Thursday, October 22, 2009
Pre-flight Curiosities
Well, here we are - one day till I jump the puddle. I think I'm set. Lets see...I've sold everything I own (aside from what i'm bringing with me), if I haven't sold it I've given it away (the opp shops in Ballarat have hit a gold mine in me). I've made the most minimal plans possible...a plane ticket and a hostel for the first night, and some loose plans to wwoof at a farm in November. Aside from that, its really a 'fly by the seat of your pants' kind of endeavour....but that's really the only way to do it. To keep me company on the flight I've got Anna Karenin which I've been meaning to read for years and now will finally be forced to in a sadistic sixteen hour stint of sitting in a claustrophobic cylinder filled with 250 stinking people at 35000 feet. I've got my 'Learn Spanish in...' book me which I was supposed to have been consulting for the past months....whups. At least I will provide some humor (hopefully not insults) to some Argentines when I completely mix up the word order, collocations and context and try to say that 'I am a little bit warm at the moment' and instead notify them that 'I am a little bit horny at the moment'! Who knows....maybe that will be the proper thing to say to that specific person at that specific time...or maybe I'll just get slapped in the face.
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hola chico,
ReplyDelete?tu es caliente?
get that Spanish book out quickly!
(Guess who..)
Ian,
ReplyDeleteI think there's a small furry animal growing on your upper lip and chin...you might want to have a doctor take a look at it...ha!
It sounds like you have quite an incredible trip ahead of you. Hope you take lots of pictures and blog often.
If you run into trouble in South America, I recommend a phrase coined by Martin Lawrence, "Yo tengo el gato en mis pantelones." It'll work like a charm.
Good luck dude!
E Bengtson