Time Bomb

One great thing about this hemisphere is that we still celebrate the ravaging of the Americas by Columbus, so I didn't have to work! Meaning I got to experience la Bomba de Tiempo for the first time, which, as Kelly has mentioned, is every Monday at 8 or so in Konex. It is a drum circle of some of the best musicians in the city, plus several hundred crazed (and surely drugged) fanatics gyrating and jumping and going to any length to try to identify with the beat. It is impossible to explain. I had somehow convinced Carolina and Andrea, two of my bartender friends from Sugar, to come with us, and we were all completely soaked through with sweat by the end, so naturally, we got pizza.

The pizza was fabulous...the experience, a little off-beat. Halfway through the meal the lights went out and the black crushed velvet curtains parted to reveal...a puppet show. That might have been funny, I don't know, I was too distressed to pay attention to the Spanish. So we called it an early night and returned to our bunk beds.

In other news, life here is good. The new house is relaxing and we're getting used to it, lots of interesting, cheap restaurants nearby and a much more bohemian feel in the neighborhood. My Spanish is improving rapidly thanks to working at the bar and going on a few dates with a Peruvian who speaks 0 English. I've picked up more hours teaching English and still enjoy that, but I'm thinking about possibly going back to taking a Spanish course for some more practice since I have more outlets to use it now. Or picking up Portuguese. We shall see.