you know how once summer break ended and school started there was always this one teacher who made you write what you did that summer? maybe more than one? well, i promise i’m not in school anymore >.O
OKAY. so.
this summer…i came to venezuela!
the first week here was…weird. in fact, the first month here was kinda depressing. i’d definitely gotten my hopes up too high about what life would be like here. it’s not that it’s anything badd..just a change. for example: “red traffic light? what red traffic light?”, “where did you buy that milk?”, and umm..”wow you have a lot of cd’s, people who have original cd’s here are the rich people.” seriously, in EVERY street corner there’s a vendor selling ripped cd’s/dvd’s/videogames.
so that’s how it was weird…but it was fun, too..finally being able to have cousins and all this family.
my great grandma’s funeral (94) was kind of amusing, since you would overhear “so, who’s that again?” every few minutes.
something we all found out about people here: they like. to stare. so much so, in fact, that my mom & i have developed a term for those people who like to stare (read as: everyone)..they are called…the lookers. we go walking around the streets of barquisimeto and constantly whisper “lookersss” to each other. it’s what we do to cope. don’t judge.
not everything in this city is different from the U.S., though..if you have cable you can see almost all those american shows and almost always in the original English language (with subtiles), and if you go to this one mall on a weekend at night…well, there’s just as many hipsters as there are in any U.S. city.

things i miss:
fast, reliable internet
barnes & noble
having a.c. in places like…houses, buildings, buses
starbucksss
people speaking english (we have to sort of mask this otherwise who knows who may be listening and thinks we’re rich and yeah..)

ok! i’m really hungry now so i’ll be off.

p.s. pictures can be seen here and here