some camping stuff

the campppsite

hiking to the campsite!!
the sunset
the crewww haha
walking back
our dinner, yummm.

yeah so they are out of order, but these are some pictures from camping. ít was gorgeous and freezing but really amazing. i want to go again!!

9 days, holy criekies!

hola amigos! en nueve dias me voy a volver a estados unidos. no quiero ir porque me encanta Argentina. pero extraño todos de USA, tambien. voy a extrañar mis amigos aqui, y quiero volver... pero no se cuando. quizas en un año? en realidad, quiero visitar Argentina durante el verano, porque ahora es un poquito frio y en el verano me dicen que esta buenismo! bueno.. aca esta algo de mis fotos.. disfrute mi amores.. tengo ganas de verse pronto!!

my birthday present from my family, hehe

my mate!!!!!! (from my friends)

my birthday present from my friends!

asaaaaaaaaad0
the lake

do you want a translation? pfftt, okay. here ya go:

hey guys! in 9 days i´m going to return to the United States. I don´t want to go because I love Argentina. but I also miss everything in the USA. I´m really going to miss my friends here, and I want to come back, but I don´t know when. maybe in a year? Actually, I want to visit in the summertime, because right now it´s a little cold and they tell me that in the summer it´s amazing. well, here are some of my photos. Enjoy them, my loves! I really want to see all of you soon!!

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I´ve been pretty sick the last couple of days. It really sucks being away from home and feeling vulnerable. When I called mom to ask what medication to take and if I should start antibiotics, she told me that Boma passed away. I really feel like I should be home for the funeral to be there for dad and the rest of the family. I never really got to know my grandma, but as stacey said, she had a lust for life and travel that was incomparable. So this is probably what she would have wanted, probably what she´d wish for her grandkids. Still, I feel rather lonely here. Even when I was at school and I got really sick, I get really emotional because I´m so used to being taken care of by my two doctor parents. haha. It´s different when you´re away from home and what´s familiar. then again, this seems so familiar now. I´ve never been out of the country for this long, not even on a trip in the country (besides boston..) and I am so used to it now. before this year I´ve never known anyone really relatively close to me that has passed away. And all of a sudden this year there have been 3. I guess it´s kind of a shock, puts things into perspective. But with Boma, it´s somewhat of a relief. It´s been a long time now and she held out, but we all knew it was coming sooner or later. Now we can stop holding our breath. I just want to be home and be there while everyone exhales.

tengo tos!

okay, so. here´s a re-cap of my birthday, since I still haven´t put the pictures up yet. I had an asado, and all my friends came. My host parents got me a cake full of coconut and dulce de leche (mmmmmm). My friends bought me an amazing mate cup, it´s gorgeous and carved out of wood. we had wine and beer, and then I tought them how to play flip cup. hehe. It was a good time. So I started teaching on tuesday. let´s just say I have many 14 year old boyfriends, now. hahaha, seriously. I get love letters a lot. it´s very funny. overall they´re all really nice and interested in what the USA is like. today, one of the kids asked me how I felt on 9/11. I realized that it must be weird for them to meet someone who is about their age, who lives in a country they hear about everyday! they asked me about Iraq, and Bush, and if the public schools are like the public school they are in. then they always ask me if I have a boyfriend, hahaha. I´ve learned that English is HARD! As with any language, it´s so much for difficult to teach when you´ve grown up speaking it. I just help out with the assignments and answer questions. So yeah, I´ve been spending my mornings working, and the afternoons traveling around Rio Ceballos (where I live in Cordoba) exploring with my friends on motorcycle. Haha,it´s great. I love it. Except now I have a cough and a sore throat and it´s probably from all the dirt from the travels. Okay, tomorrow is my Host sister´s birthday party. It´s a costume party. hehhehe...

hahhaha

OH MY GOD the guy next to me is looking at porn hahahaha

so, i put my pictures on a CD and i left out all the ones from my birthday... oops..

dulce de leche!!! and kristi.

en Buenos Aires, La Boca

Niklas and me! At his going away party..

:) Argentinaaaaaaaa

feliz cumpleaños a mi..

My birthday was fun, but I miss everyone from home a lot!!! I saw Batman on saturday, too. The new one. OH MY GOD it was awesome. crazy. okay I dont really have a lot of time, but I start teaching tomorrow. and I really need to go to a place that I can upload pictures. Too bad the crazy shrek club is closed right now. grrrrrr. Mate time! byee!!!!!