Much better!
- Thursday: Got up early, drove with my mom to work, picked up Bidkar on the way. OH, by the way, my mom got really sick! I don't know what she had, but she was trembling and feeling horrible. I'm really glad she's OK now. Anyway, we got to work, and we kinda worked on the program we have to do for 4 hours straight. Then I went home, and worked on the web page til maybe 14, when I was called by JV from NH, asking for an urgen meeting that afternoon or the other day. I decided on that afternoon, so I left for NH at 3. I got a receipt from MM (big receipt, 2nd largest so far), and got there. I got more work from them (5 setup guides and 2 labs, Q50/setup guide, Q25/lab module). I think that... if everything goes well, I'll amount to maybe Q750 for this. I promised 3 setup guides for Monday, gave them the receipt (hoping they'll have a check soon), and then I rushed to my European Literature class. I listened to Dr. Cordón (I really respect him, he knows a lot! Like at least 8 languages and history and literature, AND he's actually a pediatrician!) til 17, and then I left for my choir class. I don't know if I've mentioned it, but I'm the only guy in the class... and 2 of the girls are REALLY GOOD-LOOKING. Blonde, white & kinda loose clothes, green eyes, WOW! Very appetizing. I talked to one of them before the class started. (Speaking of girls, I saw one outside the building with legs AS THIN AS MY WRIST. I'M NOT KIDDING... of course I didn't measure them or anything... but she wore a pair of kinda tight jeans (not that tight), and her legs looked thin as anything. Honest, I'm SO SURE her knees were no wider than my wrist... and her thighs were JUST AS WIDE!! Still, she looked really good.) Well, then I had choir class, but in the middle of it, I remembered I had a test coming up at 18, and I had not read even one complete page of the chapter we were suppsed to know. I just thought "DAMN!", took the chapter out of my bag, and began reading the chapter at the same time I sang with the choir. It was hard. I left at 18 for the test, I had some more time to read some more, (and I paid Q15 to get into the AECC), but still, I sucked at the test. Later, the CC gang stopped for some tortillas with meat & guacamole (they call them tacos) and some beer (YUCK!). Since my life's on a healthy stage, I just watched them eat and drink. Then I came back home and worked on the web page til 2 or 3 in the morning.
- Friday: Left with my mom late (maybe 7:30), picked up Bidkar at the Shell, and got there at 8:20 or so. Not THAT late. Well, Oscar checked our program til then, and he kinda said: 'It's OK, I like it", but he didn't sound so convinced. Well, Bidkar left at 13, but I stayed til 4 tuning up the program, cause it's my only full-time day of the week. Well, I went to the bank and got out Q550 to pay for several things. Then, I took a 63 bus on the Reforma, and on the bus I met this big, big girl who didn't seem at all Guatemalan. Some man offered to take her bag, but she just said "NOoo!. No españool, pooor faavooor". Then she smiled at me, so I started talking to her in english. I though she had a british accent, so I asked her if she was from the UK, but she said "NO, I'm from Germany". I tried to practice some german with her, but then she began looking out the window, said bye and left. too bad, she looked nice. Well, I got to college at maybe 17 (very early), and maybe this part of the day is the most interesting one. I found a certain classmate, Matzdorf, sitting on a bench listening music, doing nothing. So I went and talked to him for almost an hour straight. We talked mostly about computer jobs, how he's been looking for one, but hasn't yet been able to get one. I told him about some of the jobs I've done, and bla bla bla. Then, HANS WUG CAME!!!!! AND HE GAVE ME THE PADS!!!!!! I'M SO SO SO SO SO SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!! I paid up (Q555 is still cheaper than they are here in Guatemala), and he gave me the big PO Box with the two pads and the PS/PC USB adapter. It was all packaged in a box, and barely 5 minutes had passed when MM called me, saying he wouldn't go to class. He's become my ride home every day, so I had to leave early that day. So I took everything out of the PO Box, somehow stuffed it in my bag (along with two Pollo Campero shirts, a pair of shoes, copies of the Simulation book chapter 2, my piano and my choir music sheets, my toothbrush, toothpaste, 3 or 4 razor blades), and began thinking how was I going to get home. Then, out of anywhere, Claudia appeared. She's a nice-looking 3rd year girl, skinny, not-so-long black hair, white skin, well, nice. She called out to me saying I really looked different with long hair, we started talking, but then she sorta pulled me along with her to the labs below. She knows german (she learned french and german for a whole semester instead of going to college, a VERY VERY wise decision, I'd like to do it too), so I practiced some with her on the way. She found a jacket she had forgotten at one of the labs, and then I remembered she lives not 5 blocks away from my house. I asked her for a ride, but she said she was going partying that night. I remembered how partying was like once, and we kept walking. She met some friends on the way, and I stayed there with them, talking, thinking how was I getting home. Then, two more girls appeared and began talking with the girls I was already with. One of them was Ollie, a third-year girl in Food Engineering (that's the translation). They left kinda soon, but then I thought, HEY! Ollie's path is exactly my path! Path home, I mean. She also lives in San Cristobal. So after I while I said bye to the other girls and left running to find Ollie. Whom I found. She agreed to give me a ride after calling her mom, we waited for her mom, and then we left. (A strange thing had happened with her. Last December, I was in the Boston airport doing time for my next flight, and I met her and her whole family. It was really weird... I wasn't supposed to be in Boston, and she wasn't supposed to be in Boston... but still, there we were... and we met together). So, I chatted pleasantly with Ollie and her mom for a while, and on Blvd. Liberación, the car slowed down, and then I saw the windshield, and just beyond it I could see smoke coming out of the car. Overheated. OK. We checked it out, and then a Transit cop came and towed us to a corner of the street below a bridge, where we didn't block a whole lane. We waited it out a bit, brought water from a nearby faucet with Ollie's bottle, and then moved on. We made it til Las Charcas. Then the car overheated again. We got into the parking lot for a chinese restaurant, where we were greeted in a very very friendly way by the watchman, who told us, had worked at a gas station before. He got us to the nearest faucet, he helped us cool the car down, and he was giving us all sorts of advice about what to do and what not to. The car really took a lot of water to cool down this time. And time, too. The watchman diagnosed the car, and told us the ventilation helices weren't working. He seemed to know a lot about it. Ollie's mom then called a tow truck, which we waited til maybe 21. Ollie and me talked about several things during that time, and she told me the car was going to be lifted up the truck, and we were riding in the car!! I was really excited. Also during that time, Ollie's brother came, brought by a friend and his dad. Well, finally, the tow truck came, the car was lifted up, we said goodbye to the nice watchman, and we moved on again. The ride was cool! There was nobody in the driver's seat, and we were moving all the same!! It was like going on a rollercoaster... really cool. They dropped me off at a gas station near my house (I felt sad to leave the tow truck ride), and then I got home, and worked on the web page til 2 or 3 in the morning.
- Saturday: I woke up, and mainly, worked on the web page all day. Interesting stuff include going to Paiz, trying to get my dog to a pet shop so they could shave him and cut his nails and clean him up (but it was too late already), buying a birthday present for Gema (8 green pens, I owed her one anyway), trying to make a very very old prepaid phone card work and being rejected at two stores, buying a new prepaid phone card at one of them... and I also packaged the pens on top of a cardboard box, doing kind of a fan-shape. And then I worked on the web page til 1. Oh, and Marcos came by and checked on the web page (it wasn't much yesterday, so he didn't make any comments). And that was mostly it.
- Sunday:That would be... yesterday. It's already past midnight just writing this blog. How sad. Anyway, today I worked from 10 til 4 straight. Hmm, no, my cousin Joel and her mom (Tía Aury) came by to pick up a mattress at 12. And Joel wanted to know if there were any MSDN courses I could give him to do. I don't have any right now, so I just kinda said no. Well, then I worked til 4. Then my cousin Mauricio called me and told me he wanted some more math-tutoring for his final exams. I think he's becoming dependent of me. I REALLY HOPE HE ISN'T. Well, I had to take a shower, give him some classes, and then I worked on the web page til about 21:30. Then I did the MSDN Setup Guide (the only one I have available), and then I began doing this blog. Which is not as descriptive as some others, reason for which I apologize. But I have not exercised my memory so as to remember a whole week with brimming detail, as some people I know claim to do. But I hope that, with this unstressful epoch coming up, I'll go back to doing these blogs. It's been fun.
bye then
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