Everything happens for a reason!

So, I continued my emoness today. Not the whole day. I took my grammar parcial and felt good, then after that I had that immense weight lifted off my shoulders! GREat! So I edited my paper, had an awkward meeting with leandro, ate lunch with Lauren and found a new friend, went to my cuestiones class and of course fell more in love with my professor, he loves tim burton, so cool!

After class, went with Anna and had a beer and then went through the hell that is writing class. Finished, went home, ate a great dinner then texted Colby who said he was at Tandoor having wine.

I walked over to find that he was seated with Molly, who I can't stand. I endure some time there, then Kristina arrives and Molly converses with her. In the mean time, I turn to Colby and start talking about beauty standards here in Argentina and how're they're probably more fucked up than in the US becuase here I feel like on a daily basis I'm an obese grossness. Anyways, Kristina and Molly interject, we have a debate I get angry and want to cry because Krisitna's sitting there telling me I'm wrong for having a hateful self perception when really I can't help the way I feel. I throw some money on the table and storm off. I didn't know where I was going but I knew I wanted to vent with Katy. I texted her and she said I could come over.

So we do our usual venting thing and act like dorks and she makes me feel a million times better! I love her to death! Then Ceci eventually comes home, first I've seen her since her arrival from her trip to London, Paris, and Spain. She showed us pics and little video clips and just her smile alone makes me feel happy. She's so warm and welcoming.I realized I want to live her life, I want to live life to the fullest and be caring and carefree and warm and inviting and beautiful. She kept asking me to stay the night, that it was too cold for me outside and such. She's a sweetie, she grabbed my hand and wanted to make sure that I was feeling better. Seriously, Kat and Ceci make me feel so at home! I love them.

So I leave and cross the street thinking, fuck it, I'm going to live life and be happy, accept the heartaches and embrace the pain because it makes the rest of the time that much sweeter. I arrive to my bus stop and two guys are there, one looks very talkative and says hola to me. They seem to be good friends. The talkative one starts to include me in the convo, he seems silly and philosophical and pensive, talking about how we're just three organismos in the universe, all standing less than a meter apart from each other. He talks about the stars and about life and it's all beautiful and all very true. Then the other guy leaves and I realize that the talkative one didn't know this guy before. We get to talking and he asks me where I'm from and raises his eyebrows and repeats "Norte America" and starts to mockingly speak english, it was cute. I learn that his name is Santiago, he's a pianista and that he loves tango music. When I say that my name is Cristal, he starts to sing some kind of folklore song with my name and amor in it, it was beautiful. The bus arrives and he sits by me, asks me how old I am and said that I was very young when I responded that I'm turning 21. He's 28. He was very cute, being all shivery and wiggling around. He turns and looks at my glasses and says he likes them because of the estrellas and luna....gah, kinda like fate no? He was talking about the stars when I first walked up to the bus stop.

So we're approaching my stop and I ask him if he has a contact number, he didn't but he gave me his card. Said to email him and that he would remember my name. While he was showing me his card and explaining his company to me, he would point at it and stroke my finger holding the card, it was very sweet. We got to my stop and I gave him a beso on the cheek and said mucho gusto and such and ran down my street completely extatic!

I'm glad I didn't stay at Ceci's, I really wanted to too, I feel so at home there, but hey if I would have I wouldn't have met Santiago...