Coming back from the beach is usually very hard for me, but this year, given the circumstances, I was almost running back to Montevideo!
I have not been in Montevideo last January, luckily I was at the beach the whole time. After my horrible christmas eve and then New Year's, I decided that I could not be in la Pedrera one more minute and came back home. Only to find out that I was the only person there! (Titi keeps smsing me: Only the dorks are in Montevideo, come back!)
My first morning in the city was almost surreal: noone at the streets but me! Montevideo is a city with few people to begin with and when those few leave, we were left with absolutely nobody--even my cleaning lady told me when I called her, that she was going to be out of town for the first two weeks of January, and excused herself from work! I was petrified. How can I recover from a horrible break-up, if all my friends are gone, and there is nothing to do in this city de mierda?
I worked non-stop for the first week. Writing, sleeping, eating, and sun bathing at the roof. I only left my apartment to get food and the paper. My favorite grocery store was closed, for god's sake!
Towards the end of the week, I was even cleaning the bathroom so that the time goes by, somehow. Titi's call saying she is coming to the city for the biggest Derby in Uruguay made my day! I have not been in a derby before, plus it was the only activity in the city that weekend.
So I bought a hat and waited for her.
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