back in the ol' u.s. of a.

More photos from Costa Rica

POPS is an ice cream shop found everywhere in CR

It's like mini US: 

 All of these photos so far have been in San Jose. I walked by the std place and did a double take ha

Met up with Andres for lunch

Back in Alajuela skateboarding in the parkway thing while it rained. This is Negra, Arny's family's dawg, shes fat and smelly but damn cute 

Tuesday: back to San Jose to hang out with Fo, ahahah cooti eater!!

Those red things are called mamones chinos, the outside is soft and waxy and the inside has the texture of a grape but with a giant seed, good stuff. The vendor stuck his tongue out and said it was "to make the photo better"

 I don't know what's up with old people and making faces at me

Later that evening Melvin and I went to see some movie shorts and headed to the after party and saw Exnobia play. Also ran into Jas while waiting in line at the movie theatre, it was awesome!!

Wednesday: Breakfast at Melvin's house. Gallo pinto, eggs, toast with garlic butter mmmm and that drink is agua de cas

And finally back in the States...

At the Houston airport, the flight before mine was to San Diego, missed it by like 10 minutes, daing.

eek gads

it's 9am here, i already had breakfast, took a shower, checked my mail... i haven't been so productive so early in the morning since for ever, it feels strange ha
anywho, gonna meet up with more costa rican friends today and then get my things ready tonight for my flight tomorrow morning, eek gads the states!

pit-stop in costa rica!

Stopped over in Costa Rica before heading back to the States, heck yes! Got to meet up with good friends and enjoy the warm weather that I definitely have missed.

Left the States in winter, arrived in B.A. and it turned into winter, returning to the States nearer to winter, too many winters.

Photos from our trip to the beach with a random mini roadtrip up a mountain thrown in.
Oh burritos how I missed you!

And the best group shot ever!

last day in argentina, sadness

I had an amazing time here and I met some awesome people and had fantastic adventures. I hope that I can return to Buenos Aires soon since there is still so much to see and do, and I hope that everyone I met here comes and visits me in the States!

Mi casa es su casa, definitely.

Good-Bye Buenos Aires, I miss you already!!!!!


Things I will not miss about Buenos Aires:
Having to carry around a million coins
Dog poop on the sidewalks
Whole olives on every pizza slice
Cold damp winter
Expensive Mexican food


Things I will most definitely miss about Buenos Aires:
EVERYTHING, even what I said I wouldn't miss.

sexy scabby head

so on to the tattoooooos!!!!
went over at 3:30, they showed me the designs we fixed one or 2 things, they redid the broken one and then they started tatttooing soon after, around 6:40 they finished both, including shading and just a tad of colour for the explosion (yeah there's and explosion!), then took an hour break, came back at 7:30, and one of the dudes cut a retarded circle into my hair (i saved the chunk) and then they proceeded to shave it, my skin felt so soft and squishy it was awesome!!!! made me want to shave the rest of my head, headgasm? i think i finally understand ryan

so yeah they began the little worm and it tickled so much!!! ran down my back it did, although the shading hurt a bit, but it looks so cute and cool :D i wonder if it'll scab over all hardcore cool
the worm took about 45 minutes including the haircut so all in all i was there from 3:30 till 8:30. and the total for all 3 pieces and 4+ hours of work: 300 pesos, yep. cheap. :D

and that was my day today

tattoo

called the tattoo place, the robots are going on my arm at 3:30pm, in an hour and a half.

another day...

so cordoba was really awesome, it's so different from the capital, i would totally go again 

 

on monday went to a museum, malba, and saw some people presenting some poetry and this zine thing, ended up talking to the group of young folks who put it together, and i think we might work something out with project guacamole and their own mag, which would be tres cool! also met pablo and vicentes parents that evening for dinner, it was strange having someone ask me about my political stand. they were super nice, made an extra salad so that i wouldn't go hungry while they ate chicken, daing, i want meat.

 

let's see what else have i been up to... nothin much, school is out and i'm taking a silkscreen printing class on the side... still no comp, and apparently i don't have a roommate which is a slight problem this month, but i'll figure something out. good times

Alda in La Falda!!

happy smash your tv day! 


july 1st:
i've been sleeping like there's no tomorrow these past few days, the weather has been so strange that i caught a bug and my eyeballs hurt a bit

july 4th:
was watching that show with that english dude who gets dropped off in random places and has to survive or die... surviver man? anywho, he got dropped off down in the glaciers in the south of argentina and the patagonia and ate puma road kill, tres cool.

i was just at la falda, woot! it kinda sucked a bit ´cause there was nothing to do but we made friends with this one dog that we followed up some trails in the hills, i named him manolo and gave him crackers for lunch. we had this delicious 6 peso (2 buck) wine mmmmmmmm with those cheeses with mold all over the place, creamy and delicious
another oh oh: i ate a milanesa for lunch and my stomach feels good! :D

the cordoba beer (named cerveza cordoba... so original) is pretty tasty, has a slight vanilla aftertaste

we tried hitchhiking out of la falda earlier this evening but it didn't work out so we ended up taking a bus to cordoba and now we're chillin in this really cheap motel thing, it was cheaper than a hostel... and we're pretty broke, or more like we're traveling on an argentinian budget rather than a tourist budget
tomorrow we're gonna try to hit up as many things here in cordoba before leaving later (technically) today around 8pm to get to buenos aires around 6am

the ride to la falda took 12 hours, i wanted to die a little bit.... and i'm sick so that sucks as well, kept having to blow my nose and i drooled a bit on my arm when i fell asleep one of the times 'cause i had to breathe through my mouth... goot tides


this cyber cafe is slightly creepy

picnics and knitting

i love having picnics, especially giant ones with jas
also, she just taught me how to knit!!

the strangest occurrences...

yesterday was a strange day in 3 ways:

 

1. waiting for the bus to take me to the doc this kid just up and falls onto the ground hard, so hard that his legs behind him float up and he rocks onto his chest. all i heard was a thud and looked and that's how he was. then he ran away.

2. a few hours later, outside a mcdonalds this girl was crying as hard as she possibly could, and by girl i mean a chick of like 27

3. i round the corner of the mcd´s and behind me i hear a giant sound like a gunshot. i turn around and a bus has blown a tire right in the middle of the street with like 40 people inside of it. the bus driver wiggles to the end of the block and stops at the red light, gets off and inspects his tires. everyone inside the bus stay on and look like little scared monkeys holding on to bars...

 

then i finished walking home thinking of what else could go wrong that day, luckily nothing else did.

home deliveries and random photo shoots

don't you just love how you can get absolutely everything delivered to you here? goood times


go to the supermarket, ask them to deliver the groceries to your house, done!
want a cup of coffee, delivered straight to your door, done!
need a clean shirt, have them pick it up from you and deliver it back the same day, done!


i wonder how many people NEVER leave their apartments in this city.

last nite we set up a random photoshoot at vicente and pablo's house. I initially went to give them the photos from thursday evening I took when they had this documentary at the university and had these 2 important guys speak in the panel. 

sidenote:

one of the speakers talked about the newspaper and other companies and how they're monopolizing a lot of communication means and how what they put, or decide to exclude, in their newspapers/tv news/internet etc affect the way that the people are seeing the govt. vs. campo thing going on right now and i know i knew this but i didn't know to what extent some of the newspapers here were skewing so many facts in their favour (the owners of those conglomerates are also huge land owners who would prosper from the campo beating the taxes, but i still don't know if i'm pro gov't or campo... too many pieces still missing or are unclear in  my head.)

so i took them the photos and then i lent the camera over to vicente who is studying film, then we started playing around with green and red lightbulbs and long exposures and then vicente's girlfriend, whose name i couldn't remember so i kept calling her "you", came down to just pick up some notes but we made her hold lights and model for us as well ha, good times