there is no internet so maybe i wont be on the internet again for awhile.
did i mention we are really sick?? ¿ ¿¿ ¿ cant wait to get healthy ......
so after farm, im not sure what gonna do. we are meant to go to argentina but if you can google maps and see the distance between buenos aires and santa cruz in bolivia ....its twice the distance of sydney to perth and bussing that will be SO SHIT haha like not even worht it
maybe get a flight but there like 400 dollars,
or we can come back to cochabamba, then up to la paz (thats stil in bolivia) , from there we can go to COCOCABANA (like the song???) and lake titikaka....... and then if have money could try to cross the border and go to Cusco in Peru........its all realy um, daunting and im not sure what is the right descision, cuszco is where machu picchu and jungle and stuff is.,....... but we have a free flight from buenos aires (argentina) to santiago (chile) that we can use, so i keep thinking oh i dont wanna waste that.
its hard to think clearly when your sick.
i def wanna go back to chile and see my friends, me and daniela were speaking about going to the south of chile cuz she has family home there we can all stay it would be cool i think ...
also i made a friend in chile called diego and we spoke about making some guerilla gardens in chile and i still wanna do that and i am really stoked on it.
hmmm.....having troubel keeping this up to date....... lots on my mind i dont know what to do!!!!!!
i orginally wanted to go to peru but at this point im not sure if its possible and it seems like its really harrrrd to organise once im there, ugh i cant be bothered writing in here anymore hope it wasnt boring blah blah blah
love everyone so much
xoxoxoxoxooxooxoxoxox
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
oxoxoxox
its really high, and i keep getting heaps dizzy ahhaa...
well we have been here awhile now, um5 days i think but we havent done much cuz we have both been really really sick!!! shelagh and me are taking turns with food poisoning. .. .. . not so fun. lukily (and unluckily) our room we are staying in has a tv with cable so we have serously just lied in bed sleeping and being sick and watching MORE terribel movies haahahaha oh shit.
um, we went to the biggest jesus statue in the world or something, like you know in romeo and juliet that big jesus statue?? like that. at a the top of a mountain we had to catch those like little cable car things up the moutain cuz we couldnt just climb it cuz the altitude here makes us so diszzy like if we walk up 3 steps we have to have rest ahaha.....
anyway, it was scary going up in the thingys, but at the top it was soooo amazing and beautiful and that day jesus was closed so we couldnt climb him but we just chilled out there and, wow the mountains here, holy shit, they are just, amazing, indescribale like WTF there so big and everywhere and stunning.
have i mentioned our bus ride here? i thinñk i blogged about the bus ride to arica, but the bus rise to cochabamba was NUTS there was fucking hole in the wall in the toielt and shelagh nearly fell out and died when she went to it at 3 am cuz...for some reason, the bus leaves at 1am?? and it was such a scary ride, we were going up some HUGE ass mountains, thousands and thousands of meters high and bus driver was speeding like a mother fucker and we almost crashed off the cliffs like serisly 70 times, and kept almost hitting trucks aaarrgh i was so freaked out, no luxourious movies for us just constant near death, i prayed to jah, god, and mother earth to spare us.
ha ha.
full on.
yeah so, now here we are cochabamba, the city of eternal spring, its up so high its frickin micro climate and it has ETERNAL SPRING:
pretty cool.
the biggest markets in south america are here, keep getting lost in them.
some stuff here is so cheap and then i mean, my spanish is so shit, and i dont haggle so some things same price as australia ahahah, this woman charged me like 7 australian dollars for a packet of bizcuts and a bottle of sprite the other night but realy, i mean thats how much it would cost at seven eleven anyway in melbourne.
so i am dieing to get out of the fucken city omg man i cant take it cities are sooo intense rahhhhh!!!
i just did all this stuff and organised all this shit so we can go to santa cruz tomoro and from there to a permaculture farm in the jungel, thank GOD cuz NO wwoof places are replying to me at all its been like weeks and weeks so ive kind of given up hope on it, its really annoying cuz i guess i baaased alot of my plans of times being here on doing that and now its becomeing more and more clear its not an option and im trying to salvage and make new destinies that arent shit...ha..
after we get to the farm there is no internet so maybe i wont be on the internet again for awhile.
did i mention we are really sick?? ¿ ¿¿ ¿ cant wait to get healthy ......
so after farm, im not sure what gonna do. we are meant to go to argentina but if you can google maps and see the distance between buenos aires and santa cruz in bolivia ....its twice the distance of sydney to perth and bussing that will be SO SHIT haha like not even worht it
maybe get a flight but there like 400 dollars,
or we can come back to cochabamba, then up to la paz (thats stil in bolivia) , from there we can go to COCOCABANA (like the song???) and lake titikaka....... and then if have money could try to cross the border and go to Cusco in Peru........its all realy um, daunting and im not sure what is the right descision, cuszco is where machu picchu and jungle and stuff is.,....... but we have a free flight from buenos aires (argentina) to santiago (chile) that we can use, so i keep thinking oh i dont wanna waste that.
its hard to think clearly when your sick.
i def wanna go back to chile and see my friends, me and daniela were speaking about going to the south of chile cuz she has family home there we can all stay it would be cool i think ...
also i made a friend in chile called diego and we spoke about making some guerilla gardens in chile and i still wanna do that and i am really stoked on it.
hmmm.....having troubel keeping this up to date....... lots on my mind i dont know what to do!!!!!!
i orginally wanted to go to peru but at this point im not sure if its possible and it seems like its really harrrrd to organise once im there, ugh i cant be bothered writing in here anymore hope it wasnt boring blah blah blah
love everyone so much
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Dec 4, 2009
dadalu !!!!!!!!!
i got to meeet dadalu !!!!!
amazing grrrl artist musician .... totally been obessed with her music for like 5 years!!!! her real name is daniela and she isss soooo amazing and so nice,
amazing grrrl artist musician .... totally been obessed with her music for like 5 years!!!! her real name is daniela and she isss soooo amazing and so nice, she invited us to stay at her house and gave up her bed for us!!!!!! and her family made us the BEST MEALS we have eated in all of chile!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
the BEST MEALS
serisouly, all tehre is to eat here is fucking chips and hot dogs. its so cool to eat home dinners. THANKYOU DANIELA I LOVE YOU BABE!!!!!!!!!!!! 
we had a big bbq party and drunk this chilean drink which is wine with strawberries and chilemora (local tropical fruit) !!!!! this is pic of me and NEVE, danielas best friend, at the bbq......
she took us to these amazing markets wehre we both bought cheap rip off sneakers!!!
check it out!!! its the spits brand shoes!!!!!! woooohooooo i love you kt spitthis is shelagh, danielas brohter honey, and neve in santiago.
and we went to this like, fake harajuku kind of place called megs !!! wher you buy like, 500 hair clips for like 2 dollars but like, i dont want 500 hair clips hahaha i just want one, but they wont sell you one, you have to buy ALL of them. ahhaa fuckkkkk
i had so much fun with her she is totally amazing and cool, and on our last night we went to this aother really amazing grrrl Neve´s house and made thai food for daniela, her brother jani (pronouned HONEY!!!! soo cool) and Lupi (producer from Juila rose, danielas other band) and Neve. it was really cool cuz they havent had it before and i wanted to cook typical aussie food for them but like.....all i could think of was meat pies or toad in hole and they both suxx so i thought...well...hahaha...thai food is actually raelly typical ahahaha.
everyone says typical here HEAPS; so i now i keep thinking it and saying it, like its really typical. its a lyrical meme.
oh i just had a cold shower in arica (meggs you would be so proud), its cost $1.20
oh also on this other day we were walking to meet daniela and we heard this loud music and we had stumbled across the NATIONAL CHEERLEADING COMP FINALS !!!! it was so amazing they all did the most eçincreidble performances to the MOST INTENSE TECHNO EVER with crazy sound effects that went off every time they threw someone up the in the air
im on a BUS
OK
I JUST GOT OFF A ..............UMM......28 hour bus!!!
hahahahaa
it was really long, like so long. like longer then a whole day and whole night.
we were sitting next to this couple who i think...they were like the equivelant of chilean bogans, and they had phones that played music really loud out speakers and played really loud reggaeton .....
if you dont know, reggaeton is this style of music that is REALLY big here, its playing in every shop and all the teenagers listen to it, its like skanky music hahahaha. here is a video of some reggaeton. click that link
they had it on for ages until the batteries ran out hahahahaha it was really....annoying and hard.
so the bus played movies, like on small tv and guess what? they played BACK TO BACK MOVIES for almost hte whole trip!!!!
i totaly just watched, over ten movies in a row. ahaha
they were all dubbed in spanish, and were all action movies.
the first was a movie with steven seagull and JA RULE, i never realised how hot ja rule is until i had to stare at his bratty face for two hours, and the whole movie is just about them being the "new" alcatraz and shooting guns and trying to get out.
the next movie was called something like, THE CASTLE SIEGE part II. and it was like set in medieval english times, but the lead character was an "white aussie bloke" with a boomarang and he used the boomrang to like fight the evil sorcerer in the castle ahahhahahaa it was so weird and the characters all had different accnets like some had american some australian and some british.....it was so weird.
there was THE KNOWING with ...i dont remembe his name, that dickhead. um, he is in faceoff and also that movie that the googoo dolls song is from, anyway its terrible its about god and fate and like the 6th sense and contact and phenomenon mixed together.
there was a movie about jewish ppl hiding in the forest from the nazis during the war
there was a videomix of 128 hits of the 80s with like 30 seconds from each song, mixed together into a one hour mix, that they played on repeat for FIVE HOURS !!!!! seriously
ARE YOU BORED of reading about these movies yet??? imagine watchign them....!!!
icant even remember the other ones. oh yeah they played australia. the baz lurhman one.
we only stopped TWICE in 28 hours
hahahhaa
the view was crazy, it was desert the WHOLE TIME, but not like central australia desert, it was like, giant mountains that are made of yellow and brown rock, with nothing on them, just desert. and we were driving on these crazy raods that are like, carved into the massive rock mountains........for 28 hours... i dont have any pics but shelagh took some and when i get hold of them i will put them here.
so amazing, can you believe it.
now we are in arica, which is this amazing dsert town in the north north north of chile.
we met up with Neve´´s friend Ricardo, an anarchist whose studying organic agriculture and now he is gonna take us to the beach!!!
wooohoooooooooooooooooooo
THANKYOU SO MUCH TO NEVE AND DANIELA WHO HELPED US TO GET A BUS, AND TO JANI FOR TAKING US TO THE STATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PEACE
I JUST GOT OFF A ..............UMM......28 hour bus!!!
hahahahaa
it was really long, like so long. like longer then a whole day and whole night.
we were sitting next to this couple who i think...they were like the equivelant of chilean bogans, and they had phones that played music really loud out speakers and played really loud reggaeton .....
if you dont know, reggaeton is this style of music that is REALLY big here, its playing in every shop and all the teenagers listen to it, its like skanky music hahahaha. here is a video of some reggaeton. click that link
they had it on for ages until the batteries ran out hahahahaha it was really....annoying and hard.
so the bus played movies, like on small tv and guess what? they played BACK TO BACK MOVIES for almost hte whole trip!!!!
i totaly just watched, over ten movies in a row. ahaha
they were all dubbed in spanish, and were all action movies.
the first was a movie with steven seagull and JA RULE, i never realised how hot ja rule is until i had to stare at his bratty face for two hours, and the whole movie is just about them being the "new" alcatraz and shooting guns and trying to get out.
the next movie was called something like, THE CASTLE SIEGE part II. and it was like set in medieval english times, but the lead character was an "white aussie bloke" with a boomarang and he used the boomrang to like fight the evil sorcerer in the castle ahahhahahaa it was so weird and the characters all had different accnets like some had american some australian and some british.....it was so weird.
there was THE KNOWING with ...i dont remembe his name, that dickhead. um, he is in faceoff and also that movie that the googoo dolls song is from, anyway its terrible its about god and fate and like the 6th sense and contact and phenomenon mixed together.
there was a movie about jewish ppl hiding in the forest from the nazis during the war
there was a videomix of 128 hits of the 80s with like 30 seconds from each song, mixed together into a one hour mix, that they played on repeat for FIVE HOURS !!!!! seriously
ARE YOU BORED of reading about these movies yet??? imagine watchign them....!!!
icant even remember the other ones. oh yeah they played australia. the baz lurhman one.
we only stopped TWICE in 28 hours
hahahhaa
the view was crazy, it was desert the WHOLE TIME, but not like central australia desert, it was like, giant mountains that are made of yellow and brown rock, with nothing on them, just desert. and we were driving on these crazy raods that are like, carved into the massive rock mountains........for 28 hours... i dont have any pics but shelagh took some and when i get hold of them i will put them here.
so amazing, can you believe it.
now we are in arica, which is this amazing dsert town in the north north north of chile.
we met up with Neve´´s friend Ricardo, an anarchist whose studying organic agriculture and now he is gonna take us to the beach!!!
wooohoooooooooooooooooooo
THANKYOU SO MUCH TO NEVE AND DANIELA WHO HELPED US TO GET A BUS, AND TO JANI FOR TAKING US TO THE STATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PEACE
Nov 30, 2009
the par ty
we went to a pa rty last night , and RANO djed at it, and he played the BANGS song, let me take you to the movies!!!!!
and Pandies Gimme more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
soooo amazing and eve ryone danced
xxoxoooox
oxoxoxoxoxoxo
xooxoxo
and Pandies Gimme more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
soooo amazing and eve ryone danced
xxoxoooox
oxoxoxoxoxoxo
xooxoxo
more pix
we met up with Constanza, who is Rano´s girlfriend and she took us to a really fun uni end of semeester street party it was awesome, and the uni was so cool and covered in awesome graffiti and art and colours ,we drunk this thing called earthquakes which is wine with pineapple ice cream, i ts like a spider smoothie thing.
check out this awesome FIST paste up !!!!!
seriously ive never seen so many anarchist symbols in all my life since i came here, the streets are covered!!!!
check out this awesome FIST paste up !!!!!
seriously ive never seen so many anarchist symbols in all my life since i came here, the streets are covered!!!!
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