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Children's home, Kitchen

Children's home, surrounding

Children's home, my best friends

Lima, Chorrillos

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Beagle Channel, Chilean Part

Ushuaïa, Glacial Martial

Ushuaïa Town

Ushuaïa, Dog

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Beagle Channel, Island

Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego, Black Lagoon

Beagle Channel

Beagle Channel, Green Lagoon

Babes, Im coming home!

U should see the smile on my face! However, things got really worse the last weeks and I really needed to come home, so yesterday I went to the office of fuckin Iberia (I hate Iberia), but then the very serious lady had a ticket for me just for today. I could have hugged her right away. And still I cannot really believe that I can leave this horrid place...
I guess this is the end of that Blog. See u in real life again!
Cant wait so see u!

A friend just advised me not to write in English anymore. Hmm... I really hope its not that bad... in reality Id love to write in Cherman again since a long time, but what bout the friends that dont understand Cherman, uhhh Im so nice... (I borrowed that word, ok? This is an application for a permit.)

Be that as it may, Im back in town and I hope Ill manage it to hook up with Phil tonight for unas cervezas.... cant wait for some eeexciting entertainmet, ha. However beer is beer and I got DVDs.

Hihi, yesterday a mail of my sis amused me the entire evening. She namely has 2 budgerigars and told me that shed finally bought a need for them. So far so good, that wasnt the funny part, but then she went on saying: " If things work out theyre going to have 4-6 babies in less than a month!"

And I thought, how easy!!! U take 2 birds, finally buy them a need and in less than a month u got 4-6 babies. All they need is a fuckin need.

So i fantasised on how funny it were if u could pick out 2 foreigners (a man and a woman of course) out of a crowd, just buy them a double bed an in less than 9 month u got some babies... chichichi...

Probably u dont think that the idea is that incredibly funny, but I at least still was laughting bout it when I returned to my room at night. So I thought I might share that little anecdote with u... Maybe Im just starving for some good entertainment- possible as well. However, I love my crazy mind for entertaining me with insane ideas.

Last weekend I actually burned the second part of my pics on a CD, so I can take some more here, but Im afraid it didnt work out. After all the CD still seems to be empty and the only computer they have here that is able to read CDs ( three cheers for the age of diskettes!) couldnt read it. Grrr... I suppose Ill have to do it again! Anyway, there arent many beautiful subjects here. Some mist, loads of sand and trash, no green but many slums).

Im sort of waiting now to finally return home. I gave up asking raringly for some work. No, I didnt cut the grass as announced, no, one cannot cut the grass while mister painter didnt finish yet to paint the walls, not here. And I make a guess now: When Ill be back at the childrens home, he already will have done it. Though I told him clearly how much Id LOVE to cut their grass. Ill tell u next week bout the ending of the grass story.

Chao, see u in THREE WEEKS only.... juhu, cant wait.

slowly but surely I start to hate the peruvian dogs

Dogs all over. And they are either poor Boxers that cant breathe or fuckin bitchy! Yesterday night when I came home from the childrens home, the frist thing that happened was, that this shitty dog bit me in my calf. But that was not enough. When I then wanted to enter my room I was quite shocked, all my stuff had been put into plastic bags and everything, I swear, everything was at a different place. They had told me twice that NOBODY is going to enter my room during the week, so I treated this room as a private room where I just had lieing around all my stuff: my cam, my books, my passport, my pics... all was there and some chilenian stranger I never met in my life entered my room, slept in my bed on my sheets and put all my things into plastic bags. I was very angry.

Why do they tell me N0BODY is going to enter ur room and then do this?

However, its past now but I definitaly lost my trust.

I actually came home in a good mood and wanted to tell u bout the chicken they slaughtered and which I found on one side very fascinating, but on the other side I found it very disgusting! If I lived here for ever, Id definitaly become a vegetarian. Gkrrck... and the knee was broken. Drop drop drop... fresh red blood all over. And I was standing there, thinking of nicely vacuumated chicken breast u can buy in swizz supermarkets. Cheers on abstract vacuumated meat!

Today is my daddys Birthday and Id like to congratulate him here as well! Youthful 42 years...
Happy Birthday and enjoy ur party!

Next Thursday theres coming a friend over from Argentina! Im really looking forward for some male company, hopefully I can finally go out again! Cause I really dont want to go out here on my own at night. (Its really better not watching the peruvian news here, u get damn scared... murders all over, or bus crashes... u die easily here. One of the first thing I saw after arriving in Lima was a dead body lieing on the middle of the street...)

However, bout my daily life. Im doing better and already go 3 weeks behind me and 4 tiny weeks left, I think I can do that. But I really cant wait anymore to come home. Still theres not much to do, but next week I can cut the grass, which will take me at least 2.5 hours. My daddy knows, I actually really dont like cutting grass, especially collecting it afterwards. But things are different here and Im looking forward for some work.

Another thing is, that they always lose the key here. Its incredible! (How the hell can u lose a key 3 times a week at a place that is maybe, umm... 100x20 metres big?) So sometimes they need to pull out the nails of the lock so that the kids can go to school... or what ever. Anyway, that key is always missing and it doesnt take me long anymore to offer the service to guard it for em.

Theres more to tell, but I still need something to do for tomorrow... =)

See u soon!

short news

Well, very short, Its still very boring and I dont have much to do. But at least I finally dared to go out on my own and it was a great feeling escaping from prison. Theyre all very scared here, but I think it cannot be that I cant go out on my own. Ull here more next friday, Im sorry, I have to go to church where they honestly believe in 'Erbsünde'...
Im looking forward to come home and see u all again!

die erste Woche

Mal wieder auf Deutsch. Englisch ist mir glaubs etwas verleidet, vor allem, da ich nur noch zweimal etwa ein halbes Buch uebrig hab. Beide in Englisch und beide gefallen mir nicht sonderlich. Aber ich muss sie trotzdem lesen, weil irgendwas muss ich ja machen nicht?

Also, mir geht es besser, huete morgen habe ich sogar mit Erstaunen festgestellt, dass ich die Aussicht hier in Lima, die ja noch die gleiche ist, wie vor einer Woche, weniger schlimm finde als noch letztes Wochenende. Sogar die Augen koennen sich also an was gewoehnen...

Im Heim hab ich es soweit echt gut, ich hab mein eigenes Zimmer mit einem bequemen Bett und ein eigenes Bad. Sehr viel Luxus.

Mein Bad wuerd ich nicht hergeben, aber ich finds schon doov, dass die Kiddies halt einfach wirklich fast nix haben. Und momentan sinds noch nicht mal viele, nur 9. 8 Jungs und ein Maedel, armes Ding. Sie kommt immer drunter und traut sich nicht, sich zu wehren. Dabei waere sie in Realitaet sicher gleich stark wie die Jungens.

Leider hab ich herzlich wenig zu tun. Morgens sind die Kiddies in der Schule und nachdem ich beim Fruehstueck die Broetchen geschmiert hab und sie zur Schule begleitet hab, ist es irgendwie acht, dann esse ich und um halb 9 hab ich wider nix zu tun. Der Gaertner/Hausbauer/Schlaechter glaubt glaubs ich koenne gar nix. Ist schon ok, der weiss ja nicht, dass ich daheim auch Rasenmaehen muss. Aber ab Montag werd ich ihm sagen, dass ich lernen will, die man die Tiere versorgt (Gaense, Huener, Kaninchen, Mammi Ziege und Teenie Ziege, Wellensittiche, eine Schildkroete und 3 Doggies. Mal wieder ein Boxer. Die haben wirklich das duemmste Gesicht, dass ich je gesehen hab, aber was soll man machen, die Peruaner moegen sie anscheinend sehr. Dabei koennen die gar nicht richtig atmen, und weil der Boxer, Spot heisst er, immer so gelangweilt ist, laeuft er einem immer nach. Und das hoert sich dann an, als ob man ein schnaubendes Monster hinter sich haette. Weil seine Nasenloecher oder so so klein sind. Poor thing.

Ich hab versucht mit ihm zu spielen, damit er nicht mehr so gelangweilt ist. Aber er hat glaubs gedacht, dass ich ihm das Stoeckchen anschmeissen will. Jedenfalls hat er eher Angst gehabt als was anderes. Aber das werden wir schon hinkriegen.

Die Baby Kaninchen sind sehr suess. Aber wenn sie gross sind werden sie gegessen. Naja, so ist das hier. Ich glaub ich frag den Gaertner/Hausbauer/Schlaechter mal, oeb ich ihm zuschauen darf. Selber koennt ich natuerlich nie sowas machen. Aber vielleicht ists ja interessant. Aber ich bin mir noch nicht sicher, nicht dass ich dann schlechte Troime von blutenden Kaninchen hab...

Jetzt kenn ich die Kiddies natuerlich noch nicht sonderlich gut, das ist ein bisschen doov, weil sie recht schwierig sind halt. Leider. Es wird gestohlen, sich gegen einander ausgespielt, sich verhauen und so. Und die kleineren un das Maedel sind die, die drunter kommen.

Und ich weiss halt noch nicht genau, was ich in solchen Situationen machen soll. Aber ich hab ja UNO mitgebracht und das lieben sie alle. Ich werds wohl zum Bestrafen missbrauchen muessen. Ich mein, ich kann ja nicht sagen, wer mir das verschollene Buch vom dem und dem wieder bringt, kriegt Schoggi, oder? Sonst fehlen am naechsten Tag alle Buecher. So funktioniert das hier.

Zum Glueck hat es noch hermana Rebeca die den Tag ueber da ist und mit den Kiddies redet und redet und redet und Versprechen abknuepft (die dann wieder umgangen werden) und so. Dafuer kann ich einfach noch zu wenig Spanisch, und wenn die aelteren Jungs wollen, dass ich sie nicht versteh, dann versteh ich sie auch nicht. Naja. Aber eben, es brauch Zeit die einzelnen Kinder kennenzulernen. Und es sind ja auch ueberhaupt nicht alle schwierig, eigentlich nur die groesseren Jungs (was manchmal halt auch ein bisschen auf die juengeren abfaerbt), die 2 juengsten aber sind super suess... Omar (6) hat einfach das ultimative Verfuehrersmile! haha...

So, ihr seht, es ist anders hier, sehr arm aber man kann sich anscheinend an sehr vieles gewoehnen. Was aber sicher ist, ist dass ich meine letzte Nacht in einem teuren Hotel verbringen werde. Mit warmem Wasser (kalt duschen ist naemlich echt doov) und allem drum und dran. Damit ich auch schoen sauber heimkommen kann. Das wird sein muessen.

Hasta luego!

culture shock

Finally Im ready to write again, yesterday I was far too depressed. But then my dad called and I was sort of doing me good telling someone all my pain and knowing that I eventually could come back earlier.

Well, how shall I beginn, the first 2 days here in Peru Ive just been crying. Living in a slum, no water, no toilet, from time to time a cold shower at a friends house, everythings dirty, the kitchen, the plates, the pans, everything (I guess the dirt is the worst) and it stinks of stray, dunno how many of u know how a stray stinks like, but u definitaly missed one of the worst smells...

To brush my teeth and wash my hands I use a cut bottle (my great invention Im so proud of) with 1/2 dl of valuable drinking water, imagine but this is enough for both, of course out of the window cause theres no sink here.

Well, but the kiddies are lovely, almost scarying lovely. Im already godmother... I was sort of surprised but Sophia really wanted the Gringa ( how the call the whites here) to be her godmother, and I said, ok... very sweet.

Church was good yesterday, it lives and something quite weird happened... I just had to cry without no reason and had a very strange but nice feeling. And Im really a sceptic person. We'll see...

Now I need to pack my bags again to go to the childrens home where Im going to stay the week through...

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