Harry Wokey

Hokie cokie....SO...

WELL i must admit its been a pretty easy week! The teachers told us they didnt want any english lessons this week so they could practise their dance for the independence day dance thing yeah i still cant speak spanish but i'll say yes to anything so what? no work? okay sure.

Male and Manuel took us to vina where we had a nice bowling match. Me and Kerry make a pretty super team. We went to the cinema, pelham 123 what a treat, and then we went and picked up my board!!! aaah yes Cheeky Charlie is back in my loving arms. AND its the best job ive ever seen on a board. I was like where did i break it?? Cant see a thing. £4 definately well spent.




On weds, equiped with my dad's cameras, we went and joined in the LIA independencia de Chile celebrations. Lots of cute kids dressed up as chilean people i can only assume? And then we were treated to mote con huesillo (peaches and wheat...yes dont ask its wierd...but so good) choripan (chorizo and bread) and antichuchos (kebabs) BOY they love the meat. Lots of bouncing on a random trampoline (maria and her schemes) and then a good old family boogie on the empty stage OH YES. Ines and Judie showed me their grooves. Must admit...their hips dont lie.

Thurs - We have a teachers dinner - mmmm salad and meat. Here Miss Carolina asks me what harry wokey means. what? the? she then proceeds to sing me where she has heard these words and to my amazement she is singing MJ's Smooth Criminal. Harry arry wokey harry wokey harry wokey arry. Oh miss carolina. annie are you okay are you okay annie.

Later my cousin, appropriately called Daniela Duran (yes handy), took us into town where we had some more beloved icecream and a taxi ride home. Ready for a well earned slumber Male and Manuel persuaded me kerry and chinga to go to some more independencia de chile celebrations must admit was not totally up for it (yes okay by now i seriously get it...chile is independent...well done...have a party or two and then get over it) BUT OH BOY what a treat. a nice almost empty huge marquee with some incredible seriously amazing chilean dancing. There i was, sat down recovering from a good boogie with chinga and THE LOVE OF MY LIFE walks across the room.... and asks kerry to dance. she politely refuses so i swoop in there to get my chance. Oh Juanito where have you been all my life?

Juanito: 80 years old and still going strong.
Skin:Brown
Hair: Brown
Teeth: Brown
mmm i can still remember his wrinkley hands.

That man can dance.

So im whisked off my feet with the promise of learning how to really dance chilean styleee and have the most amazing dance with the love of my life and then sit down in hope that we are leaving soon. oh please very soon. Jaunito tries to woo me by giving me a nice cold enpananda. what a gentleman.

Fri: the REAL independencia de Chile. didnt get in until 3am last night so completely overslept and woke to maria saying something to me. oh. no. so. tired. cant. understand.
so i nod in agreement to something si si si sure...an hour later me and kerry are too stubborn to stop for a taxi to the parade. Are adamant that we'll find it. Another hour later...we end up in the park we were at for the dancing the night beforehand and maria had just called to say its finished. and it was at the stadium. not the park.

A long slightly tired walk later where me and kerry are promising we'll one day ask for a taxi with our chillish, fernando is at the house packing up our stuff onto his car roof....with no roof rack. goodbye shoes. surfboard. kerrys coat. Its been a good run but i suppose my love for you had to end some time. Whilst im frantically trying to shave my legs in hope for some good weather. They may be family but a months worth of leg hair is enough to scare anyone.

Then we arrive to his shack where im wondering where we're all guna crash. Theres 16 of us in total. Turns out he owns 2 shacks right on the edge of this amazing beach(pichicuy). So then the party begins. First the churipan. Then the meat. Lots of meat eating (im ashamed to admit this but by now im seriously addicted). I dont know if its the salt or the hunkedy meatedy but im knawing away at this stuff like an animal sucking all the juices and adding muchos salt much to kerrys distaste. AND OH BOY is this bread good. im eating so much i can feel my insides becoming all.....yeasty. pan with chorizo, pan with toffee, pan pan pan, all the pan me and kerry can get our hands on we're stuffing into our mouths.

I wake up the next day, enlarged by 2 dress sizes and a fully formed bread baby nestling in my stomach. Mmm pan baby...i shall call you peter pan and peter pan shall be your name.

Just for future reference wetsuits are not the best clothing attire to hide a suspicious baby bread bump.

The weather is sunny sunny sunny. Fernando drives us a little down the beach to the spot where surf comps are held. I look at the waves and oh my goodness....no wonder theres so many crosses in commemoration of the dead. These waves are INSANE. Theyre huge, heavy and dumpy. So i stand there for a good 5 mins thinking of any excuse to suddenly not be able to surf. To have gotten in here would have taken some serious over estimation of my surfing skills and i really dont want to die. Infact in these 5 mins im able to come up with some fairly good reasons why i infact do not want to die:

No.1 if i die then i'll never know donde esta elisa.
No.2 i was no longer thinking about one person but now two...me and the precious life inside my stomach.
No.3 id already planned out the happy life for me and peter pan.
No.4. im way too beautiful.

so anyway...we walk further down and just next to a harbour wall are some smaller waves...dumpy, no where near as insane and a bit more manageable....phew.

so yes...some good family times. a good sleep in a very comfortable bed. (a bunk, held together with one elastic band..unlucky kerry for shotgunning the bottom...my superhuman senses told me itd be safer to let her have her way..yes kerry SUPERhuman...that is what i am). Some wierd dreams about uncle fernando singing outside...no wait that IS uncle fernando singing outside...its like 6am you party animal go to bed!

im all independenciad out.

cant wait till next year. i reckon the pre parties are guna start up again next week.

Over and Out

xxx

She'll be coming round the mountain with 3 tramps + 2350 calories

Friday, after kerry had planned another delightful lesson, Manuel pops over to the house saying that his rather handsome young surf friend has let him know where to get my board fixed YES! so me and kerry run into the school to shoot through our lesson which ended up with just us watching them dance..and yes thanks kerry for telling everyone..almost killing a child. HOW EMBARASSING! superman lift gone way wrong. Thankfully due to my superhuman skills (yes kerry...SUPERhuman...again) and my many a superman lift with eron my bro...i flipped him over making it an almost perfect somersault. EEK! EEK! EEK! Just for the record..if the parents get me...no intiendo nada.

Then we drove to Renaca..watched some smurfers at high tide (forgot the batteries for my camera *cough* div *cough*...and took my board to a shop. WHAT? 4 QUID? im breaking my board in chile more often. i hope its not a botch job...watch this space.

Then we ALMOST made it to the disco...until it reached 1am and everyone was clearly falling asleep. 1am start? seriously? the chileans KNOW how to partay.

Then the next day after we'd already been to vina me and kerry decided to sack off our vina day and instead climb a hill. So we made a sandwich to go...forgot juice...and walked to a hill where we couldnt see the normal route people go up and instead trespassed on to 3 tramp's home in the bushes until we found a gate which led up the mountain. Was a serious scramble...both kerry and I were in plimpsoles as well,good footwear attire. reached the top and stopped for a well earned rest.

i also climbed the cross!! was a pretty scary experience. my arms hurt so so bad. Then we came back down the mountain...i say this as though the "came back down" was a normal experience. It consisted of us both on our bums...alot. Ive now got a gaping hole in my shoes from the extreme sliding we did...and kerry looked like she hadnt washed. ever. in fact she kind of looked like she belonged in the bushes, with tramp number 1, 2 and 3. bought some more goods (mainly juice, sugar and a suspect bar of cadburys made in argentina GROSS) and then walked back. We were then invited to some pre independencia de chile celebrations..and then to some more pre independencia celebrations, they love their independencia de chile, where we drew pretty doodles on their tablecloths...here manuel informs me of ALL the calories ive eaten that day. 700 CALORIES PER EMPANADA. oh no. cant. stop. eating. tastes. so. good. and. salty.

and then totally crashed and burned and hit the sack.

good weekend.

looking forward to this week...hello real independencia de chile. (will keep you posted on our snowboard adventures...its guna happen one day!)

VI VE VI VE CHI LE CHI LE VIVE CHILE!

Over and out

xxx

zoo-logical experience

I'm going to try and explain yesterday in the best possible way i can but to be honest i think alot of what i found INCREDIBLY amusing..will be one of those 'you just had to be there moments'.

So we got up and jumped in Manuels car at like 10am (yes hello day off) and drove to his college football grounds in vina del mar. These were probably the size of large netball courts so i dont know if that counts but still. We were there to watch manuel play for 3rd place and numerous other little teams play for whatever...cant say i totally understood but oh wow was this exciting. Firstly it kicked off with some HORRENDOUS girl football players. It consisted of lots of spastic running...oh wow...and an almost girl on girl fight. THATS what i call entertainment. Ah, slightly disappointed for the girls but oh well i'll proudly take one for the team and still be proud to be female after the words the girls were cussing at each other.

Then we watched manuel in all his futbol glory. 2 yellow cards what a treat. And they won which put them in 3rd place..trophy times woop woop. So then we settled down for a good final match (bearing in mind it was BOILING hot..and i kept being attacked by an advertisement poster) 2 mins into the game the goalie falls to the floor in some dramatic manner and all i hear is shouts of 'ambulance ambulance' from the crowd. NOW im one for the dramatics but boy do these chileans know how to pull it off...after the good 'oh i think ive broken my knee/shin/arm/face' displays in the previous matches i really wasnt sure this was true until i could definately see his ankle in some wierd angle. So hands down to the boy...OUCH. Maybe i'll never know who wins the final.

So a short futbol game down we went to the mall for some grub where i ordered yet more meat, bread and CHEESE..yes small burger please...which turned out to be HUGE. like 4 burgers size with added salt, apparently it was the small burger which might explain alot.

And then after, we drove to Quilpue (think thats how its spelt) for some ZOO times. As we were pulling in, maly told us of the time the penguins escaped and were seen walking down the road. BRILLIANT. I think this zoo was actually what madagascar was based on. We caught a kangaroo moments from jumping over the fence (it had scambled up the hill...and was standing by the fence when we arrived...the monkeys were digging and im sure were inches from getting through..sorry im getting diverted...so yes Zoo...Got in free..yes thank you maly and manuel and you're wonderful zoo connections...it was a lot bigger than expected. loads of animals in nice small cages so you could get a good view :s

maly introduced us to Pilon (the tiger) and had her hands almost in the cage which freaked me out until i realised that the cool animal recognised maly and was reasonably tame. So yeah...maly managed to persuade the zoo keepers to let us in to touch loads of animals which was AMAZING. Elephant (which kept sniffing my bag with its trunk...no i swear i dont have any food in there...no no candy...maybe some candy), Some wierd ant eater thing which had a nice snotty nose, a yellow monkey, a tiger (both of these were through the cage) and my LEAST favourite...a penguin. I say LEAST because i used to think penguins were pretty cool...and after maly and kerry stroked it..i thought oh yay this looks well easy i'll give it a go...2 seconds later its pooing a LARGE amount of white gook at me. much to kerry and malys amusement.

maybe it was just part of its escape plan....poo and then run for the open gate. Oh and in the picture above my hand is moving away from the poo..id like to add i managed to avoid the poo with my superhuman reflexes (yes kerry SUPERhuman..thats what i am).

And then we drove home...i was knackered by this point. Manuel and maly watched chile getting their bums kicked by brazil on tv (4-0). Chinga attempted to make some lemon cake...where he put in i wanna say a whole pot of bicarbonate of soda AS well as self raising baking powder...hello HUGE slightly rubbery cake. and i ate yet more bread and cheese.

perfect day if you ask me.

Am still trying to persude manuel to go to the slopes this weekend. this may be a long debate.

over and out

xxxxxx

Catch up times

SO this weekend, i decided to take the chance at a much needed catch up of my life. After eating a late night hot dog as our friday treat me and kerry decided to walk into town to see the delights. Firstly i had to finish my book (3rd one out of the twilight series) so one impatient kerry and a sore back later we headed into town.

On our way, we finally discovered where the market was so detoured...where we found hoards of second hand clothes being sold...lots of very useful toys and fruit. We've only JUST conquered shopping at the supermarket..i wasnt going to attempt my non improving chillish no matter how much that fruit was calling to me. P.S id like to add that ive been duped...i saw NO strawberries, watermelon or peaches. Maria has told me to wait till november so until then im guna have to live on avocados. I knew there was a catch :p

ANYWAY...we decided to stock up the house on much needed english food...crisps ICECREAM and pasta sauce. on our return we discovered that Sole had called at the house inviting us to the beach DANG. So after persuading the gardner man to call around for her number (this involved lots of pointing at the telephone and a good impression of a beach)...2 aunties and 3 different numbers later there was no answer at her house. So we settled for a good film and our newly purchased goods. S'ok...my board still isnt fixed. But im getting on that case sharpish.

Then on sunday, we went round to grandma's for dinner (more meat meat meat) and then had kareoke where maria almost held us at gunpoint to sing along. But all in all, a very chilled evening hanging with some truely amazing people.

Ive managed to convince Manuel to take us snowboarding hopefully this weekend. IM SO EXCITED. He's guna drive us down...and im also guna try and convince him and mal on to the slopes. Should be a hoot.

Maly has also invited us to her work on weds, so we're taking a day off. (no questions asked) She's studying to become a vet so shes taking us to the zoo!!!! She says that we can stroke the animals when theyve passed out AMAZING. Is it wierd that i think thats pretty cool? Stay tuned for pictures of drugged up animals. We're also guna buy some mobular devices while we're in vina and check out the surf shops to see if someone is capable to fix my board.

I also found my long lost spanner and have successfully managed to construct my skateboard (2 weeks later)

We're also starting english classes for adults this week.

Will keep you posted

oh p.p.s just saw maria pull out a pair of childrens gray woolen tights from her pocket. What is she up to?

Over and Out

xxx

Nacho Cheese

hmm in mine and kerrys bid to out wit each other i fear i may not be able to do so in this one...as im probably going to just repeat what kerry said but hey ho

so yes we decided to use paint in our english class..lets just say i'll think twice before doing that again. Firstly i got swiped by some boys paintbrush all down my cardi and trousers...im telling you now...he is off my good list.

Maybe i would of had more humour had lucy not fed us the entire sea bed for lunch...and proclaimed that this soup will make us sleepy...i think she meant this soup will make us sandy..in which case she was right. I think the boy who painted his face may have cheered me up a bit (a lot) more so because it wasnt me he was sat next to. unlucky kerry.

but anyway..we successfully managed to make crowns for each child without any major accidents...but i dont think the kids learnt as much english as we'd hoped..i think we got out the sparlkly sequins a bit too early.

In the evening me and kerry decided not to eat our usual cheese sandwich and instead make a healthy salad where we were interrupted by being invited to visit vanessa at her work in an icecream parlour. So cheese toastie to go and a short car journey later..im eating a very large banana split. Lets just say Chilean icecream is sooooo much better than their chocolate. I think its also safe to say that my diet of bread cheese avocados and icecream MIGHT mean my plan of becoming super buff and brown in Chile may not actually turn out the way it had in my head.

Kerry is planning this afternoons lesson. I wonder what today may bring...(im going to invest in a plastic washable jump suit)I can also smell lunch...it smells like cheese empenadas...i hope im right. mmmm cheese.

Over and Out

xxx

how are you? JAPPY!

oookay so the last couple of days have been a bit random - consisted of a random shopping trip with marias daughter and her husband who are well nice... ended up with lots of cake time and a late night drive to quillota (town over) for pizza. The next night one of our friends manuel managed to get us out of this dance practice (aaaah feel a bit guilty but it was a choice between cinema or dancing with jesus...sorry jesus).

Also maria keeps pulling random items out of her bag - she pulled out the cordless house phone on our visit to santiago - much to mine and kerrys amusement - and yesterday she pulled out a pair of my pants. Im ASSUMING this was because she did my laundry for me. ha i wonder what she'll have today...

we've been carrying on our theme of health in our english classes and yesterday we were guna play tennis but kerry hit the ball over the fence. NOT HAPPY. we then argued over who was guna go get it back and we both decided that it was probably better to let them take the initive to throw it back than stand there with out dodgy spanglish or chillish trying to explain what the hell we wanted. I then decided it was acceptable to lecture kerry over how if her aim wasnt 100% accurate she should never have participated in tennis at all. i think shes learnt her lesson.

Well anyway...lunch is calling...i wonder what delights we have in store for us today :)

over and out

xxxx

Anyone seen my balls?

Okay so day two in the big nursery house. My eating habits need some SERIOUS attention...i think the bread here is seriously evil. Me and kerry had grey soup with testicles yesterday..well more like a sausage that had been cut in two and definately resembled the suspect item..much to our amusment. Tasted pretty good though...may be my new favourite food.

We then taught in the afternoon and constructed an obstacle course...i thought this was a perfect opportunity to bash out the headband. so glad i fit that in my luggage.

Kerry had her 5 words a day lesson with Maria where she mistook the spanish word for knife for something SO RUDE i wont even put it on here. 4 letters. begins with f. i think maria ACTUALLY wet herself.

Then we (i say we although i think this may actually be down to my very good spanish) somehow got dragged into learning a traditional chilean dance...tres cientos (is that 300 people) uh oh. but its okay cause my partner Jesus (yes im dancing with Jesus) knows the dance alot better than kerry's who likes to stamp. and not much more.

KERRY! KERRY!...JESUS IS HERE!

hahaha.

Over and Out

xxx