I'm taking back the streets


I’m taking back the Calle de Antofagasta. Tonight we had friends of Mama Nuevo over for Tesita. We had about 3 servings of sweets and as of 11:35 I do not believe we will be having dinner. I think it’s a good night. The friends that came over turned out to be Maru (I believe that is her nickname, I’ve heard other people call her Maria), Nancy and Anita. Maru is the director of the school, Anita is the English teacher and Nancy is some other teacher associated with the school that we are working at. Maru also brought her mother Ortilla over and her daughter and some guy associated with her daughter. I felt sorry for the guy, the women laughed and joked like a bunch of school girls. He just looked like he regretted ever agreeing to come along. Anita brought her guitar and we ended up spending about 60-90 minutes singing songs in Spanish and a couple of English favorites, “I Believe in Angels” and “What a Wonderful World”. Jake and I did a duet with the later, which seemed to be quite a hit. Anita played a pretty good guitar too.
Some deep part of me makes me hope that the Death-Metal Opera singers were huddled on the other side of our paper thin walls, wondering when the heck we were going to shut up.
Over all, it was a great day. None of the kids set fire to anything, we had a delightful hootenanny with some old teachers and we didn’t have to go to bed with visions of pan and pork dancing in our heads and stomachs.

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