El Kiwi en Sudamérica

The wedding and more...

Well, I promised heaps of photos from this but, ummm... once again I failed to deliver - But with reason: No other randoms were taking photos! So, as not to draw attention to myself, I refreined. But I took some mean photos of the outside of the building...

Mean aye! Anyway, it was definitly a good experiance. And it ended at a fairly resonable hour (despite what i'd heard of such events) like at 4ish. So I got an early night.
So things started of at the church with a service. It was with a priest and that which kept things interesting for me, and I was completly lost when there were phrases that everyone said at the same time, but I could kinda sing-a-long to this 'alleuia' chant thing...
Then it was off to the reception, which started off with some 'nibbles', drinks etc. then the full on dinner.
So, yeah, things went like that for a while. I was fourtunate enough to be on a cool table, actually sitting by some who had just recently came back from NZ which was fun. And some others spoke english as well. It's mad, like at these kind of events when I meet people, It's so often that I'll have s conversation in english... It's a welcome break for me, and it's practice for them I guess. But sometimes it's frustrating because they don't give you a chance to show off your language skills (i'm nearly always a cronic slow starter, esp. in noisy situation) ooops, a bit of a hijack: back to the subject...
And eventually the dance floor opened up and through the night the music ranged from a walsey thing to start of with to Reggaeton near the end. But, for the record, I didn't really sample much action out there (i'll blame the shape of the floor coupled with the lack of 'opertunities' haha)
But yeah, that was a fun experiance for sure.
Other highlights of the last little while:
Visiting a property to the South of Santiago with the Moyas to pop by and see what the Valenzuelas were building there (it's gonna be like a place for weekend trips, maybe abit of a little building there, muy Bácan)
Chilling with Alex and Phil and the crew while they were popping by before going back to South Africa
Going to this inter-denominational prayer meeting on San Cristobal, which a killer view of the city and a great bunch of people
Winning our first game in touch against James and the girls team (we've drawn twice with really good teams, and been close so many times, so were still in the running for a spot in the 5-8 playoffs) and we've got one more game to go before finals day.
Visiting families from church and having a good chat about stuff, playing fútbol on the playstation, watching el ultimato pasejero (the ultimate passenger) with Katalina yesterday (reality tv has alot to answer for, doesn't it. In EUP the aim is to get heaps of kids from your school on a bus by doing all these crazy tasks etc... my personal favorite is when they pick a guy and a girl from a team and get them to reinact a kiss from a movie... so they had to do catwoman licking batmans face... last week a mate of mine went to watch some kids from his school and this kid had to lick all the chocolate from a girls face, but he only used the tip of his tongue (he was this fat kid, scarred for life I bet, pobrecito ); )
and to cap things off I would put some photos, but blogger isn't letting me at this momment...
Chao Chao,

Nathan

posted by Nathan Sinclair @ 3:10 PM