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Showing posts with label Spanish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spanish. Show all posts

Monday, 3 November 2014

Week 41, Oct 26-30. В Деревню, К Неграм, В Глушь

Наконец-то мы забрались в глушь! 
Лиза

Лиза была счастлива: мы наконец выбрались с гринго-трейл в Эсмеральдас, провинцию на побережье Тихого океана на севере эквадора, где живут выходцы из Африки. Путеводитель обещал вкусную еду на основе кокосового молока и маримбу.
По факту маримбу мы слышали только в машине, когда вместе с нашим каучем возвращались с пляжа в воскресенье. С кокосами повезло больше.

Sunday, 3 August 2014

Week 23-24. Jungle Bells

Oooooh, I am soooo behind with this journal. The thing is most of those weeks I did not have internet, so I have an excuse. I will do one post to quickly describe what was happening.

Sunday, 20 July 2014

Week 22. Back To La Paz

I spent 5 days of Bolivian countryside where I felt so welcome being almost alone gingo in the area. We counted 5 in total with my new Bolivian friend with whom I stayed. I came back to La Paz on a long 18-hours long boiling to freezing bus.

Monday, 16 June 2014

Weeks 19-21. One Typical Day Or Spanish, Children And Football

Ok, I was lazy, extremely lazy these 3 weeks, was not doing much, unlike in my first weeks of studying on BsAs. My excuse is I was busy. Sounds strange right? What I mean is I did not visit museums, or Sucre, did not make photos. Except Parque creatico to the side of the cement factory with dynosaurs footprints, I did not do anything sightseeing-wise in this place. Bad, bad, bad.

Dynosaurus footprints


As I did not do any Spanish posts, this one will be in Spanish. NB, this is not very interesting, more for practice of my Spanish

Sunday, 11 May 2014

Week 15, Part 1. Elqui Valley

100km from La Serena sits Elqui Valley (geez, I read too many guide books), where, it is claimed, is the best sky to watch the stars. Also UFO has been seen in the area, so a lot of hippies moved here in the 60s. Stars are great here, but I cannot see huge difference with Olmue. I would say, I liked Olmue better than here, but there I lived on the top of the hill and could see all valley, here I am at the bottom.
P.S. As I forgot to write in Spanish last week, there will be 2 Spanish posts for this.

Saturday, 3 May 2014

Week 13. Unexpected Vacations

As of Friday last week I am working on the farm. So far so good: I am fed on time (or I feed myself), weather is nice and sunny, I do what I like as owner has been mostly away, we were making wine in the middle of the night and starts are fantastic here.
However, on Monday Mario told me that he has to go and help his friend for a couple of days, so I am free to do whatever I want for this time. And so I went to the coast.

Thursday, 17 April 2014

Week 12, Part 1. Completing To-do List In Argentina

My last days in Argentina for this trip (never say never though)! I am ready to go, cannot wait to see more of Chile.
I still a lot of to-do list to complete for Argentina, which I started last week, so this is a plan for the first half of this week.

Monday, 14 April 2014

Week 11, Part 2. Going up North

There are so many English people in the hostel in Bariloche! Most of them are from Oxbridge. I love their English! I wish I heard more English like that when I was in the UK.
I also meet so many people from Gloucestershire: Nailworth, Cheltenham (Heatherley), Stroud, Corencester. Feels like all of them just followed me to South America!
Autumn, although beautiful, still depressing: cannot change my European state of mind here. I have decided to start 'yet another new life' (I started every 3 months or so I think?). I need to occupy my brain, it begs for work.

Monday, 10 March 2014

Week 6. Solars, Wine And End Of The World

How do you like my new map?
I have also created new album for you to check out.


Saturday, 15 February 2014

Week 3. Last Week In Buenos Aires

Monday, 10/02. Russian vodka dinner

Сегодня готовила борщ для своих хозяев и их друзей. Они купили водку, я нашла соленые огурцы и капусту (ish). Russian dinner with vodka. Для аргентинцев странно пить водку с едой, а не в клубе и не закусывая.
С утра в попытках найти нужные ингридиенты бегала по магазинам. Какие же у них плохие овощи! Вроде все, что нужно есть, но выбрать свеклу практически невозможно. 
В магазине есть 2 типа картошки - мытая и немытая. Немытая в 2 раза дороже, но такая же гнилая. "Если нет разницы, зачем платить больше?"-подумала я, и набрала немытой на 0.5 доллара (что это теперь? 20 рублей?). Зато мяса много и на любой вкус. 
Начала готовить и поняла, что борщ я не варила уже несколько лет. Все переживала, что картошка переварилась (она у них какая-то мягкая и варится за 5 минут), капуста недоварилась. К тому же, один из друзей моих хозяев уже пробовал борщ: остальным можно было сказать, что так и надо. Но, то ли водка, то ли голод дал о себе знать, "muy rico". Международного скандала удалось избежать. 
Я не умею варить маленькими порциями, им еще неделю этот борщ есть. Холодная водка под корнюшоны (ближайший эквавалент соленых огурцов, который удалось найти) и квашеную капусту тоже хорошо пошла. Бутылку, правда, на 5х не смогли добить. 
Пока я готовила все, включая гостей, предложили свою помощь. Гости всегда приносят либо вино, либо десерт. 
Когда закончили есть, все дружно начали убирать со стола посуду, оставив только алкоголь. 
У них в языке нет понятия "хозяин" (по крайней мере, у моих хозяев), есть "приглашенные". Они ходят в гости к друг другу по очереди, помогают накрывать и убирать со стола - какие же они гости? Правда, никто ничегУ них, как и в России, принято приглашать людей в гости и сидеть говорить, говорить, говорить, есть, пить чай (мате в их случае). У нас вообще в этом плане много общего.

Sunday, 9 February 2014

Week 2. Buenos Aires. Elpasaje School

So I have change the school this week for something cheaper and smaller. We are only 4 in the group as against 6 in the previous, and, as the classes are in the afternoon, we do not get to meet a lot of people. I am glad I chosen to go to Expanish first, it was more social, the building only belongs to the school, looks like they organize more events. Money well spent. Now it is time to concentrate on my Spanish.

If this is ok with you, I wil not reply to the comments in posts, but will try to answer in the next. I do not really have time to spend in internet, so I try to be efficient. Hope this it ok? I promise to update weekly. 

Warning: this post is a crazy mixture of languages, I apologize for it. Just felt like writting in other language sometimes. 

Monday, 3 February 2014

Rainy weekend in Buenos Aires

It was rainy and thundery over weekend, and I was not very motivated to walk under the rain. So I stayed in the barrio.