Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires

bha, i forgot how much effort writing this thing can be, especially when it is so very hot. I am here in Buenos Aires at the moment after stopping off in Mendoza and Cordoba along the way. We have realised that we seem to only bestopping in the big cities so we are going to try and take it a bit slowly and stop in a few small towns and National Parks between here and Brazil. Like i said it has been incredibly hot recently with the average around 30degrees. It is really humid and one day in Cordoba it actually got to 35degrees. That was not too bad though as we just sat around the hostel all day and then started drinking that evening and got to see a 10 hour lightning storm before it finally broke and started pouring rain around 4 in the morning, good times.

Buenos Aires is really nice so far, we have learned to only go to hostels that have air-conditioning. Its a really sweet city and feels very safe. We have learnt our lesson in that regard though, i no longer carry around my backpack so my sum possessions around town are my suncream, a map and around 20-25 euros worth of money. Not carrying anything worth stealing actually means you worry so much less, which is good. Like i said Buenos Aires is pretty sweet, you could spend ages here and the girls actually are spending all day today in town shopping as the sales are on. Its ridiculous really, there is a Christian Dior shop with fancy waistcoats going for 40 euros or leather jackets going for 30. Yesterday we went for a 3 course steak meal that came to a grand total of 12 euros. Of course then you have things that are imported that cost the exact same as home and sometimes are even more expensive, books and electronics being a case in point. I can actually see our stay here expanding past the alloted 4 days. Think i wil buy present for a lot of ye cretins here and then ship them home tobe opened when i get back.

I have been having really weird dreams lately, just plain old dreams of home that are actually very depressing. In one i was after arriving home and met a few of ye except that ye had gotten fat and old and could only talk for a few minutes before having to get back to yer desks, then was walking around town to meet the parents and go home and i was so cold and depressed cuz i was never going to see my New Zealand friends again. There was another one last night when i was walking down William Street with Liam and we were pretty much just arguing about money and loans and shit, again i was just home and really cold. I suppose its just a kind of immaturity on my part about not wanting to actually face the real world once i get back. One thing i am noticing about travelling around with Kelly and Cathy is that I am forgetting New Zealand more and more. Its an odd thing really, they will be talking about some musician or event that happened in Limerick and i was wondering why i had never heard of it, before realising that i have not been in the country for nearly 10 months. pity that

In other news Cathy has her flickr account up and running, its www.flickr.com/cathyduffy It has similiar but different pictures than Kelly.