So I was told my last update was pitiful, so I am playing catch-up now !!!! Well, last I wrote it was to quickly mention everything that took place last weekend. After getting back to work we went to the movies to watch “el Cuento Chino” with Marianne. It was wonderful! Very funny, but also hard to figure out if some of the jokes were on the racist side…. After that we went with Marianne to Atlantida. The bus driving really stepped on it, and we made it in only 1 hour! The walk back to her house from the bus stop was wonderful… It was not too cold and it wasn’t that cloudy! So I grabbed the umbrella that my aunt had, and I danced and sang “I’m singing in the rain,” like a fool down the empty dark streets! It was refreshing! Once at her house, we worked on some letters and then headed to bed… We stayed there till 3 or 4 in the afternoon, and then, since we had not been to the ATM, we legitimately sat down on the floor and had to round up all of our coins to make it back to Montevideo on the bus!!!!
Once in Montevideo, it was RIDICULOUSLY cold!!! We were not ready for this, since when we left it had been ok! Wednesday, we kept working on the letters until around 3, when we headed to Tienda Inglesa to get groceries for the week. We got a fishy call from Elena asking us to buy ravioli and whole milk… Maia and I looked at each other and said “WHOLE MILK???” But we followed orders and returned home. When I opened the door to her apartment I see a man sitting by the dining room table. None other than the one and only Pablo! The only family member we had not seen this week came in from Buenos Aires to see the HUGE Penarol soccer finals! They played in Brazil, but there is nothing like watching soccer game with friends and people that care as much as you do! We hung out with him and watched the U-17 Uruguay team play Rwanda. The game ended with Maia’s future husband leaving the field injured… Poor thing! After that we did some work and then returned to our soccer watching positions and watched/listened to Penarol’s game…. Sadly they lost….
After that, already midnight, we headed to bed, because today we had a TON to do. We read and translated until 1. Then we headed to the police station. YES, the police station… We got arrested. NOT.
Maia has to renew her national I.D. tomorrow, and she has to have proof of reporting her lost old one… We got there to hear a hysterical woman, who looked a little under the influence, yelling at a poor little police man behind a desk. She talked about how Saturday she got into a fight with her boyfriend, got mad, started yelling, told him to take the kids, and he did. Now she wanted them back because she wanted to leave the city. She wanted to see what his report said, in order, to see all the lies. After 45 minutes of waiting, I realized that we didn’t have a cell phone, so I told Maia I would rush back to Elena’s apartment (3 blocks away) to get it, in case Pablo left while we were still waiting. When I returned Maia had already done it all! Even put up with the policeman that could not spell anything. She spelled out her name, and still, he misspelled it. PRICELESS!!!!!!! After that we came back to say goodbye to Pablo and continued working! I am almost done!!!!!!!!!!!!! All the legible letters are almost completed!!!! It’s crazy to think that!!!!
Ok, so I know that was a lot! But I am heading back to reading Heini’s letters from Shanghai! I’m currently trying to find out the details of this story!!
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