The surreal y lo normal
So after months of talking about this, I´m actually in Mexico City. I spent a wonderful week in California with my mom, grandparents, and our friends Jackie and Divine. Mom and I had a great adventure in Napa Valley on Thursday, and then it was off to the airport. My flight left at 11:35 pm, putting me in to mexico city at 6 am. I think I like taking the red eye, except I felt pretty funny all day yesterday, since I was running on very little sleep. I took a taxi to my friend Carlos´ house. I hadn´t seen him in 2 years! I crashed for a few hours, and then we took the bus to Coyoacan. There was a Jazz festival at a music school there, and the quartet that we saw was really good. A woman was playing stand up bass, which was something I´d never seen before. She totally rocked it, too.
Afterwards, we went back to Carlos´ place to get my stuff to take to another friend´s apartment, where there was an extra bed for me to stay in. We had quite an adventure carrying my stuff in the metro during rush hour! We arrived fine, it was just a little annoying. So, then we went Omar´s place...Omar is another friend I havent seen in 2 years, so it was a nice little reunion. We sat around drinking caguamas and despite the fact that I should have gone to sleep immediately, I was too excited to feel tired until late.
Today, I´m takin it easy in el D.F. but tomorrow, I think that I am going to go with Omar, Collette (his girlfriend who´s from California), and some other friends to Cuerna Vaca and a little town called Tepotzitlan (or something like that) where there are some pyramids. Then, I think I´ll take off for Oaxaca from there.
So, its sort of surreal to be here. On one hand, it feels really normal to be here...it´s not like being in a completely unknown place. But at the same time, it´s a little overwhelming to be speaking all Spanish again. En serio, me da ganas de gritar a veces porque el idioma ya no me sale tan facilmente como antes y se me ha olvidado tanto!! But, I know it´ll be fine in a week or so. Apart from that, I feel really different than I did when I was here before, so I´m experiencing everything in a different way, I guess.
Afterwards, we went back to Carlos´ place to get my stuff to take to another friend´s apartment, where there was an extra bed for me to stay in. We had quite an adventure carrying my stuff in the metro during rush hour! We arrived fine, it was just a little annoying. So, then we went Omar´s place...Omar is another friend I havent seen in 2 years, so it was a nice little reunion. We sat around drinking caguamas and despite the fact that I should have gone to sleep immediately, I was too excited to feel tired until late.
Today, I´m takin it easy in el D.F. but tomorrow, I think that I am going to go with Omar, Collette (his girlfriend who´s from California), and some other friends to Cuerna Vaca and a little town called Tepotzitlan (or something like that) where there are some pyramids. Then, I think I´ll take off for Oaxaca from there.
So, its sort of surreal to be here. On one hand, it feels really normal to be here...it´s not like being in a completely unknown place. But at the same time, it´s a little overwhelming to be speaking all Spanish again. En serio, me da ganas de gritar a veces porque el idioma ya no me sale tan facilmente como antes y se me ha olvidado tanto!! But, I know it´ll be fine in a week or so. Apart from that, I feel really different than I did when I was here before, so I´m experiencing everything in a different way, I guess.
posted by Emi at
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2 Comments:
ooh, I`m gonna read the hell out of this.
and I know what you mean about wanting to gritar, but don`t worry, it`ll come back to you ...
abrazos
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