CHI CHI CHI LE LE LE- Chile win their first Olympic gold ever

ByGwyn Fisher

Here’re the photos from Radio Cooperativa. Sita and, apparently, her dad are v. happy for Chile. I think they’re for tennis or something. The UK’s got a couple so far, in what events I couldn’t tell you. Not the biggest sports fan see…
Sita’s just decided she’s going to do a paper on Morrissey and Latino Los Angelinos after dancing around the room to This Charming Man or some such last night round our mate Sudarat’s house.
Anyroad, I’m off to work and it’s Sunday. Just had a chat with me nanny who’s missing her son Geoff, after he’s been looking after for a week while me mum and dad were on holiday in “sunny” devon. Really looking forward to seeing them in a couple of weeks.

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At least 30 people came to our party last night and at one stage dancing broke out. The empty bottles won’t fit in our huge recycling wheelie bin. And even Atticus behaved himself. T’was grand. There’s a few photos which I’ll get on here soon of peeps. Anyroad, thanks to everyone who came. It more than made up for our uneventful new year’s eve.

Santa Teresita, where the market down the road is

composite_santateresita Click the picture for bigger, it’s a composite of 26 photos I took on Sunday standing in the market by la Iglesia Santa Teresita. Browse around on Flickr and you’ll also find pictures from La Barranca, the huge canyon where Guadalajara suddenly comes to a grinding halt. It’s also where the UdeG school of architecture is, so on weekdays the park is full of furtive young couples carrying their blueprints around in cardboard tubes. Lovely.

“Pull over now. JIMADORES!”

I was having a fine old time today in Tequila. Sita’s contacts are paying off nicely and we were “gifted” all manner of tequila-related multimedia on everything from mp3s to a set of vinyl records from the 70s. Including a VHS of “Tequileros” which had parts filmed in Columpio, my favourite Destilado de Agave factory.

Anyroad, driving back we noticed there were workers close to the road in the field jimando, ie harvesting and chopping the leaves off the agaves, so I leapt out with my camera and started photoing them. They posed and everything. Naturally, when I got home I realised I had me camera on the wrong setting which has led to some very grainy shots, still it was a great experience. And I’ll not make that mistake again. With highly configurable cameras comes great responsibility it appears.

Here’re me faves (that’ll probably find their way to my photoblog soon):

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Big Bomba

Big BombaPart of the kitchen renovations recently executed in AgaveWeb’s corporate headquarters was getting rid of the rustic tilty-gallon-water-bottle-holder thing and replacing it with a cheap plastic pump. Unfortunately, they really weren’t thinking about the terrorism-obsessed foreign markets when they manufactured its packaging.

Spanish word of the week: Bomba. Pump. It also means bomb, for the record…

Other news, Ana’s taking us all to (a?) Temazcal this afternoon, for aromatic steam baths… Actually, I’m coming along for the ride and shall give the baths a wide berth and wander off into the country side with me camera. Steam baths are too far outside my comfort zone.

Also tomorrow morning, I’m doing the voiceover for the Camino Real trailer I was working on last year. Sound booths and everything. Should be a laugh. Though I can’t stand the sound of my recorded voice… Hey ho. I’ve more or less finished with a ton of translations too. It’s been a heavy few days…