building off that wonderful people theme, god today was a GREAT day, full of amazing people of course! Also, I'm currently listening to playlist.com, which has allowed me to have access to my fav music...but actually I'm craving my argentine fav IMPERIO DIABLO right now, so goodbye The Shins, hello amazing band!!!
so today I woke up and wrote my paper, to my dismay, Laura emailed me and asked if we could meet at 1pm instead of 5pm. But it's all good, the rain let up and it was suddenly SO SUNNY and actually warm! I met her at my fav cafe across from the jardin botanico, so even though I was stuck inside writing, at least I had a gorgeous view and a window that let in the warmth of the sunshine! I was sitting there when someone knocking on the window scared me, it was my friend Lauren and her friend Eric, so funny, because that's one of her fav cafes. I said hi and we continued writing. At about 5 we wrote an intro and were done, we stopped by a confiteria and got some sweets and then I came home, busted out the last 2 1/2 pages of my part, then suddenly it was already 8:30 and I started walking on Santa Fe towards Lauren's house and picked up some Malbec to try to be genial and a good guest in a new house. I got there and I was the first of Lauren's guests to arrive.
Her host parents are the cutest!!! Soledad y Esteban! and then they had their friends Evi y Francisco (Fran) over for dinner too! Gosh todos son tan geniales! They were all so welcoming! They served me up a drink and started asking me the usual intro questions. They were cutting up lots of things and on the menu was their porteno style mexican food! It all looked so fresh and colorful and great, I was excited to try it. They had green guacamole, purple cabbage, a orange carrot spread, black beans and lentils, pico de gallo, bottled salsas, and pollo, carne, y cerdo! I was in heaven! I loved their interpretation of mexican food. They served up the wine at dinner and we were all laughing and sharing stories after a while, talking about different colloquial phrases in Spanish and English, somehow I said HEN in English and all the portenos at the table took a shot at saying it, todos re-lindos! jajaja ah we were all cracking up so bad, it was so nice. It's such a difference being a place where I truly feel at home, they were so welcoming and we just sat there and laughed most of the time.
I also complained about my host mom to them, they were all on my side, just reaffirmed the fact that I take precautions and according to Esteban, no debo estar saliendo besando a todos los chicos! jaja but they all thought it was absurd that they were putting so many restrictions on me, Soledad even said that I can come over their house on the last day if there's a problem with scheduling since my family's leaving to Rosario. Gosh, they're all so loving and welcoming, why didn't I get a family like that!?!?!? All other portenos I meet are like this, and no one can blame it on an age difference thing. My parents aren't super young, but we sit around and laugh at dinner and they're not uptight. GAH!!!! stupid familia here. And it's not really the familia, because Enri is so cool, he was on my side, rooting for Roddick silently, but Rossana is the crazy...rubbing it in when Federer won, she knows I hate him...
anyways, tonight was GREAT!!! I loved Lauren's family. And we sat there and talked about music after a while, I talked with Evi about the first times we ever smelled weed at a concert, I told her my KISS story, she told me about her Cypress Hill encounter. It was great! Then we had amazing postre that Lauren bought from Plaza del Carmen, it was AMAZING!!!! We laughed, Esteban made us margaritas, we listened to music, they took videos of Lauren dancing, and Esteban had fun with his funny paper towel holder! Soledad and Evi told us about their trip to Cuba, how it was life changing, how they got to celebrate the 50 anniversary de la revolucion....ah one day, we'll be able to get there legally, for now, flights from cancun are relatively cheap I hear! jajaja It was the best!!!
I sat there and looked over at Natasha a few times and wanted to cry. I feel so great on nights like that, I feel great about humanity, I feel so happy for the future...also, I just get this urge to want to see more of the world, to meet more people, to see how beautiful humanity can be, because the world is amazing and it's actually so small, I want to explore so much of it! just how to make it happen...
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