De repente
My face seems a little smaller, my cheeks a little tighter. My eyes are bigger, or perhaps only wider. I can't help but stare and stare into the mirror trying to figure out what it is about myself that's changed. It is good, and this time around Mexico has been kinder. Or I have become older and a little wiser. Probably both.
Either way this city is warm and vibrating with life. Cars and green buses bursting toxic smoke in our smiling faces, tiny taco stands lighting up the predawn skies while families mill about at 2 in the morning as if it were 10 at night. I want to capture this all on film and add the right music, cut the right shots then play it so everyone else in my world can experiance this too. But still you wouldn't be able to smell the air and feel its high altitude coolness. So I guess this will have to wait until I am in front of you and explaining it all in animated gestures and showing you pictures of all thats happened within 3 weeks. It would be dramatic to say I am a different person, but I have always been prone to theater so safely I will say somethings are different and it is nothing visible or anything I can give words too. But I think when anyone leaves areas of comfort change is inevitable, nothing shocking, really. It hasn't been that long.
Unfortunately I don't believe my Spanish is that much better. I really need to study it formally. It would help to have the foundation down instead of all these random phrases, words, and expressions, constantly running through my head. I am understanding about 60% of what I hear which is better than none, but still alot can be lost in that 40%.
I hope to be traveling outside of the city soon. Maybe to surrounding cities or states. Things here are slow and hurried all at once. Time moves quickly, but people take it slowly. There are other things to say, but it would be better if they were accompanied with pictures. So later.
Either way this city is warm and vibrating with life. Cars and green buses bursting toxic smoke in our smiling faces, tiny taco stands lighting up the predawn skies while families mill about at 2 in the morning as if it were 10 at night. I want to capture this all on film and add the right music, cut the right shots then play it so everyone else in my world can experiance this too. But still you wouldn't be able to smell the air and feel its high altitude coolness. So I guess this will have to wait until I am in front of you and explaining it all in animated gestures and showing you pictures of all thats happened within 3 weeks. It would be dramatic to say I am a different person, but I have always been prone to theater so safely I will say somethings are different and it is nothing visible or anything I can give words too. But I think when anyone leaves areas of comfort change is inevitable, nothing shocking, really. It hasn't been that long.
Unfortunately I don't believe my Spanish is that much better. I really need to study it formally. It would help to have the foundation down instead of all these random phrases, words, and expressions, constantly running through my head. I am understanding about 60% of what I hear which is better than none, but still alot can be lost in that 40%.
I hope to be traveling outside of the city soon. Maybe to surrounding cities or states. Things here are slow and hurried all at once. Time moves quickly, but people take it slowly. There are other things to say, but it would be better if they were accompanied with pictures. So later.