2010's FIRST POST. WOOHOO~!
Two days ago I came back from my hometown and it's so damn good to be back. I will always have great memories about Cali, but it doesn't feel like home anymore. Although I don't know if I could or if I want to call Bogotá "home" either. ^^;
Anyway~ I spent the 31st traveling with my mom and my grandma, and as soon as we hopped off the bus to get lunch in Tolima, I fucking knew what was ahead of me... that sticky, suffocating heat that no lulo juice can cool down and that makes your hair look like a sponge; the merciless sun that looks bigger and yellower; huge buzzing insects all over the place; people wearing SANDALS and HOT PANTS... I was going back to Hell... Okay, maybe it's not Hell, literally, it's just a couple of degrees closer to the equator and some people may like it, but I don't. I had hope though, now I wonder why, but then I still had hope, for it is well known that Ibagué's hotter than Cali... at least the wind blows there... So I had hope...
After nine hours in a bus, my mind started wandering off and I discovered I assign specific colors to different places. For instance, Bogotá's grey-ish, Boyacá's dark brown, Isla Múcura's aquamarine, the Valle del Cauca's green-yellow-ish. So, after making my New Year epic discovery, I decided it was healthy to read a book. OTL
We got "home" at 7 pm. It was hot and my buttocks had mingled into one single buttock after an eleven hour trip. I was a sweating fountain, so I told myself it was because of the ride in bus and I took a long cold shower, which made me feel as good as almost new.. for half an hour...
But before that, the family. My grandpa picked us up at the bus station and took us home. He was just like I remembered him >w<. My dog, my beautiful Sarabi greeted me when we got out of the cab. I was so happy to see her. She's a golden labrador, but her head's all white already! She's 12 years old now, I think she's deaf and she can barely walk after her hip surgery, but she's still my baby~ Then my uncle. I think I subconsciously wanted to grow up to be like him when I was a kid and I just realized about that when I visited these holidays. He's the coolest guy in my family, not to mention he's a genius. My cousin and her mother were there too, but that's another story that involves my cousin's boyfriend, and my mother and grandmother's broken ilusion of a family portrait made of the dysfunctional members of my dysfunctional family... so I'd better drop the subject. ^^;
So yeah, my cold shower was nice~ Then I started unpacking. First, my laptop, of course! Who needs clothes when you've got a laptop! Hmm... who needs clothes on that weather... Anyway, I had to check if my laptop had survived the journey and if I could get some interwebz there. The laptop was fine, but I had no interwebz. A couple of days later I'd find out there was wireless at home, but it belonged to my cousin's boyfriend, so I didn't ask.
So, it was an interwebless week for me. What did I do? I sprawled myself on my aunt's bed - yes I claimed that bed to be mine for the week - and rolled from one side to the other when it was too hot and I wanted a fresh spot on the mattress. Yes, it was like that. I said I had hope... well my hope was on its way back to Bogotá on January the 1st. This is how things were the whole damned week: I woke up, went downstairs, had breakfast, went upstairs again, watched some TV, went downstairs again, had lunch, went upstairs, took a shower, watched TV till it was bedtime. And still I was sweating! I sweat because I was lying in bed and the sheets got too hot!!! ;A;
But I must admit I'm a masochist, so I had to get out of my relatively fresh shelter... three times. First: I had to get a new haircut. Second: I ate an ice cream with Sarita and Juli. I got home with my armpits SOAKED in sweat. >A< Third: I had to visit my father's grandmother. Summary: Grandmother cried because she hadn't seen me in years and she spoke really bad of my father's wife/girlfriend/partner/whatever, uncle was cool, I was utterly uncomfortable the whole time and I found out my long lost brother is A FUCKING REDHEAD! SRSLY, WTF, GENES?! WHY IS HE A REDHEAD AND I'M NOT?! *Curls up in emo corner*. I got new shoes from my father's mother, though. After that I ate dinner with Alejandra, Anita, Clarita and Vik.
Here I must say, if there's something I miss, that is the food. The lulos, the arepas, the plantain, the sancocho, the cholaos, the chontaduros, the empanadas, the pork chops... I'll stop because I'm drooling.
There are some other things I think I missed, like they guy selling "¡MAZAMORRA Y CHAMPUS!" on Sunday mornings, the accent, the cicadas, the palm trees, the kapoks, the jacarandas, the samans...
And some things I didn't miss at all: bullfights, the perfect and fake breasts, butts, abbs, noses and tans, the cockroaches and the bedbugs.
So I came back and I can proudly say that all I did in Cali was to catch up on some stuff I had to watch. I watched The Venture Brothers' S1, some movies starring August Diehl AKA my current obsession and five episodes of The Master and Margarita. Oh! And I think I caught my cousin's virus... OTL
Anyway, long post is long and it's almost midnight, so I'm off to bed. Good night~
Anyway~ I spent the 31st traveling with my mom and my grandma, and as soon as we hopped off the bus to get lunch in Tolima, I fucking knew what was ahead of me... that sticky, suffocating heat that no lulo juice can cool down and that makes your hair look like a sponge; the merciless sun that looks bigger and yellower; huge buzzing insects all over the place; people wearing SANDALS and HOT PANTS... I was going back to Hell... Okay, maybe it's not Hell, literally, it's just a couple of degrees closer to the equator and some people may like it, but I don't. I had hope though, now I wonder why, but then I still had hope, for it is well known that Ibagué's hotter than Cali... at least the wind blows there... So I had hope...
After nine hours in a bus, my mind started wandering off and I discovered I assign specific colors to different places. For instance, Bogotá's grey-ish, Boyacá's dark brown, Isla Múcura's aquamarine, the Valle del Cauca's green-yellow-ish. So, after making my New Year epic discovery, I decided it was healthy to read a book. OTL
We got "home" at 7 pm. It was hot and my buttocks had mingled into one single buttock after an eleven hour trip. I was a sweating fountain, so I told myself it was because of the ride in bus and I took a long cold shower, which made me feel as good as almost new.. for half an hour...
But before that, the family. My grandpa picked us up at the bus station and took us home. He was just like I remembered him >w<. My dog, my beautiful Sarabi greeted me when we got out of the cab. I was so happy to see her. She's a golden labrador, but her head's all white already! She's 12 years old now, I think she's deaf and she can barely walk after her hip surgery, but she's still my baby~ Then my uncle. I think I subconsciously wanted to grow up to be like him when I was a kid and I just realized about that when I visited these holidays. He's the coolest guy in my family, not to mention he's a genius. My cousin and her mother were there too, but that's another story that involves my cousin's boyfriend, and my mother and grandmother's broken ilusion of a family portrait made of the dysfunctional members of my dysfunctional family... so I'd better drop the subject. ^^;
So yeah, my cold shower was nice~ Then I started unpacking. First, my laptop, of course! Who needs clothes when you've got a laptop! Hmm... who needs clothes on that weather... Anyway, I had to check if my laptop had survived the journey and if I could get some interwebz there. The laptop was fine, but I had no interwebz. A couple of days later I'd find out there was wireless at home, but it belonged to my cousin's boyfriend, so I didn't ask.
So, it was an interwebless week for me. What did I do? I sprawled myself on my aunt's bed - yes I claimed that bed to be mine for the week - and rolled from one side to the other when it was too hot and I wanted a fresh spot on the mattress. Yes, it was like that. I said I had hope... well my hope was on its way back to Bogotá on January the 1st. This is how things were the whole damned week: I woke up, went downstairs, had breakfast, went upstairs again, watched some TV, went downstairs again, had lunch, went upstairs, took a shower, watched TV till it was bedtime. And still I was sweating! I sweat because I was lying in bed and the sheets got too hot!!! ;A;
But I must admit I'm a masochist, so I had to get out of my relatively fresh shelter... three times. First: I had to get a new haircut. Second: I ate an ice cream with Sarita and Juli. I got home with my armpits SOAKED in sweat. >A< Third: I had to visit my father's grandmother. Summary: Grandmother cried because she hadn't seen me in years and she spoke really bad of my father's wife/girlfriend/partner/whatever, uncle was cool, I was utterly uncomfortable the whole time and I found out my long lost brother is A FUCKING REDHEAD! SRSLY, WTF, GENES?! WHY IS HE A REDHEAD AND I'M NOT?! *Curls up in emo corner*. I got new shoes from my father's mother, though. After that I ate dinner with Alejandra, Anita, Clarita and Vik.
Here I must say, if there's something I miss, that is the food. The lulos, the arepas, the plantain, the sancocho, the cholaos, the chontaduros, the empanadas, the pork chops... I'll stop because I'm drooling.
There are some other things I think I missed, like they guy selling "¡MAZAMORRA Y CHAMPUS!" on Sunday mornings, the accent, the cicadas, the palm trees, the kapoks, the jacarandas, the samans...
And some things I didn't miss at all: bullfights, the perfect and fake breasts, butts, abbs, noses and tans, the cockroaches and the bedbugs.
So I came back and I can proudly say that all I did in Cali was to catch up on some stuff I had to watch. I watched The Venture Brothers' S1, some movies starring August Diehl AKA my current obsession and five episodes of The Master and Margarita. Oh! And I think I caught my cousin's virus... OTL
Anyway, long post is long and it's almost midnight, so I'm off to bed. Good night~