12/15/19
Coming at you from Mexico. Currently I´m sitting on the top floor of a super nice appartment or condo type place in beautiful Sante Fe. This city is a trip. It seems like Beverly Hills. The last few days, I´ve woken up, had a maid serve me some fruit and coffee for breakky, then I go to the gym, hit the sauna, and come back for a real breakky. This Colombian family I am staying with is ridiculously nice and have provided greatly for me. Last night, we went to a party with mostly Colombians. It was easily top 3 houses I´ve ever been in, if not number one. Instead of just drinking with the “adults”, I started off the night playing ping pong with the younger (under drinking age) kids. Playing with balls is definitely how I find my flow. And oh.. the kids had a basketball court in their house too, so we played what we call in LOS Estados “Bump It”. After playing, I went down and jumped on the trampoline that was built in the ground, and then I went and drank and danced which I´m still learning how to have fun with. It´s just not my scene.
The trippiest part of this experience is how just around the corner from where I´m sitting on this balcony is a view of what people (prob my family and definitely my conditioning) might actually picture as Mexico. it´s a bunch of old, colorful, close together buildings with laundry hanging everywhere. I´m kinda assuming it´s this place that I see that sustains this type of living that I am experiencing now. I can´t help but feel bad for these people and that kind of living situation and street vending etc., but idk. Why should I feel bad if they don´t feel bad for themselves? Then again.. I´m not sure how they see the world or what they feel about anything.
The first part of my trip was spent in El Centro or downtown Mexico City. I didn´t realize it but Mexico city is one of the most populous cities in North America. Either number 1 or 2. The streets are always poppin. Street vendors and Farmacias everywhere. I´m very curious as to what the life of a street vendor must be like. It seems like many of the food spots do pretty well. And let me tell ya… it´s for good reason. That food is damn good. Sidenote.. I think the Mexican diet is not the most healthy. Anyways, I could go on about the food forever, but there´s also the street vendors that sling random trinkets etc. They don´t seem to do as well. But how would I know? Hmm. maybe I should use my spanish and figure out how they live.. .but probably not, I´m scared. I also am not sure where everybody comes from. There´s just so many people! And it´s nice because my dollar goes very far here and the prices are relatively very low.
So I might actually come and live down here. The air quality is aboslutely terrible, which scares me, but I´ve always said how I want to become fluent in Spanish and live in another country. I could also further my career in modeling and acting down here. We´ll see if anything comes of it, but I may sign next week, and I´m seriously considering it. I´m just missing my board sports down here!
One more thing. I didn´t pay rent this month and I love that. Not being in one spot. I mean, ideally I´d have houses everywhere, but that hasn´t come to be yet. I´m not planning on paying rent in January either. And I´ve made a promise to myself to never lock into anything that is not month to month ever again (don´t like saying ever, but it´d have to be a sweet deal that I could sublet or idk something)
Crabs I need to surf. Okay BYE