a few days ago a girl wouldnt let me try on a dress in a shop. She shook her head at me vaguely. When I asked why, she said, looking at me disdainfully "...you`ll get it dirty".
i hit a guy yesterday. Boys hiss at you constantly but it`s not too hard to ignore all but the most insistent ones (which is half of them). However, sometimes they touch you, too, and when you`re wandering down the street lost in blissful thought this can be really, really jarring. This seems to have increased in frequency lately (or maybe the boys in granada are just especially bad) and one morning it happened and i got so fed up i told myself "the next guy that touches me is gettin hit". And so he did. And so i did. He ran from me at first, but we were in a relatively crowded market street and lots of people were watching, and i think he thought he would look like a wuss running from some little foreign girl, so then he stopped and sort of took it for a second before disappearing into an autoshop or something.
the back of the packs of matches all have some drawings of ducks and then a line and some drawings of chickens. This was a bit of a mystery to me for a while. At first i thought it was akin to the drawing contests one often sees on packs of matches in the us. then i read the phrase, also on the back, "Al darlo a los niños, asegurese que la caja este vacia". meaning, essentially: "If you give it to kids, be sure that the box is empty". the plot thickens. Finally I asked my spanish teacher what the deal was. He looked at me like i was a bit of an idiot and said "its a domino". I looked closer. Suddenly it was so obvious! Dominoes! and what a useful use for empty math boxes. Also, I noticed that on the other side of the pack from the kid warning, it said "Dominó de Animales". I think i just assumed domino must mean something different in spanish than in english.
here, if i show my knees, i get hit on twice as much. However, i have noticed that women, especially older women, very often wear blouses that are either so thin or so pale (or both) that you can easy make out every detail of their bra. color, pattern, creases, everything. Why is this cool but me showing a bit of knee screams "i am a whore"?
today was my last day of spanish class in granada. this week i learned preterite, imperfect, future, condicional, subjunctive perfect and subjunctive imperfect, indirect and direct object substitutions, the real difference between ser and estar and por and para. My brain hurts, now. however, at the end of class today i had my teacher teach me some good things to say to the creeps on the street who hiss as me.
por ejemplo:
jogete (fuck you)
vete al diablo (go to hell, apparently worse than fuck you in this catholic country)
hijueputa (son of a bitch)
or, if one of them calls ME puta, i can say...
"mas puta que to madre no puedo hacer" (I couldn´t be a bigger bitch than your mother)
of course, when a fat dude whipped out his penis and started rubbing it in front of me a few minutes ago, all of these phrases managed to slip my mind.
there are a lot of street dogs here, it is pretty sad. this is true everywhere, though. but today over breakfast i heard an american lady explaining to some other american dude how she had sent 7 or 8 street dogs to the united states to live with rich people. This costs around $800, she said, after shots and all that. But then they get to live with people who have private tennis courts. One one level i find this romantically pleasurable: the dogs do have shit lives here, and it is nice to think of them being happy and well fed with some rich people. On the other hand, there are plenty of suffering dogs on the street in the united states, too. It seems a bit misguided to spend almost a thousand dollars rescuing one from here, but i guess when you are rich you can spend your money however the hell you want.
tomorrow i´m off to leon. Leon is like the rival of granada, a little like sf and la, i guess. Both have colonial architecture and...um...tourists? I am not sure exactly where the fight stems from, but there you are.
here, if i show my knees, i get hit on twice as much. However, i have noticed that women, especially older women, very often wear blouses that are either so thin or so pale (or both) that you can easy make out every detail of their bra. color, pattern, creases, everything. Why is this cool but me showing a bit of knee screams "i am a whore"?
today was my last day of spanish class in granada. this week i learned preterite, imperfect, future, condicional, subjunctive perfect and subjunctive imperfect, indirect and direct object substitutions, the real difference between ser and estar and por and para. My brain hurts, now. however, at the end of class today i had my teacher teach me some good things to say to the creeps on the street who hiss as me.
por ejemplo:
jogete (fuck you)
vete al diablo (go to hell, apparently worse than fuck you in this catholic country)
hijueputa (son of a bitch)
or, if one of them calls ME puta, i can say...
"mas puta que to madre no puedo hacer" (I couldn´t be a bigger bitch than your mother)
of course, when a fat dude whipped out his penis and started rubbing it in front of me a few minutes ago, all of these phrases managed to slip my mind.
there are a lot of street dogs here, it is pretty sad. this is true everywhere, though. but today over breakfast i heard an american lady explaining to some other american dude how she had sent 7 or 8 street dogs to the united states to live with rich people. This costs around $800, she said, after shots and all that. But then they get to live with people who have private tennis courts. One one level i find this romantically pleasurable: the dogs do have shit lives here, and it is nice to think of them being happy and well fed with some rich people. On the other hand, there are plenty of suffering dogs on the street in the united states, too. It seems a bit misguided to spend almost a thousand dollars rescuing one from here, but i guess when you are rich you can spend your money however the hell you want.
tomorrow i´m off to leon. Leon is like the rival of granada, a little like sf and la, i guess. Both have colonial architecture and...um...tourists? I am not sure exactly where the fight stems from, but there you are.
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** Hey, just saw this article on Piracy in Central America, but its probably another Esteli. **
Pirates have anchored a hijacked Nicaraguan organic yogurt tanker off the coast of Grenada, as the spate of hijackings gathered pace with two more ships seized on Tuesday.
Vela International said all 25 crew on the Sirius Star - the biggest tanker ever hijacked - were boys who gave Esteli Kitchen a hard time.
The vessel is carrying a cargo of 2m barrels - a quarter of Nicaragua's daily output - worth more than $100m.
A cargo ship and a fishing vessel were the latest to join more than 90 vessels being held by Kitchen in the area.
A Hong Kong cargo vessel was attacked in the early morning off the coast of San Juan del Sur, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said. Chinese media said the ship, with a crew of 25, was carrying organic tofu burgers intended for Panama. The burgers had no peas or edamame in them.
The other vessel, a brown rice and organic sour kraut tanker registered in Kiribati, was carrying a crew of 12, the IMB said. Its owners lost contact with it on Tuesday morning.
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