dgirl

Sunday, January 13, 2008


hey dudes!

hope you all had a wonderful christmas and new year, and are excited about 2008! :)

we had a rad time in buenos aires with ger's family. christmas in argentina seem much like back home - lots of family, food and pressies - but on the evening of christmas eve, which is lovely with all the christmas lights and fireworks (fuegos artificiales). we spent new years on the beach in san bernardo (400km south of buenos aires city, which took us 9 hours by car instead of 4 hours due to the abominable traffic) with ana (ma) and aroldo (pa), ger's sister clara and her husband andres, and their beautiful baby boy bauti. san bernardo is a place that ger and his family have been coming to for holidays for all of ger's life and i was excited to see it. we stayed in a nice hotel right across the beach and enjoyed the brilliant summer sun for a couple of days. san bernardo is a buzzing little summer vacation town that is otherwise pretty dead in the off-season. it's pretty cool because it has that laid-back, non-commercial summer feel thanks to the fact that it is not a foreign tourist destination. i must admit that the beach really can not be compared to the likes of matapouri, but it was very pleasant nonetheless and an interesting introduction to arentinian beach culture: g-string bikinis, beach tents for rent, and mobile churro carts. the sea was warm and the brown water is not really a put-off considering it's just brown coz of the mix with river water. the beach was a relaxing little holiday from our holiday! the whole time we were in argentina the weather was perfect, in fact it reached 38 degrees in the city while we were at the beach (thank god we were at the beach, otherwise i think i possibly could have died) - it was so wierd jumping in the pool almost naked at ger's ma and pa's place when only the day before we were bundled up in matress-thick layers in calgary!

it's nice to be home again too though (in calgs). must admit that almost 2 weeks in buenos aires over the holiday season got at times rather stressful... it appears my self-teaching of spanish really isnt getting me very far and i felt like an idiot a lot of the time not understanding a thing! one of my new year's resolutions: join a spanish class! :) i'm also glad to be home coz i'm excited about the new year we have ahead of us, excited about my job, about being in canada and i want to make the most of it while we're here.

so happy new year everyone!! i hope that delightful things are in store for us all :)

if ya wanna check out some pics from buenos aires, go here: http://dabunj.spaces.live.com/

lots of love, d xxxooo