sr. alvaro reyes

so i am super super cold! my poor toes.

just want to recount a couple things...

one night last week a couple neighbor kids came over to the house. my roommate answered the door and called me downstairs, saying that they wanted to ask us some questions for a school project. there was one, sebastian, and another who was a couple years younger. sebastian did all the talking and the little kid whispered comments to him every so often. so once they laughed and anette and i are like 'what?' and sebastian tells us our house is 'desordenado.' we said no... no it's really not. we're students. one day he will understand. then they tried to tell us that they were 14 and 16 years old. definitely not, they were maybe like 10 and 12. but sebastian said 'yeah, all us chileans are small, you never can tell how old we are.'

then we got ding dong ditched for the rest of the night!

tonight i worked my second show. jorge gonzalez, who is supposedly the father of chilean rock. he even sang a song about how his rock is different than the gringos' rock. 'we are... sudamerican rockers.' then why are you speaking spanglish? ok so really i understand the spanglish thing, but this guy was not good at all. so much for father of rock and roll! he's certainly got nothing on elvis.

but one good thing did come of this incredibly boring show.

while i was packing my stuff and most people had left, an old man who was sitting near me said something to me about 'taking a lot of photos.' so we talk... he tells me he's an artist and shows me this silver ring he wears on his pinky finger. the top part is a circle with a llama's silhouette protruding out. this man, alvaro, tells me some story about how this ring was his mother's and maybe that his mother wore this on her middle finger but he has to wear it on the little finger... maybe about how he's grown up so now he can't wear it on any finger but the pinky. i don't know, i was just caught up in how darn cute he was.

so we exchanged direcciones and now a random cute old man has my address. maybe not such the best idea but... what was i going to do? seriously? he was so cute.