This is Sarah's and my favorite thing of all time:


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WHOA WHOA WHOA. I missed the State of the Union? Puxsutawney Phil saw his shadow? The Superbowl is tomorrow? I forgot that life keeps on going whilst I am clamboring up mountains and playing at lakes and spending hours reading in my hammock. Anyway, I am done with the farm now. At the moment I am in Bariloche, but in about four hours I'm getting on ( Read more... )

Yesterday when I brushed my hair, two bugs, three small twigs, a leaf, and a whole lot of dirt came out.

Okay. So I've been in El Bolsón for almost two weeks, working on an organic farm. It's pretty mellow, all I've done is harvest a bunch of vegetables, play with compost, feed animals, that sort of thing. I'm pretty sure the other day I caught the chickens planning an escape. They were all running around the side of their pen making noise, but when I ( Read more... )

Guys. I'm still alive. I survived Sarah and the beach and all that. It wasn't easy - we endured cockroaches, flying crepes, a very slow ferry ride, that sort of thing. She is in charge of pictures because I am in the hippie capital of the world right now without my computey. It's kind of great. I've never seen so many dreadlocks or naked children ( Read more... )

On Saturday it was 96 degrees all day. I've never experienced that sort of crushing epic awe-inspiring type of heat before. I was too surprised to be cranky about it. At night we decided to seek refuge in an air-conditioned bar and on the way we said, Hm. It's cooling down. Hm. Is that lightning? Hm. Is that rain? And then the sky opened up and ( Read more... )

I just turned in my paper. I am officially done with my first semester. Wahoo. I said wahoo. Now to sleep for three days.

On my birthday I had ravioli with calabaza (pumpkin). They were fabulous. I'm kind of obsessed with calabaza. At my favorite Indian restaurant I always get pumpkin curry. Soooooo goooood.

There are lots of people on bikes in this city. And none of them wear helmets. I wouldn't ride a bike in this city if you paid me. I've seen people ride bikes with ( Read more... )

I have been sitting at this computer for more than four... no, five hours and I have written one page. It is single-spaced and in Spanish, but still. I am a waste of space ( Read more... )