art night

Feels nice here - the roof of my house, catching a signal from Casa de teatro, some starts in the sky, warm weather. I just finished painting my jeans that i got for 10 pesos in the Duarte street.
Finally. i got a guitar. thank you, Artie. for 2 months i will be learning how to play it. I bet i will ;)
In the evenings like this you forget about everything, just nice conversations with the neighbours and now the sound of the wind here in the roof. It is a bit sad that i will have to move from this place - have just 7 days left to find smth new, hopefully it will show up. Actually i like changing the places - it feels a bit like travelling, u explore, u get used to the new environment, you discover new things. So, new appartment - i am comming ;)

Hehe, Gabriel, i love your comparisons.
"The job interviews in this country are like guys" - the next day you say "oh, why they didnt call me..."

so true.
Well, they actually called in the end, it took a long time though. Not selected, native spanish needed. come on, my spanish is almost native))) well, actually it is more dominican then spanish :) no job in IKEA, it's fine - at least i am learning smth from going to the interviews

And I am getting used to my schedule - developing the exercises on how-not-to-start-falling-asleep around 23 p.m. I start to discover people at work - they are actually interesting and each of them has own story to tell. it is an unexpected weird experience - working in this call center for fixing TVs for american people, especially after not watching TV for 4 or 5 years and having some inborn prejudies about americans that i am trying to fight with.

P.S.  i am always happy to talk about the things that inspire me, and i will be the happiest person in the world if the idea of "the real thing" will spread. And i realised couple of days ago that it is slowly starting to do so. I was amazed when I just asked my friends to "Like it" on facebook and they not only started to Like, but as well comment, re-post it and ask their friends to like.

p.p.s. I am using too much the word start right now - i wonder to which one i will switch in 3 months :)

sunday

That was a very relaxed sunday - i needed smth like that for sure after such an intensive week.
Yesterday it happened - the first excursion of the Real Thing! I was worried, excited, all the emotions mixed. But we did it good. Funny thing is that 2 dominicans participated supposingly wanting to "get to know real Dominican Republic."
That's cool to see people happy after eating the huge portion of sancocho and the faces of local guys in the barrio seing so many white girls at the same time. Project has a future. definately. And our team is cool - we complete each other. i am happy. One more cool thing is that the theory actually works - if you want smth very bad it comes to you, comes randomly - people whom you didnt see for ages appear, people whom you know start telling u stuff u never thought they know.exactly at the time you need.

And btw, I finally felt the impact of AIESEC. Not somewhere sitting in the office or going to the universty recruiting people. Right there in the finca of Carlos, where all the family gathered and before the meal pronounced a speech. You could see how happy and pround the they are of their son. Carlos, i do hope u will have a great internship and as u are crazy person, nothing should scare u ;)

And it is smth about the latin families that makes me think. They are so so connected. U have an event and everybody is there and if they are not there u receive calls from all the parts of the world. They are big and loud, with a lot of kids and grandparents. they are charming. They will count on u to continue the family business and even without any pushing u will actually feel the responsibility to continue it. You dont even need to go to the shop, u can have a natural household and exchange the goods inside the family(and for sure somebody from the family members will have a shop).They never get tired of dancing and gossiping. And thinking about that i realised i miss my family. We are not that big. and actualy if u just take family-family we are 3. But we dont need more. I remember how i used to come from school on fridays and find the beautifully served table with wine, because on fridays we usually have "the relaxation evening", or how we used to go shopping in IKEA and my dad would stay waiting for us eating hot dogs while we were running around the shop, or how we would go by car to the black sea and talk all the way about russian history, politics, business and all the talks will finish with the one about "what u gonna do in the future". They tell me every day "come back home". And every day i tell them "not yet". It is a bit sad, but the thing that makes me happy is that even being in Dominican Republic i i can call my mom to complain about the guys, or call my dad to ask what to do if the radiator is getting hot. I love my parents.

что наша жизнь? Игра

That is the phrase from the famous russian show and it is quite true for me now. Deciding to stay here for an undefined period of time after the official year in Dominican Republic ended i signed myself into the game, and even i dont know yet the rules or possible outcome of it and I prefer not to get to know them, but create them.

Every week brings smth strange and new. Monday started with a afternoon conversation in the park with Pavol, meeting the russian guy, who collected in himself more stories then any book about adventures and continued into the party with Pavol and Manuel - so called bar crawlling, where i discovered very cool place - the bar inside the appartment, which is not defined by anything and you will find it only if you know ;)

The trainings in the call center finally started  - I didn't understand yet how i feel about it. From the one point of view i am learning, from the other - it is a bit not my environment - too americanized. so i still need some more time to get into it. But the schedule is crazy thought - comming home at 1, waking up at 9 and from 9 to 14.30 trying to find the place around where i can use computer. Yes, i still dont have a laptop and i think i am going crazy cuz of that.

But this is the way how u learn to bee more efficient - cuz when u know that u have 1 hour in the spanish library u do need to manage to do everyrhing in this one hour, until the kids will start running around you trying to get into the PC before u even stand up from the chair. Yees, that gives u adrenalin rush

And finally the thing that i cant stop thinking now 24/7 is the project. "The real thing" brings me excitements and disappointments every day. It is very very interesting to be opening smth on your own, it is interesting to work with the team, it is interesting to learn dominican history. Do u know why the coconut palms grow on the seaside? Every and each day i learn smth new, i meet people who give advice - sometimes good, sometimes totally useless, people who are happy about the idea, people who criticize. Every comment is really valuable and all the things almost got settled in my head. Almost. It takes time, but it is extremely interesting.

new life

Those days have been very very weird. It was like a life from the book or movie– when you dont spend more then 30 min at home, meeting one friend after another. I realised that this year didnt go invane if there are so many good people around. And it feels great to live here, to talk with the neighbours, meet people, to walk along the old streets and to drink coffee in the place that is 90 years old. Neighbours are funny – 2 lesbian women, guy from israel, haitian guy, spanish cooker, cuban history books writer, old lady, administrador with weird life story, the girl that i apparently know, and some more that i dont know yet. I really enjoy, and even though i feel that i am not doing anything right now i cant blame myself, because from Tuesday i will start working as a slave. A bit too much alcohol on the weekend, but i just had to drink a shot of whikey, and Adaica stopped me from doing stupid stuff so its fine.J
I got disappointed again in dominican men, and confirmed my opinion that it doesnt make sence to start smth with smbd here. The funny thing now is that i am starting to have a Collection of men to whom i can call if i suddenly realise that i need a lover. But knowing the dominican men i cant rely even on that offer.
We signed the contract. It starts, the Project. I am very very excited and i am ready not to sleep to bring it to life. The Touristical route is almost done and now we need to search for the clients. The freaking rain can let the things down a bit, but it is a managable issue. We have a great team, we are starting the website already, so the things are moving on. I am sue We´ll do that. Papa Francis, i need laptoooop