The First Hit

So it’s been a while since I have posted, I know. So I think the last I posted was when we got to our Tonja the first day, so there is a lot to fill you in on! So after that day, we were in the breakfast area and a girl came in asking for some coffee milk and sugar. We showed her where they were and then she asked us where she could take a shower because the other girls in her room were still sleeping and she didn’t want to wake them. We showed her a shower that was available to use and she thanked us immensely. After breakfast, we all went back to our room and left the door open.  After a bit, she came out of the bathroom and saw us sitting in our room (it was right next to the bathroom).  She chatted it up a bit and invited us to dinner later that night at about 8. So we went about our day and made our way over to a “locotorio” which I guess is somewhat akin to a cyber café, which I had never seen before. It was interesting, we had a little 1,5x1,5m box that had a phone in in for calls and a light switch, that was all. So Jenna and Tonja and I all smashed ourselves in this little tiny area (very much emphasized the word squished) tried calling one of the numbers that we had found on the internet to get a house and the number didn’t go through (,10E) and there were more calls that either didn’t go through or just went to voicemail. Eventually Jenna called a guy here of a friend of a friend and he said he might have a place for us. So he gave us her number and we then called her. She said she had 3 rooms available and would be willing to let us see it that day. GREAT, we all thought.

 So we Google map the place and see that it is not within walking distance, meaning we have to take the metro: Our first time with that one. So we plot our route and make our way towards the metro. As we got there we saw that we had to buy tickets (duh) before we got on the metro. So we do that and it pops out a little card with a foil strip down the center.  We bought a pack of ten because it is most logical because we are going to be going there and back with 3 people, that’s 6 trips for those of you who don’t like math. So we make our way on to the metro, which is actually a really cool, but hard to explain. It’s my first time on a metro, but most of you have probably used a subway before. Anyway, we make it to our stop on the metro and we get of the tunnel. We have the names of a few streets and no direction. We ask the first person we see and he says to follow him, he thinks it’s about two blocks straight ahead. We end up walking with him for about that distance before he tells us that it should be down this street to the left a few blocks. Tonja and I go to cross the street and the “go” green cross dude started flashing so we ran, Jenna stayed. As we made it to the other side, we looked back and saw there was an older fellow talking to her. I just figure they are making conversation.  As the cross dude turns back to green and Jenna high-tail’s it over to us and says that she just got propositioned for sex. We were all laughing so hard.

As we were walking down the street, Jenna noticed (and told us later) that there were a mom and her two daughters who were standing in the park. She looks at her daughters and says “ok, there are three of them and they look American” Jenna immediately looks over there and they just stare at her. She kept an eye on them until we were out of range and nothing ended up happening, thank goodness. So we eventually make it to the place and go in to check it out. It was a really nice place with an old lady who only spoke Spanish. We looked at the three rooms and they were all really nice. It was a great set up, except we realized that this was in the neighborhood called besós which is a neighborhood like NE Portland. Very sketch and walk-in-no-less-than-a-group-of-3 kind of place. So we decided that it may be a place if it comes down to the wire. We say our adios and make our way back home.

I’m going to cut this one short tonight, there is much more to tell you about, but it will have to wait tell I get a little more situated.Definitely a lot sooner than this one xD  Let me express that this is NOT the end of the night by any means =] Ok Hope you enjoyed the read, and sorry for the late post!

Hasta Luego!

Fuego