I'm going away fools.

wateva

2009-02-13T02:56:00.000-08:00

ok so i have been back for a while but a will continue my blogging here (i should i lke start another one...oh well not sure how to do that and to many buttons to click...so wateva)

anywho once again u will get to read about my exploits...which i most likely shared with u anyway....and they shall be riddled with spelling and grammar errors, just the way u like it.

so since i got back i have;

put back on any weight i may have lost
done fuck all
played tf2 and read some mange.

ok today i played pool and was awesome. me and sam are epically awesome.

also i got ready for 2moro.

well thats my update i will put in better posts in the future
also comment or ill kill ur family

12th post (i´m sick)

2009-01-15T15:48:00.000-08:00

.Anyway so news update. Im very sick and have wat is commonly known as (on the tour that is) tap ass. see if u can work out what that means.

Anywho since comming back from machu pichu havent accomplished much. We did go and spend a night in a local home stay which was really fun. We played soccer agasinst locals and got thrashed. this was at 4000m altitude on lake titikaka and i think i almost had a heart attack. that night had dinner with the family i was staying with which was very nice. Then we danced with the locals in "native costume" which was good fun as well.

That night slept in a room u would have loved which was mud floor and walls and filled with spiders. Next day had breaky with our family and then left to these reed islands which were very touristy since those not wearing native clothing were hidden out of sight as we rocked up.anyway since then i have been sick since then and havent posted and post cards from peru cause i was going to do it on the last day but was sick in bed.anyway will send this to mum and dad as well but u most likely will see it first.

anyway lake titikaka is incredibly beautiful but most of the time i was on it i felt like crap. apparantly it meansd sacred stone or sacred panther or sacred bird. It had lots of meanings apparantly.

missing ya all and will be back soon. (so prepare to embrace my awesomness once again)

james

11th post

2009-01-12T17:33:00.001-08:00

im sick

last night i ate alpaca and gunnie pig.

gunnie pig wasnt nice. alpaca was.

today had another 7 hour bus ride. have done nothing else

tenth post (i survived the inka trail)

2009-01-11T07:04:00.000-08:00

ok guys heres my updates from the other side of the inka trail.

um as to the hike. it was incredible. The scenery was beautiful and itturned out that instead of having a heart attack at the end of the groupi was actually the fastest walker. Apparantly this speed has been attributed to my stronglegs and goodendurance but sarah did say she was a little concern at the strain i wasplaceing on my body as i wasd walking up. On the sencond day which wasthe hardest i was the first to every check point and came in 2 hours and40 min earlier than recomended. On the third day me and another guycalled dan scailled a 5000 m mountain (the second day only got to 4300m) which was brutal but alot of fun and it had an incredible view (and of course both guys who climed up didnt have a camera on them T.T. The group was great fun to be with and seeing some of the other pyschos on the trails made us all glad that we were in a good group.

Um but there have been alot of issues with gap and it turned out thatwhen we got back from machu pichu (of which was incredible but we wereunable to walk up the mountain next to it called waynapichu (little mountain and machu pichu is big mountain) which was one of the problems) that our fearless tour leaders sam had quit (was obviously fired). So we have been sent another leader whose seems much better and last night spent an hour and a half going through all the problems we had had with gap and our tour leader. So we are being sent of form for insurance purposes, beingtreated to a free meal and hopfully being refunded some money.

but yeah ivebeen feeling sick and most of the group has been down with one thing or another (some alot worse than others). will be back soon. james have some time so will add about pyschos on trail.

pyscho 1; started swearing on spanish at unkown male. fliiped out andsmashed him over the head with her walking stick and the proceded to rundown the stairs suicidally while crying almost taking out a few from ourgroup.

pyscho 2; refused to carry her own bag and bluntly forced the porters tocarry it for her (the carry 25 kilos and run the track so as to arriveearly and be set up for the tourists as they arrive)

pyscho ´3; was tellingthe guides and proters that really there englishwasnt good enough and they should all work alot harder at it or somethinglike that.

pyscho 4; kept biching about wainting for other members of her group

pyscho 5; almost tripped up one of our members by putting her stickinfront of him so she could overtake. then once overtaken she slowed down(and it was single file so overtaking was pointless anyway)

pyscho 6; refused to admid she was from anywhere other than usa despitehaving the thickest accent ever.plus heaps of peoples who had two walking sticks blocked the whole pathwalked insanly slowly and then refused to let anyonew pass

ninth post

2009-01-05T14:54:00.000-08:00

hi guys havent got much to add,
spent my first afternoon in peru in lima not doing much but emailing. (everyone uses there horns in peru like mentally challanged children...constant slamming..for no reason). the next day we walkedaround lima near our hotel. we saw changing of theguards at the palace which was extreemly sloppy and the musicwasterrible. Saw a beautiful cathedral which had an incredible mosaic madeof around 3 million pieces. After that saw a fransiscan church/monastrywhich had catacombs whith around 25000 bodies. There was a painting ofthe last super and they were all eating gunnie pig? it was quite funny.That night met of the with the tour group andeveryone seemed nice accepta new zealand girl who kept askin about where to find cheap drinks. turnsout im the youngest by four months.Went out for dinner that night which wasgreat. i had a meal which was sospicey i felt physical pain for ten to fiften minutes from one flake of chilli. managed to finish it though byavoid the chili. I was disapointed though cause i had order gunnie pigbut there were all out of it.

Anyway dinner was good but the next morning our fight was canclled due tobad weather. which meant we got to take a private bus that cost us 85 usmore (we had to pay cause we could have tried flights the next day but wedidnt want to risk that because if theydidnt fly then we wouldhave missedthe start of our hike). So we left a 10.30am and got in at cusco at3.00pm......the next day. It was hell. We had some drinks and the theguys had a disgusting burger from astreet vendor so i felt sick for mostof the flight. Oh and the heating couldn´t be turned on because thewindcreen kept forgging up (ehich was fair enough considering we weredriving oncliff edgeswith massive dropped). So with no sleep, feelingsick and nearly feezing to death we made it to cusco. So no im on the internet to stuffed to do anything else. leaving to hike the inka trail 2moro morning so i shall be out of contact for a little while again.

eighth post

2009-01-02T17:09:00.000-08:00

ok i got 30 mins ok comp access in cuba at dial up speed so couldnt update here

so i dont have alot of time so this will be brief.

got into cuba and spent one night i havana

nect day spend 155 on a taxi cause apparantly all buses in and out of havana were full booked for the next week. turned out the taxi ride was really nice. the driver pointed out stuff, bougt us an orange each and made sure we got to the right house cause some guy kept saying the he was the son of the owner of the casa we were suppost to stay at. i had no idea wat was going on cause i cant understand spanish the the taxi driver new it was a scam and took us to the right place. coincidently another aussie couple were staying in the same place in trinidade and they had to pay 268 for their taxi and the driver fell for the "hes my father" routine which we noticed was very common. oh and on the way there was a sing say w.bush.genocide@plan.hp

ok things done in trinidad, christman...smoked a cigar...it was ok. walked up a small moubntain that hada view of the city. Went horse riding through the mountians to a waterfall which was awesome. um walked arounf the town. the food was incredible for dinner and breakfast. fish rice soup vegentable and potateos for dinner and in the morning bread fruit omlete juice coffee. dinner was 8 and breakfast was three bucks.

Vinales. walked around the town. went on a hourse ride through tobacco fields. that lead to a cave which we walked through and at the end was a natural pool u cold swim in which of couse i did. road back through the tabbocco fields and smoked a vinalese cigar and had a rum drink in a grapefruit which was pretty nice. then a russian couple who went riding with us offered to take us to the beach for free. that was awesome and the beach was beautiful with white sand and clear blue water. next day went riding arounf vinalese and saw some maintian face that had been painted..it was a bit lame considering it wasnt anchient or anything but dont in the seventies.

Havana...not to much. found internet. but cause of news years eve a lot of the major measuems were closed and we could see them. on new years day everything was closed ioncluding the stall flogging of stuff to tourists. found an incredible chocolate shop there which had some of the best stuff i had ever had. saw the massive building with che´s face on it. infact saw che, fidel, camillo and marti´s facer EVERYWHERE plus viva la relociun and since 2009 is the 50 anniversairy of the revaloucion there was heaps of stuff about that.

in terms of food the places we stayed at which incredible...except the havana place wasnt so good. went out of new years and had lobster...which wasnt very well cooked....was a little disapointed. but we exchange five bucks of tourist money for the local peaso which meant we could buy local foods and super cheap (we only used about half of that in like three days). had some fried slices of potate, an 8 cent slize of pizza (with quality to match the cost). i also had a glass of wat i bleive was full of osters, which tomato juice, lime, tobasco sauce and a teaspoon of sault. disgusting but didnt go fluids to exploid from either end of my body.

trinidad and vinales were beautiful dispite tones of ferals disgusting dogs everywhere. havana was dirtier though and it stunk. dog crap everywhere as well as rotting food. the place is completely falling appart.

new years we a bit of a let down. the had an extravagansza thing for 120 bucks which wqe were like no wayyyy. fire works were ok.

um not much else to say generally...could put in more detail but dont have time....ask question about the communist haven if u want (apparantly putin was coming back to his roots or something and was suppost to be in cuba as the same time as us)

ice cream is cheap but njot very nice. oh and there are only two beers, crystal and bucanero which has a pirate on it...totally cheesy but oliver would love it.

oh and they have three wheeled cars like in mr been which was cooool.

seventh post

2008-12-20T15:18:00.001-08:00

ok

not much to say

BUT IT SNOWING SO MUCH IN BOSTON AND MAINE. It was totally awesome and cold at the same time. i made snow angles and threw snow balls and even made a snow man. i even made a snow angle in harvard...can u imagine the smartest student in the world and in the middle is some tool making snow angles....my cousin was mortified...but it was awesome.

maine is even colder even though its not snowing. its like ten degress faranhiet...some else work that out in celcius cause i cbf. but thats way under 0 celcius. um staying with an american family and have been able to use internet all day....its soooo awesome.

anyway only other real news is that i had dunkin donut yesterday....it was ok...nothing special. had thia for dinner the food was good but the service was sooo terrible. we didnt even tip them. the didnt deserve it.

today had buffet pizza....it was soooo awesome. i ate to my little hearts content.

OH also found a cool shop in boston like minutour but more focus on toys and stuff than manga (no manga at all). i bought a domo kun. be ready to see photos from domo all around cuba and peru :D. they had a chuck norris book to but i didnt buy it cause u can read them online but saw this one which i thought was really funny.

Ozzy ozbourne bit the head of a bat and not to be outdown chuck norris bit the head of a batman (with related illustrations).

anyway thats all from me in america. i might not be able to post untill the other side of cuba guys but my cus is uploading her photos and i may get links up in a few hours.

sixth post edit;

2008-12-18T04:41:00.000-08:00

omg i no wat i forgot to talk about.

THE NEW BLEACH CHAPTER. it was so aweosme i almost cried when reading it. to find out who the primera was and to see haribel while watching yama pwn everything in sight and then seeing the end it was perfect. BEST CHAPTER EVER

Sixth post

2008-12-18T04:22:00.000-08:00

Ok yesdterdat was a freeaking awesome food day.

i had; a bagel with cream cheese (which i obviously picked out). then honey ropasted nuts. then for lunch i had maccas and my god are their large meals HUGE. the burger is the same but the chips and drink i would say are around double the size of our large...its kinda gross. other than that the only difference was speed...my meal was ready and packed before i had even paid. but yeah the taste was exactly the same. um i think thats all there was. no thats right. I HAD A HOT DOG which was pretty gross actually but still awesome.

anyway onto wat i did. i went to ice skating in the morning but it was closed. from there i went to a massive and famous toy store called F.A. something i cant remeber its full name. but it was super awesome with massive life size lego statues of batman, harry potter characters, darth vader, chewy and more. super cool.

after that walk down to the MoMA (meuseum of modern art) which was cool. i had more picasso, matisse monet and van gough. i had a monet called reflections of clouds and the water lilly pond which was three canvas long which means i took up the whole length of a room wall so probably like 12 meters long. it was awesome. As well as that the had a whole freakn exibit of van gough as like its main thing. it had stary night plus many other of his best....i think i have seen every single one of his major works now. As well up the top there was an exhibit from Joan Miro which was also pretty interesting. BUT..there was some art which frankly can only be described as a steaming pile of turd. I WILL NOT ACCEPT a fucking red canvas with five creamish cloured lines running down it as art. that room sucked and was full of crud.

OK after that (i got maccas) and the went the musuem of natural history. which is like someone else has gone to the zoo and now u get to look at their pictures. It was cool but so many of the displays were reproductions it got irritating. but there had some pretty interesting stuff on like the universe and atoms and stuff. the had the massive scall thing which would campare the size of object that were like 10^26 to 10^25 and then something that was 10^25 to 10^24 all the way down to 10^-18. i enjoyed that.

well after that i went back to the hostel had dinner which included reese penutbutter cup cakes, and a banna. after that i went ice skating a central park which was awesome. i feel over once but the main preblem was that with not authotics in the skates my feet were in extreem pain. still it was awesome.

fifth post

2008-12-17T07:00:00.000-08:00

ok so todays food menu was just normal cerail for brekky and eggs cheese and toast for dinner.

BUT I HAD BEEF JERKY AND IT WAS just ok? i was a little let down expecting some ultimate form of meat.

anywho onto my day. i walked through central park which was nice then went to the guggenhiem. Its a pretty cool place and had a nice small collection of paintings with like one or two of picaso, van gough, cezanne, manet, and pissarro. its main collection/display or watever u u call it was from a lesbian photographer, called Catherine Opie, which had some awesome shots. some were intense with like scarification and needles piercing skin and stuff. it was awesome

then after this i went to the MET, which was incredible. it had a gallery of medorn european art which had all the above listed artist plus monet, renoir, seurat, matisse and Degas. but instead of one or two...it had whole freakin rooms for each artist or even two (van gough and monet both had two) The had van goughs self portrait with straw hat and his cypreses. also monet's water lilly and bridge over watre lilly's were there. my god van gough used a crap load of paint on cypreses. it sicks out like a good centimeter or more.

Anywho also at the met i saw displays on anchient egypt art, anchient chinese/asian art, old african art (totems and the like), anchienct greek/roman stuff plus tones of statues and a massive gallery of rennasience art (rembrant ect.) oh also a display of crazy intriments and old weaponary and armour worn be kings and stuff. would have had photos of all of this but the camera ran out of battery.

Anyway most impotrantly while in the met IT STARTED SNOWING. so i ran out danced in the snow like a tool then went straight back in. then a night it really came down. like inches of snow. i went back to central park and made snow angles and snow balls and ate snow which was super awesome.

anywho thats about it for now...im going to get waffles for breakfast.

fourth post; edit

2008-12-15T18:47:00.000-08:00

omg forgot to add
today sat next to a guy waiting for a train and he opened a bible...and i thought thats a little wierd. then when i got on the train he got on as well. once the train left he stood up and for the next 20 minutes shout to everyone about jesus the saviour and hell and read from the bible....it was hilarious i wished sam was there (or tom for that matter) to shut his arse down. actually some other christians tried to but he just abused them and told them they were going to hell. he also said hindu, buddishm, ect were all false idols? it was awesome

fourth post

2008-12-15T18:31:00.000-08:00

hiyo,
i'm in interbuts so i shall post for ye all.

just for sam;
todays food was as follows
breakfast; scrambled eggs, bacon, potatoe?, and a baugle.
lunch; two entamins donuts
dinner; a super awesome humberger where the meat part was at least an inch thick. it had cheese and crispy bacon and pickle....mmmmm

inbetween all of that i also had reese peanut cups, beef jerky (super hot by mistake), and some other stuff.

by the end of today i could sense my heart attack so i had an apple and a banana.

man the food over hear is soooo salty or sugary im freakin dehydrated the whole time and need to drink litres of fucking water.

anyway today i actually went to ellise island and librty island which was awesome and got all up close and personal with the big green lady.

after that i went to NYU which is suprising boring compared to columbia...which is totallly freaking awesome looking in comparison. (i also walked by columbia this morning)

um after there i went to "basketball courts" where i axpected to see some slam dunkin and shit but when i turned up i saw some fat black guys who where shitter than my high school white boys teams. massive dissapointment.

from there had a look around at some old record shops and cd's shops and some chess shops as well (the area is totally geared to uni students). but wat was fucking incredible was i found two tool cd's u cant get anymore, especially in aus so my collection has now grown XD

after that went down to a comic book store which was suppost to be like NY best. it failed. it was just like minotour... sci fi.. comics...manga...anime.. figurine. OK so the comic books and figurine were way more exptensive and massively cheaper but. the manga section was smaller than boarders and not even as up to date in naruto or bleach. the anime was super expensive. there sci fi book range was miserable small. so over all minotaur would rape it and appart from cheap figurine + so increible expensive figurines it wasnt that flash.

after that went to the rockefeller center. the tree was pretty awesome. big with lots of lights. the ice skating ring was pretty beuatiful and all but it actually is a lot smaller than u expect. much smaller than some of the other ones around NY, plus more expensive. Um from there met up with my cousin had a heart attack for diner and came home again.

oh also saw some wicked street performs which a have a few vids of. one guy did a flip while jumping over five people bent over. it was cool.

umm thats pretty much it for now...i feel sick lol

Third post

2008-12-14T16:04:00.000-08:00

OK! so i made it to New York without any hichtes at all.. untill i called my mum and she told me i had left my camera at home which fucked things up a bit. but i got a disposable camera for the time being and will probably get a camera duty free when i leave america.

anywho onto NY. well. its soooooooooooooooooooo fucking COLD. i mean wtf. its cold in the mornings and just gets colder as the day goes on.

Anywho.
Yesterday i sarted off with a made breakfast of waffles from this super awesome place that had big waffles. from there i caught the subway and got offf at grand central station. it really is just a bigt empty building but it still looks nice. then once we left that had a look at the crysler buildinmg and moved onto going to the top of the empire state building which was pretty cool despite the hour wait. its a mad view and the weather was perfect (exceft for the facvt it was even colder up the top). from their looks at some cheap tourist shops and stuff and when down town to the bottom of manhatton. saw broklyn bridge but cbf walking over it at the time. got a pretzle from one of the street vendors which tasted crap and had way to much salt.

kept walking around and saw wall street and the NY stock exchange. took photos and stuff. um then sent down further with the intention of going to liberty island and the state of liberty but we had missed the last ferry. so instead we caught the staten island ferry which was free which goes just by it and got a pretty good look. after that went to dinner at some shitty chinese place which was suppost to be good and we had a bitch of a waitress (worst i have ever seen, she served one couple and after she had talked to them they just got up and left lol.. we gave her a 50cent tip lol which is really shit)

after dinner went to time squars. it was awesome. so many colourful thingys to look at. went to toy'r'us which was insane. then moves onto the mnm shop which was three floors high. they had walls of mnm's which u could fill bags with and we suppost to pay for once u had but we just ate them as we walked around the shop and then dumped the remains lol and left. Pretty much after that we head home and i crashed.

Today was a late start after having to book a bus trip to boston and maine. pretty much spend the whole day walking around the lower east and on 5th ave. went to an extreemly famous sandwhich shop. it was insane. like two inchs of mean with mustard. tomato and lettuce where extras for a dollar @.@". it was goooooooooood though..more or less a packaged heart attack. hmmm from there my cousin had to got to a ballet concert so i spent time walking around union sqaur which was like an awesome makret which good stuff instead of the usual crud'o'rama. went to macey's....... that was a mistake. i new the place was famous but noone told me it was ten storyies of womens clothing. umm i actually started started walking around randomly at that point and ended up at time square again. went to the hershies shop this time which wasnt as good but i got hershie kissies, rolos and the penut bettur cup thingys which are also awesome.

Oh man today saw a gothic clothing shop that would have made jess's head explode...it was a million time better than shibuya or that peril underground shop plus it was relatively cheap. Next to it was a hallowene costume shop that was so big it ran from one side of the block to the other. the costume were awesome but super expensive. i wanted a sarah palin mask but it was 39 bucks...so no deal.

anywho thats about it for now. hopefully i will be able to put some photos from my cousins camera up onto facebook or something.

incase u forgot.... im awesome

Second Post

2008-12-12T08:20:00.000-08:00

Yo posting from heathrow airport.

Not much news except that flying is super boring... especially since all the films offered i have seen or have no interest in seeing. One of my ipods is flat already and the other is getting to about half battery life. So far its friday night ur time and i have not had any real sleep since thursday morni...infact everything seems a little wobbly.

No other news. Food was better than erxpected and i had an awesome seat next to the host peoples which meant i got food first and no seats in front so more leg space than anyone else XD

First post ever

2008-12-10T08:06:00.000-08:00

I hate myself right now purely for the fact that i am blogging...i hate that word.

Anywho lost my dad's ipod that i got him for fathers day and am trying to find it cause i was going to borrow it when i go away 2moro.

btw im going away 2moro at 11.59 to New York.

I need to fix up my ipod and dl some music

first blog post out.