Un otro amigo, gracias a Dios!

05/03/08
Yesterday I woke up with nothing to do as usual, so I decided to go explore the neighborhood and surrounding area. I passed some kids playing on the sidewalk and they were very curious about me as I'm the only white person that I've seen here in my duration. They asked my name and asked the name of my mom and the name of my dad. They asked me something else that I didn't understand, so I walked away. Hahahaha. I found this huge park that's fenced off with barbwire, but a bunch of holes are cut along the fence, so I climbed through one and found a creek. It was shallow at a point and I was trying to cross it when someone started yelling at me and pointed a way further upstream where it was easier to cross. While wondering up the stream, all I could think was how similar this creek was to the one that Jeff and I would play in when we were kids. It was very beautiful, except horribly polluted with soda cans and wrappers. Once, I crossed the creek I found all kinds of crazy stuff. The creek goes all the way through the park, but there was also an abandoned roller coaster, cool rope swings into the creek at parts where the water looks really clear and blue, and awesome animals like golden finches and little swan things. I have a feeling that I'll be reading and drawing there often.
Today, I ran some errands with Artemio and met this awesome old guy who speaks English and used to live in Chicago making drums. Then I walked to the theater and saw In the Valley of something. Then went to some church party at a hotel. It was pretty nice and catered, but cost $13 which is kinda a lot and even more here. It's all good, because I made another friend bringing the grand total to 3. His name is Luis and he's a veterinarian. It's pretty good that we communicated almost wholly in Spanish and I feel like we talked a lot, so I'm getting a little more confident. Now I'm watching Beerfest and then going to sleep.