Monday, January 25, 2010

I'm back in Aus... woot woot.



so, i arrived back yesterday to my new house in centennial park. it is nice to be back, but so much to think about from an AMAZING trip away. I watched the movie all about steve on the plane on the way back, and i wish i had a better vocab, like sandra bullocks character... AMAZING, just doesn't do justice to anything that i have done since i have been away.
I think i wrote already, i left just before Christmas Day. I spent 2 weeks(ish) in Peru, and 2 weeks(ish) in Chile. The time in Peru was mainly spent shadowing Margaret as she goes about her daily duties. I am going to look up working with homeless kids in Lima soon. I have so many things on my list of 'to think about' when i return home (and now i'm home, time to get started!). First, hanging around in trees and learning spanish better. Haha.
After a month away, my spanish has improved, but i can still only speak in the present tense and have trouble understanding when people use past and future and who they are talking about. But we get there eventually.

After Peru, my trip was clearly divided into 2 sections... Time in Vina del Mar with Claudia, her family, Shane, his family and a guy called Biggy (Shane's friend). Then, I moved down south and i'll write about that trip in another blog entry..

so... Vina, lots of wedding preparations and it was great to chill with Claudia and her family. Her mum called me her 'buena energia' because through all the stress, i was just a good energy staying there and helping out where possible. Claudia and Shane had a civil ceremony on the Wednesday and the church wedding on the Friday night. Both were beautiful. Claudia's dad Denis did a fantastic 'muy rico' BBQ that would put aussies to shame. but i think it was soooo tasty cos all the meat was totally covered in salt. they tend to put salt with everything over there.

so, a few photos from lima and chile... then i'm going out to explore my city a bit!
woot woot!!!



the crazy hour at the wedding about 2am, when the hats, leis, masks, glowsticks, maracas and whistles come out and everyone has to have fun. this is me and some of shane's family

hora loca, crazy hour again
me and ely, my new friend. haha. more to come about this in the next post.

claudias dad and mum, claudia and shane, and shanes mum and dad


some of shane's family, shane and claudias sister 'pollo'


claudia and her dad at the civil service BBQ, best meat ever...


me, clauds and biggy and the civil service


pollo, clauds, me, loreto and claudia.... some of the capel peeps


ahhhhh..... bienvenido mr reynolds and mrs capel!!! congratulations guys!!!
a beautiful couple, a bueatiful wedding and a beautiful time in a beautiful country!
anyways, i'm off to go and explore sydney a bit...
more to come from chile and peru a bit later!
love you all
deev
xx

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Viña...

Pamela Anderson is in Viña del Mar...
as is davina!!! woot woot... i don´t look so good running down the beach.

haha.
we´re looking at claudia´s dress tonight... yay... and then i leave her house and go to a hotel... =(

it has been fun living with her and pollo... oh well... i´ll get to visit again in NZ.

thanks mrs capel for having me! it´s been awesome!

hope everyone is well wherever they are!!
besitos!
xx