DAY FIFTY SIX - BREAKING BREAD

ARGENTINE EXPERIENCE TOP 10: NO 7

Free bread - Moments upon sitting down at any restaurant in the country, a basket of bread will be placed on your table… and the best part about this good looking bundle of joy is (besides the fact it always guaranteed to arrive at your table) issss the fact  it’s complementary! So my thoughts are why bother paying for a meal when you can get your daily nutritional needs from a hearty loaf of Anti–Atkins diet carb enriched sugary, fluffy white bread?! And old dear Atkins, I ask you this old chap: why are there not loads of tubby Fatsos wondering the streets of Argentina, if bread is the devil?

Every meal you eat in a household is accompanied with pan, wake up with toast and end your day with bread in the centre of the table at dinner. When I was a kid, every meal at dinner time, I would sit at the table, butter my bread, add a slice of cheese then proceed to put the contents of my plated meal into a sandwich.. no matter what the dish.. I am talking from spaghetti to stir fry!

These days my poor tummy doesn’t do the same hearty job like it used to and my stomach looks like a malnutritioned bloated African child after eating bread, it may sometimes limit me on the amount I eat but my eating of bread will never be stopped! BUT I must say even for me, I thought the step was taken one step to far when the other night for Mario's birthday we had Japanese and yes.. crazy and coocoo over bread as they are, the carb obsessed Argentines still broke bread with raw fish, sushi and soy sauce!

DAY FIFTY FIVE - "MUMMY, WOW, I'M A BIG KID NOW!"

CELEEEEEBRATE GOOD TIMES COME ON! (Come on and get this blastard cork out!)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIO - THE MAYOR OF MOFINOLAND

DAY FIFTY FOUR - WORK, SPANISH AND VISAS

So lets look at my checklist, I have a home in Rafaela - A home: check, I have hooked up a contraban system of spanish lessons for teaching English - Job/Spanish Lessons: check and I have a family to practice with - Beautiful people/family: check. Money spent is stuff all, I am around the $500 NZD mark. Money - check. So now half my cash is up in smoke but with two months under my belt! It's weird being stationary for so long, and the people look so normal now and I think to myself am I going to freak out when I see white people again? Am I having  an identity crisis? Then I remember I still can't speak Spanish, haha so not quite!

Muphey and his godamn it Gus laws! Just as I am settling in (cue dramatic music "don don doooon")
my working holiday visa is about to expire in 8 days! And here is the bureaucracy of all things Argentinian, it’s a 9 months visa split into two visas: six months and three months, NZ can’t issue me the last last three months, Argentina has to issue it to me buuuuut after a few weeks of non replied emails they didn’t even know that my type of visa exists!… hmmm phone calls and emails and its like pushing shit up hill… Fingers crossed I am a stayer! well of course I am!

and in other news, holy smoked cheese on the same date April 14th I Kendra Alice McCarthy have been away from the "land of the long white cloud" – Aoteroa for 6 months! Woowzers!




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DAY FIFTY THREE - OH GOD WHAT IS WORSE THAN A...

I ask you what could possibly be worse than the Croc! Well I will tell you... No, better yet I will show you and to be honest I cannot point the finger at a South American for wearing a Croc,  because they don't know any better about the fashion faux pars of New Zealand... But this shoe, no one, you hear me? NO ONE in the whole wide world, in the universe even, should be seen dead or alive in these nasty numbers! and word of warning: prepare yourself for the South American Croc competitor and international Bad Shoe winner... if that is what indeed it really is?! Because you may vomit, I did.

INTRODUCING THE INTERNATIONALLY FEARED CAMEL TOE!

! IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE, OR IF YOU HAVE SEEN SOMEONE COMMITING THE WORST CRIME IN THE WORLD OF CRIMES IN WEARING THESE HIDEOUS BEASTS... THEY DESERVE TO BE PUNISHED AND PUNISHED WITH FULL FORCE AND FURY... LIKE A NASTY STARE OR SLIDE REMARK OR BETTER YET A CLEARING OF THE THROAT WHEN THEY PASS YOU IN THE STREET. 

DECLARE WAR ON THE ANIMAL! DOWN WITH THE TOE OF THE CAMEL ON A HUMAN FOOT!

$5 ARD Popcorn

DAT FIFTY TWO - ITS A DOGGY DOG WORLD

I almost want to start another category of blogs - things that make this place kookey, zaney, wacky, strange, different and unusual, like the fact it feels like there is more dogs than people in this country. If your a Kitty Cat raa raa "icanhascheezburger.com" lolcatz kinda guy you're shit out of luck as it's solo Snoop doggy dog round these parts. So wacky blog number One - "Its a doggy dog world!"

"Sup dog?"

"not much, I am dog tired"

DAY FIFTY ONE - SORGHUM AND SUNSETS

Special thanks to my super mega star prodigy/Sorghum specialist Juan Molfino for his image - phot #1