Again, in the same day

OK so yeah, due to popular concern, Im safe from the earthquake.. and I didn[t feel a thing. Something is wrong with this keyboard too, and the apostrophe looks like this [. Whatever.

I[m sitting around the hostel tonight because it is in the middle of nowhere. Literally. Usually we have been hanging out inside the hostel as minimally as possible, but the town here is tiny, and after 7, there is no bus that goes there, so i[m here, having fun with the new people I[ve me. A couple American kids and an Aussie-Australians always seem to be fun. The hostel here is really nice-all we need is some warm weather so we can enjoy the pool! Tomorrow will be my last night in Brazil. Such a shame, I love the country and could stay forever. But I haven[t heard a bad thing about Buenos Aires yet, so I[m excited to get there, settle, and try to make some money! I just realized I[ve blown througha lot of if since I[ve been in Brazil, it[s definitely not cheap here!

So with all this rain I[ve had plenty of time to reflect and get introspective. I hate to slow down the pace because I feel like I[m missing out on seeing things, but it is nice to let things marinate a bit. This being my first big trip, I think things are affecting me in a different way than on the shorter trips I[ve taken before. Tonight, we were hanging out with this girl who is really sick, and the group of us were reminiscing about the times we have been sick abroad... my highlights were the time in Mexico when I puked out of Juan]s truck, all over the place, and was in bed for 2 days. And the time in Morocco when I let out the most explosive and satisfying diarrhea of my entire life into a hole I had dug next to a palm tree in the desert. Fun times! It has been a night of reminiscing, as everyone here in this hostel was somewhere for the Carnaval, and we all swapped stories of people we met, things that got stolen, the craziest stories, not fit for the PG audience, that we had. Good fun. The music they[re playing is all samba marches that totally bring back the memories of that week..... god it was incredible.

Natasha leaves Monday, then I[m on my own again, until my friend Kendra finds me in Buenos Aires. I will definitely be making some money by then, and I can[t wait to be able to be in a place where I can really get a grasp on the city and culture. And I[m excited to really GET spanish, with that crazy Argentinian accent. I would love to be putting pictures up on here, but for one it is impossible because I can[t upload them, but I haven[t been taking many anyway. As much as I would love to have them for a rainy day back home, I dont think they can really convey the whole thing-this trip has been so incredibly reliant on all the senses so far that a mere picture would be joke to look at. I[ve been really trying to soak up everything in this short time I have here in Brazil, and then once I get settled in BA maybe I[ll have some more, and hopefully be able to make some facebook albums with what I[ve got. Anyway, this was just a little rant after a few beers, and now I[ll take myself to bed. The prospect of a real bed tonight is soooo nice! I can sleep anywhere, but it[s not the same on a bus. But the dreams I[ve had these past two nights on buses have been insane, totally crazy. Really vivid dreams of ordinary scenes. And I was listening to a song on my iPod i[ve heard a million times, but this time I heard it, the girl was singing about cooking a dinner her boyfriend didn[t like, but he ate it all anyway, and threw up everywhere..... totally weird, I dunno what that might mean. I laughed though, and listened to the song again, just to be sure, and the words I imagined were definitely not the words I heard.

Alright, good night, next update will be after the border jump!