Chau Pekin!

My first class as a cool gradschool student is almost done! woo! One down, like 24 more to go. except, the rest won't be intensive or in english like this one. Real school starts Monday- lots of marketing classes (3) and a finance class. I figured, if I get most of my marketing classes over with at the same time it'll be good because they'll use kind of the same basic vocab words.. ya know. Rather taking all these different classes completely unrelated and having to learn a different basic set of vocab words for all of them... seems a lot harder. If that makes sense.

On Friday, I had a cold.. when am I not sick. Im convinced its because I bite my nails. Bryan thinks thats a dumb reason. Anyway, conveniently the cold was only bad in the morning and at night. So I didnt go out Friday night.

Saturday, I went to a concert with a couple of friends. Id been wanting to go to a concert but wasnt really sure where to find a low key one like an underground one. I mean I dont really want to go see a big band in a soccer stadium and pay a million pesos. My friend Katia, her sister's boyfriend's brother is the guitarrist for this band, Chau Pekin and they were playing a show in this hole in the wall bar. The singer was good, Manu Chau-ish.. kinda. There were like 9 guys in the band and it was like one day a guy got all his friends together and was like well... lets play some music.

haha. I asked Bryan what he though, and we was like " They're very South American." haha hellooo where are we? But anyway, it was a fun experience, seeing some regular guys who loved music and loved singing their songs play. It was more about the music than the show. I like that. That sounds super cheeseball huh.

The horns (sax, trombone.. maybe? Aubs, you were in band.. is this what they are?) were the best part I thought- they added nice little touches to the songs. And the picture above that one is (L to R) Ro, Katia, Bryan, Me and Sol. When we left the bar it was pouring, everyone went home except me and Sol. We went out to this bar Roxy to meet her "student" for the first time. This argentine guys girlfriend is from Norway and he wants to learn norwegian so he can talk to his gf... probably important. Solveig came to the rescue when she saw his ad on Craigslist and now shes going to tutor him. His name is Guille (short for Guillermo), pronounced like Gee but with the G like in "guitar" so Gee-sheh. He was there with a bunch of his friends and once again, we stayed out dancing until 7am. It was this tecno club so even the worst rhythm looks like you dance in style. haha its probably better if you have no rhythm to dance tecno, then you look like you belong. They probably shouldve bumped me to VIP. hahaha.

At the end of the night, I was waiting for my taxi outside the club (you call a taxi in advance to come get you, so you dont end up with some crazy guy off the streets. I think they had a problem with that a few years ago so now no one gets cabs off the street.) and this kid comes up to me and is like hey where you from, (he heard me talking to the taxi company) and I told him the states. Then he freakedd out and was like read my arm! read my arm! So I did, and he had the lyrics to Scarlet Begonias by Sublime tattooed on his arm- and I was like.. uh cool. Then he was like I love Sublime! Lifted up his shirt and he had the bands picture tattoed on his stomach, I asked him where Lou dog was and he almost peed in his pants he was so excited I knew who Lou dog was haha. Then he showed me his "favorite" tattoo.. a naked fat lady , not just chubby but large- and my initial response was ew, shes fat.. why.. would you have that tattooed on you? Its there, forever. I guess the tattoo just completely took me by surprise, I was expecting like a surfer or Jimi Hendrix' face or something. And he looked at me so serious , shocked almost I would ask "why" and was like I love the fat ones. Plus, he was this scrawny kid so that made it worse I think. I mean, whatever, he was happy about his tattoo choice, so thats good.

Sunday it was cold and rainy- soo that called for a Sunday Funday!! It was so nice because it was like I was almost forced in because of the rain. So Sunday Funday happened. Me and Bryan bought some bootleg movies off the street, got some icecream, came home- put on our pijamas, made the apartment really dark and watched movies and drank milkshakes all day with Winston! It was soo great! When was the last time you had a milkshake? exactly :)

Okay, well Im on the hammock writing this and its freezing outside! With the storm, came a cold front, so, Im going to go back inside...