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.