Its been a while since the last postcard! anyways to end our stay in New Zealand we teamed up with a new recruit -Elliot and hit the christchurch clubs until the early hours of the morning (mostly karaoke Im afraid) so as not to have to pay to stay another night in a hostel-luckily by the time we collected our bags and got busted (around 5am) it was too late for the hostel staff to do anything-result! So, after no sleep and 2 more flights (after a quick stopover in Auckland) we arrived in Santiago on the same day we set off (back in time-due to a 16 hour time difference) completely disorientated and knackered. This is when we met Joe and James-Error. After little persuasion and deciding to go another night without sleep the drinking games commenced around 9pm, with even more recruits from around the hostel we got trashed until the erarly hours then decided to hit a club...4 taxis later we all arrived in diferent bars dotted around Santiago, oops. (some of these recollections are a little hazy to say the least-so lets just say this is Probably what happened) My group was the first back at the hostel at 6am, followed by Joe's, Jenny and James arrived back an hour later with all sorts of dramas, whilst throwing some shapes on the dance floor some tool had bust jennys nose, so there was blood everywhere, becasue everyone was so wrecked this turned into the bigggest drama ever, with accusations (mainly from me) that James had beaten her up (as if) the 12 of us managed to wake up the entire hostel with the drunken screaming. At one point I believe I was thrown in the shower fully clothed in order to calm down... Next day, 4.30pm awake with the worst hangovers imaginable, thinking I have had a few nightmares I am horrified to find the actual reality of the nose situation and my various death threats to James who actually was extremely helpful in the whole situation. yet another error. Jenny meanwhile was renamed Barbara Streisend by the remainder of the crew due to the size of her new nose (gonzo from the muppets would have been a better comparison though) After breakast (about 5pm) everyone had calmed down, so much so that a couple of drinks and a guitar were whipped out, a more subdued evening commenced although by this time we had become pretty much nocturnal and went to bed about 7am. ....so all in all, we met some quality people in Santigo , Joe and James were a real double act (jokers-much to our amusement)and had a 3 day party, however we didnt actually step foot out of the hostel during the day so we cant possibly report back what the city is like. N.B Chicas at home remind us to tell you about the 5am great Irish illimination mystery (its a good story) -enough about that right now though. So now in Buenos Aires, recovering and trying to get back to a normal sleeping routine, 3 days in and this hasnt yet happened..today we got uo at 4.45pm! tommorrow we have decide to set an alarm (we are currently on our 17th alarm clock-no joke) so we can actually see some of South America-seems weird we have been here a week but seen nothing!!! Errors galore. xxx