back to argentina

Puerto Varas was great - italked with a woman fromthe feria for30 minutes about fruit jams only to discoverthat what are called "grosellas" in chile are not currants as i'd thought (groseilles in french arered currants) but gooseberries. currants are zarza parrillas. she has an orchard infresia, about an hour from puerto varas, whichtakes volunteers...mght check it out sometime! i went on to get kuchen (mostly a fruit covered cheesecake - i got one with cherry - and chocolate eggs for jorge's sister deisy and cousin daniela. Met up with julia, a german girl who's been working at the hostel for coffee.

Saturday i took a bus back to bariloche, and met up with two irish guys,robert and richard, and my roommate, an english girl named charlotte. we had dinner at the hostel (assortedpizzas...but they brought out one with hard boiled eggs first and left all the tasty ones till the end...grrr) they had karaoke and charlotte and another girl jessie snuck the guys names onto the list to get them to sing "bye bye bye". well they get up there and ofcourse they refuse to sing that but it turns out robert can sing and play guitar really well! and then went out to a bar in town. where they still play the same pop songs they played in mexicoin the late 90's.

Sunday morning i got on a 20 hour bus ridefrom bariloche to buenos aires. i didn't realize we were going to stop in neuquen, so i went to the bathroomon the bus about 10 minutes before, and smacked my head SO HARD onthe overhead compartments coming back. i had to ask the guy sitting next to me if i still had my teeth. ido,but i definitely chipped one of the front ones a bit. and ofcourse the kiosk in neuquen wasn't open so i couldn't get any advil, so i watched a terrible movie about some12year old switching places with his preteen movie star idol and waited for the red wine at dinner. (i shouldn'tcomplain too much, i've had pretty good luck with bus movies...the first one yesterday was rush hour 3).

anyway, i'm here in the hostel in buenos aires waiting forbreakfast and then hope to go to MALBA, the modern art museum here, for my last day! See everyone soon...ciao!