What an ordeal this cupula has become! I was anxious to get started with the restauration of my future home this weekend, and eventhough it was a sunny 30 degree day, I did not go to Pinar, I stayed and went there to meet with the plummer friend of mine, who did not show up again to fix my bathroom! I was almost in tears from rage when my cute downstairs neighbor said, "che, want to go see a concert for the political prisoners?" I knew he was talking about the one that we all were sure Manu Chau, who is in tour in Latin America at the moment, would sing there. So I said, well, what I am going to do, so I went.
A couple of beers and warm sun touching my face, Manu really showed up and sang a couple of tunes, we all danced and cheered and unfortunately he stopped to give the word to a speaker who went on and on about the human rights...well I left at that point because my neighbor asked me if I wanted to go see the Uruguay-Australia World Cup preliminary at the stadium! Hell yeah, I said. I was not going to miss another opportunity to go see a partido, especially as the future-productor of a soccer show in a turkish channel (ojala!)
Anyways, the game was AWESOME. The public was quiet for my taste, I am a turk, we scream our lungs out when our national team is playing for the World Cup. I saw moments of euphoria there but even though Uruguay went, the city stayed very very quiet during and afterwards. Shocking....
The next day, sunday, I woke up early enought to order freshly baked sorentinos (huge raviolis filled with jam and cheese) as a good girlfriend, and made a delicious tuco (a classic tomato, onion, pepper, garlic based salsa for pastas) with bacon and chicken, for Juana and Javier who were coming to pick me up to go to La teja, a working class neighborhood, where our dear friends Leo and Davich are from. Their band, la Teja Pride was going to have a small concert and Javier wanted to film the thing together with swedish film students who are in town.
Lunch was awesome, and Javi had to go early to put the stage together, so me and Juana stayed and decided to go to a theme park! I think last time I was in a themepark, I was 16, we used to go to the one close to Dolmabahce palace in Istanbul, at the end of the school year! I am about to celebrate my Tenth anniversary of graduation from HS this year, so go figure!
Juana pretty much decided for our rides, I loved the elephant thingy but the first time we were in it, as a person too old to hang out at theme parks and as a single gal without kids, I did not know that I needed to push a button to go up! I thought we were in a broken ride, but when we got out and I went over to bitch I realized it was my fault but played it so that they kindly offered me a new ticket--one more observation, when you are with a kid, looking like a parent especially, people treat you much nicer, especially if you have a cute kid! After being in almost all the rides and ate enought cotton candy we went back home, changed and wento to Teja. The band was waiting for us to take the stage.
It was a lot of fun, guys giving a concert in their neighborhood, with their granma there knitting while they were rapping hardcore about the social problems and discrimination, etc. Juana was instoppable, running around, dancing, having a ball! No wonder she fell asleep at 9 pm, in the car on the way back from there.
That is how my jungla was this weekend! Next weekend: Cupula or Bust!
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