It honestly was beautifully done.

so today marks the first event that i'm genuinely upset i'm not home for: the modest mouse / frightened rabbit combo. COMBO. it pains me to think about it. i do still live in hope for another frabbit date in the not too distant future, considering they have yet to headline an indoor show in belfast (i believe?) but modest mouse?! yes, i may be in south america having the time of my life, but it does make me feel a bit sick in my stomach knowing isaac brock will be up on mandela stage in all his insane, criminal, brilliant glory, and i can't be there. but i guess that's the way the cookie crumbles. keeping on the musical theme, i need to find myself an internet cafe with decent wireless so i can get my hands on the brand spanking new sixstar album. it's a work of art, from what i've heard off of it, (as was to be expected) and you should rush out right now and buy it.
as for me, i am well! seriously, every morning i wake up and realise i'm happy. it's a nice feeling. can't be bothered with much of an indepth blogging number so i'll just give you the deets of my day. got up at 7.30, showered, changed, devotionaled, etc., and bused it into town to pick up some brekkie for tanja maria emanuel and myself. then headed for the nursery. the kids aren't in this week, we've just been preparing for the big end of year party on friday which should be fun! then bused my way back home and had some lunch. gonna finish up here then head back into town to meet tanja and juakim for coffee and to take a photo of ourselves to put on a mug for maria (what more could you want for christmas?!) then have to pick up a few things. gonna come back here and finish making these wee bookmark things for the kids in the shanty town school. it's the last day there tomorrow so i'm making these and baking a cake. then gonna have some dinner and write some emails before facundo comes for his tutor sesh. after that i'll bake up a storm then settle down for some desperate housewives action. not especially interesting, but enjoyable nonetheless.
i hope you have a nice day too!

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Oh you pious and profane, put away your praise and blame,

a glass can only spill what it contains!

well hello! sorry i haven't blogged recently, but i've been ever so busy. seriously, i've been more productive in the past few weeks than i have been in my whole life. long gone feel the days of aimlessly dandering around tescos at 3 o'clock in the monring and, for the record, bumping into at least a dozen people i know who are doing the exact same thing. so yes! all is well in arge. more than well actually. have the morning off today because the school shut due to heavy rain. if that's the way things worked at home i probably wouldn't know how to read. so what to report? well i've seen a bunch more brilliant t shirts. this one, for example, which i like because it is shrouded in mystery...

BEST QUESTION EVER
[though what the question is we may never know]

also...
I ♥ NO
[typo?]

and this one, my fave thus far...
DREAMING OF SWEET, SWEET SOUP
[...pardon?]

fantastic. i need to get myself one of these. or several. didn't do much with my morning off. wrote some letters, did some cleaning, cooked lunch. did go to the supermarket though. when i got on the bus the busdriver told me i was very lovely and asked my name. so i told him and he said he would be very popular in the busdriver cave now because i've been their main topic of conversation for a while. goody for me, i thought. but he was actually quite nice and there was no-one else aboard so we chatted for a while. he asked me if i was catholic, for reasons passing understanding. i thought maybe it was a trick and someone had been sent from belfast to spy on me. but when i told him no he didn't seem to care. he did also ask if i was french though, which i couldn't help but agree with.
anyway, been here for a month now and am really really enjoying it these days. things are staring to wrap up though, and by the end of next week all the schools and nurseries will close for summer. so here's the happs for the rest of my stay.

from the 15th of dec to the 15th of jan i don't have much on. going to be starting a wee english course in the village for anyone who wants and doing some work in the market with the pastor of the church i'm at a few days a week. also, none of the work in the church will stop so my weekends will still be wicked busy.

then from the 16th to the 23rd of jan i am going to jujuy, another region of arge...



and from the 24th to the 31st i will be at a great big summer camp in santa cruz bolivia which people come to work at from all over the world apparently, so that should be cool.


then the plan is to come back to salta for a week, wash clothes, see friends etc. then i'm taking two weeks off to go adventuring. i'm so excited. i've already started booking bus tickets. thus far i know i'm taking the bus from salta to san pedro in chile. it only takes around ten hours and it looks something like this...


oh. baby. like bestie cal cal put it,
"oh my goodness. you're currently on the same land mass as that? i'm on the same land mass as some sheep."
so so excited. it looks incredible and i really really miss the sea so getting to the beach will be pure heaven. i've a friend out here from england who's been in s.america for a few months and she went to san pedro as well so we're meeting up next week so she can tell me all the places i need to go to.

anyway. i'll prob stay there around five days or so, then make my way up to peru for five days. not sure yet where i'll stay because the only place i know i really have to visit is this bad boy...


safe to say, i'm pretty excited about my life right now. but anyway, then i'm back in salta to chill out fo a week before i get back to work when school kicks in again for march and half of april, and then i head homeward! it sounds like no time at all really, and i think it's going to go very very fast. just going to enjoy every day as much as i can! the weather's been slightly more homelike recently. and by homelike i mean overcast, it's still bloody hot. but anyway. i have many's an email to send so i best be off.