yo ah!

Hi guys and gals,...hope you´re all doing well.

Well been rockin Buenos Aires pretty good for the past few days. I´ve become good buddies with now 4 English blokes. These guys party really hard,...and then keep going and going. Then when you think its time to take a night off, ...running on 2 hours sleep they decide how great of an idea it would be to hit a rave. It took a few days to realize the age difference. I look their age and of course am 30. That being said, I am a ¨Palm Springs¨30 which means sometimes 85. These dudes are 18 and don´t slow down...crazy.

So, there´s an area of b.a. called Recoleta. This is where all the hip fancy restaurants and stores are. This is also where Aqua Vita Medical Spa is located...a primo joint with robes, steam bath...spa treatments....the whole program. I have been thus far for the half day treatment, which was a facial and a massage. Really cool. When you walk in the front door lookin like a bag a hammers, they have the treatment just for you.

Ahh, so the next day I was randomly cruising around a different area of the city...just kinda wandering,...looking at buildings, people, monitoring the economy, seeing where to put a drill bit type deal. Spotted a English teaching school and thought,...ooh neat maybe i could finally ¨work.¨ Like, you know, work. Walked up to the lady and said this and that,...to which some dude in the lobby then came up to me and said, hey you speak English,...and I said fcuk yeah...kidding. I did say yes though in my most polite Cdn. Apologies, long story short he was like would you like to audition for a commercial...store called Havanna which is like a starbucks chain down here. So later that day i rocked out to other side of town and went to an audition. There was a waiting room full of ¨reallllly, realllly gooood looking people¨and then we took turns going into a room where we had to speak to a camera about who we are etc etc,...and then....they pumped this disco music and in front of 2 chatches had to dance. I focused my best to return to our Vegas dancing nights to pull out some moves. I was quite excited cause i figured if i was selected i´d take these English hoodlums i´ve been hanging out with to some class restaurant down here. Be like taking the trainspotting crew to Il Giardino. Anyway, my days of being a famous actor and commenting on foreign policy have yet to materialize. No return calls. I do wonder if it had to do with my performance. For example when talking to the camera and instructed to say ¨something¨about myself,...i was like, hey i´m ryan mccleery and i like to eat out at restaurants and go to the movies. My dancing was probably like that guy in the movie, ¨Cant by me love.¨

Ok, enough bs,...the best part. Some people snort for it, jab a vein for it, and all you gotta do is jump...haha,...anyone know this quote from a movie. Well its from Point Break, and me nick piller and graham know it well as we attended Uvic ´not´on a rain or shine basis. Therefore, we watched much movies which included bodie and company,...over and over and over again...to the point that hitting banks seemed ok. Alright, so me and the english lads rocked out hard one night, got one hours sleep and then were picked up the next morning to go skydiving. For those of us who went out to abbotsford years ago it was just like that. We ascend to 10,000 ft which seemed to take an eternity,...i asked for a blessing from CT to enjoy the ride,...and then focused. Everything was just tickety pooh and i seemed casual until they open door of plane and the air and noise comes rushing in. It was actually ok.... push off towards the door, ...and then my tandem instructor dude busted us out into the most gnarly barrel roll slash summer salt...how the heck do you spell summer salt,...anyway. Within seconds you reach some seriously terminal velocity and its the coolest feeling ever. Total energy and fun,....and i swear no fear. You fall for 45 seconds and then they pull the shute. Actuallyi found this most scary when looking down at your feet dangling about 3or 4000 feet above the ground. Top 3 moment in life,...going again,...get your shhhit togehter you guys,...were doin it.

End of day, me and the lads were invited by the staff to hang with at their staff party for a traditional,...and massive bbq. Argentinian steak, pork etc etc,...beers. Cool times, and greatful for their kindness...


Congrats huge to katy and craig with a new williams piller addition to planet earth.

next, renting a car with these dudes and driving to mendoza...11 hours...then kinda road trip program which really looking fwd to. Now i just need to cowboy up and focus on these s.american drivers that think they are the bees knees in driving. Good thing i went to race driving school,...haha

cheerio,
ryan