day three

things i´ve learned so far:

• the whole concept of time is lost when you don´t really have anywhere to be or anything to do. how is that i´ve only been here for three days and yet i find it absolutely ridiculous to think that i was at work in calgary just five days ago? i feel like i´ve been gone forEVER... and even though i no longer have to think about weekends, the rest of the world still does...
• $0.30CDN ice cream!!!!! not sure how i forgot that in my last post.
• plans were made to be deviated from
• it´s handy traveling with people who know more of the local language than you do
• it´s fun talking to strangers and making these strangers your friends and then hopping on buses with them to random places that you´ve never heard of
• apparently i do a very convincing, 'yes, i understand what you´re saying' look because even though i tell people,´no espanol´ they still talk to me in spanish
• apparently i look canadian - not sure what to think about or say to that
• apparently being canadian negates the fact that i am born of chinese heritage - a tour guide made some interesting remarks about chinos in a conversation
• speedboats are fun
• i´m ok with birds as long as they have more interesting things to do other than attack me - i was on a tour of some islands with a million and two birds and i didn´t freak out
• a million and two birds all congregated on the same island results in a very stinky area
• i predict that i will be sick of long bus rides by the end of my trip
• moving large amounts of grass/weeds mixed in with dirt from point a to point b is a very dirty and dusty job - but so much fun! i´ve not been this dirty/dusty...ever.
• if there´s no hot water available, you´d be surprised by how willing you are to forego a shower - regardless of how dirty or dusty you are; especially if you´re very likely going to get dusty and dirty again the next day
• and i haven´t taken a lot of pictures. don´t really want to look or feel like a tourist even though i am fully aware of the fact that i am, indeed, a tourist. maybe i´ll get over it in the next little while
• still don´t feel like i´m on vacation but i think i´m actually looking forward to hitting the next town and hanging out on a hammock on the rooftop with a beer (or four) and not doing anything - who would thunk i´d actually WANT to do that on another continent?
• and i realize that i´m in south america right now and that in and of itself is pretty sweet much less the fact that i´m here for two months. but still, i´m choked that it looks like friends back in calgary are snowboarding already...i wanna go snowboarding...

that´s all i really got for now. i´m probably going to hang out and volunteer for another day and then be on my way again.

i´m alive. haven´t lost any body parts. haven´t lost anything (yet). i´m ok. yay!!!! =)