Saturday, July 30  

The sun was bright, I was glowing and out of it. Went for a walk to clear my head, got some breakfast, a hot girl was looking my way, I smiled and left. At la casa while the gang ate pizza. They all had a jab at my expense. I laughed with them.

Sat at the couch and spent my day killing mosquitoes, Kleiver & Josue came home.

"You're wanted by Alicia, she wants you over at her house ASAP" Kleiver laughed.

"I'll go soon"

Walked around to checkout the tourists, Kliever lent me 10 pesos for an 'esquite', a cup full of corn, with mayo, lemon and chilli, and my only food for the day, I was bugging to see Alicia again, had a shot of Mezcal and went back to hers.

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I return her underwear, we sit on the bed and talk about her life, I lay on her bed and we make out. She has innocent eyes and the softest skin, we go crazy, we sleep naked, mosquitoes keep us up, in the morning she hurts so we do everything else, i reach nirvana, ahh, i hold her head down. I made a mark on her neck and her french housemate couple notice, the wife is not impressed but we don't care, we get a coffee and a sandwich; she's wearing a black top, jeans and sunglasses. Its obvious we are together.



I finally decide to buy my ticket and leave. It's funny how things are, find what i'm looking for and decide to leave. Typical.

We part ways in the corner to our houses and I get lost amongst the crowded and noisy streets looking for the bus depot. I buy my ticket, leaving at 9:30 p.m, with time to kill I go back to the house. No one expects me to leave, but my things are packed and ready, Sharmin comes over and we get some Mezcal to celebrate. On the way we see Alicia talking to Rene and his newly pregnant swiss girlfriend. Alicia doesnt notice us so we follow her until she does, she comes over for some goodbye shots, she tells me she's missed me.

Pena gets home..

"You're not leving today!" he shouts.

He is worked up and upset, he grabs my stuff and locks it in his room then proposes I change my ticket and leave tomorrow with him to his hometown in 'El Istmo'. We run to the bus depot, the lady at the counter is difficult but Pena won't give up, after arguing for 20 minutes the manager comes out and asks what the problem is, he agrees to change my ticket to 'Juchitan' and refund the difference. Pena is sweating.



We get back to a full house, Lobo is there and wants to know the stat, he's glad I havent left yet, so is Josue, Candido and Soraya - Mezcal is drunk, Jaranas are played, everyone is singing or playing a beat.



I pass out on the couch but Alicia wakes me up and Joe reads us some poems.



Alicia takes some shrooms and we talk a lot, she really likes me, telling me im her best lover and such, we relate. The night degenerates until everyone is passed out or talking about something random. I walk Alicia to her house and stay over, I dont expect anything to happen but it happens anyway.

"You have to come visit me in the city", I agree.

In the morning we make out some more, she falls asleep and I leave without saying goodbye, steal a bottle of juice from the fridge on my way out and run to get my bus, waving a final goodbye to the Casa Rasta.

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The attempted car theft and my drunken stupor after the Mezcal earn me a reputation across the town, I do nothing to dispell the rumours of being a drunken thief, any publicity is good publicity they say.

I'm waiting for my fried eggs of 15 pesos and drinking my tejate, a cold chocolate and cinnammon drink with cornflower that hits the spot after a big night of drinking. There's a guy playing marimbas outside.

I feel lost, I feel happy.

Last night was eventful, Lobo did a lecture at the UniTierra and I went to watch.



The whole gang was there, as well as the pretty gringo Megan and the owner of the Casa Rasta, Luisa. Lobo discussed the composition and conception of contemporary novels, how they came to be, when different themes were introduced etc. He's brilliant. The gringo guy was there too and eyeing Alicia, he wanted to get some and it was obvious.



Had tacos with Alicia and Josue for 4 pesos each, I ate three. Bought a bottle of Mezcal at Palenqueros, got a one hour lesson on the fabrication of Mezcal from the owner; whose family has been making the brew for over 500 years. It's truly fascinating. He loves telling his stories, we bought a half litre but he gave us 750 mls in an elegant bottle. He invited us to the ranch to watch the process on Saturday, we told him we'd try.



Alicia and I went back to hers to drink, we talked about life and love, she asked if she could kiss me, I nodded and we kissed. It was delicious. The pretentious gringo showed up, he could tell something was going on and got freaked out, he made plans to leave and asked if we wanted him to come back, "only if you being some weed" I said. He left.



We went back to the Casa Rasta. I was grinning and hyped, everyone was there, I ran into Lobo's room and jumped around, "Its the Australian! Woo!" everyone laughed. I danced and sung and danced and passed out. Alicia woke me up. Shrooms were being handed out, I took some and got into bed. Alicia got in with me, I gave her some shrooms, we made out, we made out all the way and it was great

   [ posted by Mr.P @ 10:22 ] 0 Comments

Casa Rasta. Achilles just got home, he's the scary black gatekeeper, but he likes me, tho he'll never admit it. I'm teaching a spanish guy guitar, last night was quiet, Lobo got home late and had no keys so I had to wake up and let him in. There's a white pigeon walking around the rubbish scatered on the patio floor, the flowers are bright and colourful, the sun is shining and the sky is a delicious blue.

Two nights ago we had a party, Candido and the band of drummers and girls came to play after the Jazz gig, Alicia was here, she's 32 and has a son, she's light skinned with short red hair, I could relate to her. We went driving to look for a porno bar after the party. Rene, Josue, Alicia, some gringo and I. There was a fight over where we would go, Alicia stopped the car and Rene got out, Josue followed, they were screaming on the street, I was feeling naughty, I told the gringo to "get the fuck out!" and drove off with the car, but Alicia caught on after a couple of blocks and ran after me, at least I stopped the fight.

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The Mezcal festival was a hoot, Miguel and I went together after the street processions, he's a psychedellic artist from Portugal and could not believe his eyes.. flabbergasted by everything he saw, his eyes were shining as he took in the crazy storybook that is Oaxaca.

I had a shot with the Governor of the city, he's not a good man, but I was drunk, he came up to me with his band of T.V and newspaper cameras and put his arm around me as I had a shot at one of the stalls.

I went along with it, though I would have loved to have thrown it at his face, he's the man responsible for the human rights abuses in Oaxaca, basically if anyone or anything is against him, he silences them whether through kidnappings or worse. Regardless, it was the inauguration and a photo op for him. I got interviewed for television, "what do you think of the state, where are you from, do you like mezcal?" Miguel got interviewed too, we laughed and laughed, I dont remember what I said and I never got to watch the interview on air.

We met two pretty girls who instantly took a liking to us, 'Rosa and Diosa' we called them (the rose and the godess), they invited us to a club and I dragged Miguel along. They shouted us beers and food, we danced, but they wouldnt kiss us because they had boyfriends, so we left. I stumbled home late, the neighbours saw me and commented on it the next day, they thought it was funny.

I complained to Josue, "why take us to a club if you have a boyrfriend?! stupid women, fft, im schrdunk, im goin to slepp.." and passed out.

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