Marcos gets Cholera

Marcos gets Cholera

Posted by on Apr 26, 2010 in Food, Health | No Comments
This entry is part 1 of 8 in the series Characters
This entry is part 1 of 8 in the series Characters

Marcos had diarrhoea in the desert and we pelted him with rocks.
OK, so we all have things in our lives that we’re ashamed of. But you have to understand, it was a different time, on the cusp of the last decade of the last century… (cue time travel graphic overlay…)
South America was being ravenged by Cholera.

Chris Dies at Camp

Posted by on Jun 21, 2010 in Adventure, Bolivia | 4 Comments
This entry is part 2 of 8 in the series Characters
This entry is part 2 of 8 in the series Characters

Americans love camps. It’s like their national pastime or something. When they’re not eating individual portions designed for entire Catholic families or shooting each other under the loving embrace of the Bill of Rights,* they go on camps. Americans have camps for everything.

John and Walter

Posted by on Aug 30, 2010 in Bolivia, Characters | No Comments
This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series Characters
This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series Characters

Remember when you’re a kid, and there’s always some older guys at your school that you look up to? Not just because you were 2ft nothing. But you know the ones. The embodiment of everything you wanted to be? Purveyors of coolness and suave-erity?* Despite appearances, being fully aware of the amazing mullet, John and Walter, sadly, were not those guys.

Andrew vs Physics

Posted by on Oct 11, 2010 in Bolivia, Characters | 4 Comments
This entry is part 4 of 8 in the series Characters
This entry is part 4 of 8 in the series Characters

Years after my damaging MK experiences I spent much of my holidays in Sydney convalescing with my cousins. They lived near the beach, which was a plus. We were all lazy and never actually went to the beach, which was a minus.

Abi

Abi

Posted by on Dec 13, 2010 in Bolivia, Characters | One Comment
This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series Characters
This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series Characters

Ah… where to start with Abi? The beginning I suppose. That’s a good place to start things. Let me take you back through the murky mists of time to Grade 5…
I know this will be hard for most of you to believe, but when we first arrived in Bolivia I was pretty dorky and not much of ‘the cool’ at all.