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Award time!

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Things have been a little slow lately since someone took a liking to my laptop charger in Argentina. I finally found a replacement so the blog will be back on track soon.

In the meantime….if you´d like…. you could help me win an award? Only if you want to! It´s the 2008 Blogger Choice Awards. Nothing crazy. Getting nominated involved a friend saying

`Hey, you wanna go for that?´

And me replying;

´Ya sure why not, we´ve another hour to kill til our next mealtime´.

I think the address is http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/categories/25?page=81 or http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/40078 but if I get more votes I´ll move up the ranking and move page. If it moves, and you´re still determined to vote, you can do a search for Claire Takes Over the World.

Thank you all! I´ll send you guys postcards from the award ceremony (to make up for the lack of postcards from the big trip!)

Claire

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So I passed by a glacier the other day…

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

The 5th of January 2008 was the day I became an environmental nut. No more plane rides or electricity for me!

We visited the Perito Moreno Glacier down in El Calafate, very southern Argentina. I had extremely high hopes for this because getting there wasn’t quite the highlight of my trip so far. First, we bade Christian farewell as he went off back to Nicaragua to do some more work. Then we headed to the bus station, stayed right where the bus was supposed to leave from but somehow missed it. Little bugger left from a different platform. Luckily the owner was a nice guy who packed 6 of us who were in the same boat into taxis to catch the bus. Got on to meet some angry heads. Seems they didn’t like waiting for the stupid tourists who missed the bus. After that 2 hour ride came the 23 hour one, 3 hours after that ended we jumped on another that lasted 10 hours, and almost directly after that was a 5 hour one. During that we were made watch the same terrible Argentinian movie twice! When it all ended we got out of the bus station and walked in the wrong direction for a long time. Some ladies put us straight and we found our hostel, only to be told the person I’d made the booking with was a daughter of someone and doesn’t actually work there, so we we were on the hunt again. So after all that, I was prepared to point my hairdryer at this glacier if it didn’t live up to expectations.
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Happy New Year!

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
New year 2007/08 has been a very stressful experience for us. After spending 10 days in Buenos Aires we were eager to move on, but just couldn’t decide where. We wanted to go to Uruguay but it just seemed like ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Christmas in Buenos Aires

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Ever since I left Ireland 6 months ago I’ve been planning Christmas. The only problem with my plan was that it kept changing every few days. I wanted to go to a beach, wanted to go home and wanted to ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Summer School!

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
"Claire, this kid wants to see my bra." "That's great Sarah" Ah, it's good to be back in Granada. After a week inter-school term break I got back to Nicaragua to start work on an activity camp organised for all the little ... [Continue reading this entry]

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