Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up once during the
night, woke up at 6am and got up at 6:30.
I dropped off my dirty laundry with Beatriz and then I ran
into Jhon while having my usual breakfast at Los Mejores. I invited him
to join me for the English club that’s downtown on Thursday nights. He said he would like to but I’ll have to
remind him again. I followed that up
with an orange juice at Redd’s. I tried to withdraw some cash from the ATM
machine but I got an “unsuccessful transaction - institution is unavailable”
message. I studied some Spanish at
LM. They have an electronic reminder on
their television sets that the name of the mall is Laureles Mall; no “de”
meaning “of”.
Harry stopped by and asked
me to stop at his new apartment late Thursday afternoon to help him with his
computer. On my way to Jhon’s office I
tried again to withdraw some cash but got the same message again.
During the Spanish lesson – reflexive verbs – we heard a
fire cracker go off in the street almost directly across from us. Jhon opened the door and stepped outside but
I remained inside and just looked. Some
movement on a 4th floor balcony caught my eye and I saw a young
woman come out naked from the waist down.
Jhon confirmed what I saw.
After class I took a bus to Oviedo and on the way up the hill I ran into
Marcela, my neighbor. We stopped and
chatted for a second and I learned her office is in the mall.
I met John and Pilar Metzger at the Oviedo food court at 1pm and we went up to Crepes & Waffles for lunch. John is retired; they just sold their house,
and are seriously thinking of retiring to Medellin. Pilar is Colombian and has a brother working
in town. They will be leaving Friday to
visit a few southern Colombian cities including Cali.
John suggested we get together again for lunch in my neighborhood after
they return and I offered to show them my apartment. They put the tab on their charge card and I
gave them 20mil in cash.
I went upstairs and saw the 3:20 showing of The Fault in our Stars for 9mil plus a
small popcorn and medium soda for 11,700.
There were at least a dozen people in the theater. It’s a good movie; definitely a chick flick;
and it doesn’t exactly have a happy ending.
After the movie I walked a couple blocks to the building my
dentist’s office is in, took some money out of the Citibank ATM there and made
a payment to my dentist. I still owe 245,000
pesos.
I was back in the apartment by 7pm where I finished half of
the pineapple that I had remaining.
T-shirt of the day: Life is a party
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