Hot and starving in my new apartment, I am definitely uncomfortable, socially awkward in Spanish, I am pretty sure my male roomate thinks I am retarded. The only relief I have is that perhaps there will be one day when we must make conversation, (in English), And he will know I am a little better than that. I am afraid I will never be able to express myself in Spanish. Fustration. On other notes, He's fucking his extremely hot Grecian girlfriend to Orishas, Which, It's strange. Soley because it's my most holy day. And although she is hot, and I don't [View Full Entry]

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and the nigun flows ---- as we hum our tounges and curl our hebrewed words over the sounds of nazi symbols (sharp like razors) and kike signs (soft like gas chambers) --- we murmer --- this hebrew is everything we've had since the beggining, but on rosh hashannah the nigun flows soft, ---- i think we're afraid here. ---- and i know it seems ridiculous, (in this first-world, post-second-world-war place and time) to assume persecution, anti-semitism, but i think i should tell you that when i walked out of services, and into a shoe store (b [View Full Entry]

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so here i am, windswept fully belly, and muscles strained from endless walking en estas calles lined with coffee, and more people than my eyes can drink there is red everywhere, (the newest color of the season) splashed against the traffic, the movie posters, and the relentless pdas of teenagers attempting to seperate from la sagrada familia el rojo, misterio, apasionado, llena la ciudad y estoy exahusted, 5 hours of uncomfortable pillow rest and one hour siestas when i can, cabbage, potatoes, bread, and mystery meat covered in olive oil, abrupt skype conversat [View Full Entry]

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recovering from repression ornate white buildings emerge amidst the red brick ones street styles and mullets signals of once suppressed individuality. old cobblestone streets a lado metro stations, there is a lot of contradiction here. complicacion. confusion. no comprendo la identidad de ese lugar. ...maybe i read too much into it. looking for history, sociology, race - cualquiera cosa to explain it all. it´s difficult knowing how limited my knowledge is here. understanding that my comprehension of this language is inhibited by my college education, former lack of dedi [View Full Entry]

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In San Francisco for just one more week! Then i'm off to London with 4 girls from Davis, and then...gasp!...a year in Madrid! I've got butterflies, but at least I got something! [View Full Entry]

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