DAY ELEVEN THE DAY BEFORE THE WEDDING

THE MOLFINO GETS HITCHED... TOMORROW!

The only commitment I have left on my travels... The highly anticipated Molfino wedding!

An Argentine wedding... and it starts at 8pm! and the venue closes at 5:30am!

and there will be a lot of cheese! and wine! and DANCING!

and rumour has it that the Molfino mother is the last one standing! (or should I say tearing up the dance floor)

and ! and ! and !!!!!!!!!!

DAY TEN - MOLFINONATOR! SANTA FE

Today was “one of those days”. From the get go, the moment you open your eyes you feel that nothing is going to have the ease of forward momentum,  and its confirmed when your coffee doesn’t provide its usual awaking from the dead!

Yesterday I had my first job interview an English institute before I left with Juan on an overnight bus to Santa Fe, (no work at the moment,fingers crossed something pops up). 


Today I am surrounded by Juan's beautiful family… and this is when I cracked, maybe it was the relief of the familiar of Juan (a slice of NZ in Argentina) or being surrounded by a loving family, and/or the safety of a warm embrace… but I reverted back into a little girl and the tears came flowing.

I knew this day was going to come, when finally I step down from the heights of the puffy white clouds of my travelling wonder world and ground my feet firmly on the harsh reality of my predicament. The month of march is approaching and NZ is calling, my bro’s 2^nd wedding, my nanas 90^th, and my best friend is home for a month… all in March!

I miss my family, I miss my friends, I have no money, I have no job, I don’t know my future… but worst of all I don’t speak Spanish “Its not you its me!” and I am not able to contribute to conversations and I am sick of the sound of my own thoughts as I sit silently amongst company of these fantastically loquacious Argentines… 

I want to be you! – you, with your Spanish speaking and meat eating and Fernet drinking!

I need to stick at this! I MUST!! Miss Kendra Argentina 2011

But for now until the tears dry, I am very lucky to be amongst a family of highly intelligent, beautiful, kind ENGLISH speaking Molfinos! 


$24ARD Icecream

NINE - FERNET, MY PARTNER IN CRIME

ARGENTINE EXPERIENCE TOP 10:NO 2

Fernet;

how do I describe this tall dark stranger?

he is bitter on first taste, yet strong and dependable to the "bitter" end. 

he puts that certain pep in your step and the swagger into your stroll.

An italian digestive mixed with coke... aka an excuse to eat! 

DAY EIGHT - A MASSIVE OVERSIZED THANK YOU!

From rags to riches and the man of the hour...
and his incredibly hard name to pronounce! After my days been locked up in the multiple Juans flat, (as they only had one key per person I couldn't leave until they came home!) My first accommodation fail... made a come back! Gone are my days of living like Cinderella, finally my pumpkin chariot!
Just a hop, skip and a jump on a sweating subway from one end of the spectrum to another... to Ezequiels!

Eco and Ezequiel are Equally Excellent!
My weekend with the dinamic duo... beautiful apartment, Fernet, japanese w argentine wine, Fernet, multiple discos, pizza, comfy couch, swimming pool, suana, stunning countryside house with Nicolas delish shrimp & chicken rissotto, red wine, get wet party, champagne, fried chicken, eze's house,  Asado, pool, table tennis, soccer tennis, Fernet, icecream, pizza at home w beer, sleepins, aircon, comfy bed in mornings, and topped off getting destroyed on an epic run!

DAY SEVEN - FELIZ DIA SAN VALENTIN

A tribute to the first time, to when I fell in love and the girl I fell with! Argentina will you be mine?

A guide to the perfect date, ensure to repeat everyday for 6 weeks in the city of BsAs

Miss the day and wake up redick hung over and dry mouthed,  try to make plans to “site see” but settle on nothing but sipping coffee in an over populated café and afterwards wonder the streets aimlessly with numb minds and “rise of the zombie” bodies.

After napping we begrudgingly put on our Lycras and hit the pavement running, weaving through hundreds of people on Recoletas crowded streets, exploring new territory and absorbing the magnificant city. When home, we blast music - Top 10 Argentine hits, get sexed up in high heels and smokey dark eyes and drink copious amounts of white wine on the balcony. 11pm (dinner time here) we go out for a romantic dinner for two at La Cholita’s, share a penguino of wine, a salad and salmon finished off with brownie, icecreammmm and coffee.

Whilst we are sitting across the candle lit table, we stare longly and slightly drunkenly into each others eyes… and here comes the secret to our romance… compliment the hell out of the divine vision that sits before you, her face, her eyes, her body, her outfit, her brain, her pizazz for life… lead on to talking about a potential marriage together and eating this world for ever.. every inch of this beautiful life we have! Thank spiral man, (blog tribute on this guy to come) and the universe for the privileged lives we are experiencing.

Slap on a moustache, tearing up the dance floor with the most beautiful men on the planet, dance until your drenched in sweat, soaking wet, catch many an “eye” (Argentines have the most stunning dark sexual eyes which they use to paralyse women with there intense stares). Dance some more, make many a new friend and party until the wee hours of the morning.

Go home, wake half hour later and turn to each other…  EMAPANADAS? 5am in a taxi searching the entire city for somewhere open to buy empanadas! $40ARD taxi ride later and full bellys.. this happy duo are sound asleep.

Argentina, after my fifth time here you are as beautiful as I remember, but Zoe I am lost with out you!

$20 Cindor chocolate milk Valentines gifts

DAY SIX - NICE TO MEEEEAT YOU

 ARGENTINE EXPERIENCE TOP 10: NO 1
The Asado;
An aromatic, ambrosial meatathon!

This traditional mouthwatering Argentine carnivorous meat extravaganza puts our "slap another sizzler on the BBQ, chuck it in buttered white bread and cover it with Tom Sauce to shame!
Sunday spent pool side at Eze's parents house, eating meat, drinking Fernet and watching all his amigos play Football Tennis... hard work.

$14ARD toiletries