Today, I made waves. En serio.
Okay, not really. I just went to a concierto con mi amiga (Hi Conchita: her codename. When you're making moments you've GOTTA have/use codenames). I'll tell you why it was a moment:
So, today I had to get up early (at 8am...early) to go to a meeting with my project advisor (codename Ann) at 10am in the neighboring city: Viña del Mar-Vinyard of the sea. I'm 2 min. late, but that's okay because no one was in the building we were going to use so we went to her casa (bonita). 1 hour and a half later we're done with our enlightening conversation about diversity and her old house that they're redoing.
I head back home con hambre y sueño. Which do you conquer first? HUNGER. I eat, check my email (she's send me more articles to read), watch an episode of NCIS (!!!) and take a nap...more like sleep for many hours. I didn't bother to set my alarm because I was pooped so I'd sleep until I could sleep no more. Forget going to church or doing ANYTHING.
I went to church. I was fighting with myself because I really wanted to go but I already WALKED UP MY DAGGONE HILL (this is something NO ONE does. It's so steep that even the busses have issues with getting up.) and I didn't want to go down again. I shook off the sleepies and went. But...
BUT....
but before I left, I got a message that made my moment. My friend was going to a concert for the Astros (a Santiago band) and invited some friends to go. I know nothing of this band and had never heard of them. I responded with a YES. We'll see how this goes.
So after church I have plans to go to a rockin' electronic concert in SPANISH. However....
HOWEVER...
however, when I meet up with Conchita, she has a very vague idea where it is. Boy was it an adventure. I tried helping by asking the following questions: "Where is it?"- En esta calle, con esta direccion- But the address did not exist. What is the name of the place? -Don't remember.- We walked up and down the streets for about 30 interesting minutes. She was super determined to go to the concierto and so was I...back to my house. I had already waited 15 minutes for her and I thought that the concierto would have started, but by the time we walked around looking super lost (because we were), asked questions from people we THOUGHT were knowledgeable (turns out they just looked pretty) we literally stumbled upon the concierto!
It was great. I danced (in my seat. Chileans can be fome-slang for boring- when it comes to pretty rock out concerts. No one seems to be feelin' it. But maybe that's just me). The lights were crazy and there was a song with a jungle theme. Quite fantastic. Afterwards...
AFTERWARDS...
afterwards, I bought an empanada and hot chocolate!!! Nunca compro comida en las calles (soy prudente), pero hoy, me decidí que no debo hold myself back 'cause yo tenía hambrecito. En serio.
I say this is a moment because I had work to do, definitely was being lazy that day and did not feel like walking about, I chose to ignore all that for just a few minutes/hours and enjoy the moment I was being given. I didn't want an opportunity to pass and I'd be back in my green pieza eating fish and reading about Chilenization (check it out. Quite interesante).
So, I am very happy with this day and made some moments. The talk we had afterwards was the best conversation I'd had in a while. I decided that I wasn't going to rush it and was going to spend time with a friend and not worry about missing onces with my fam. I was here, in a vegitarian restaurante (El Jardin de la Profeta) drinking hot chocolate and watching nightfall. Que rico.
Eso. That's is. Se acabó.
Until la próxima vez,
Make some moments. Eat empanadas (de pino. I'm partial).
Massive Moment Maker
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