once upon a time

when they confirmed me i was coming to scotland, i was pretty excited because i knew i was meeting most of the people that i met in my trip to houston. i knew for sure i was gonna see payam, aqib, mike, bryan, katie and also meet new guys. and, above everything, i was excited to get to see another country. i had never imagined this before. my other options were the states (living in a southern state filled with rednecks and bush lovers, no thanks) and egypt. but i just couldn't imaginy myself living in egypt for 12 straight weeks.

besides, i was pretty confident with my english. those two weeks in the states where really good, and i knew i was the latin with the best level in english of that class. someone even though that i lived in the states for a while or something like that.

then i came here after 6 weeks between talara and iquitos. at iquitos i got to speak a little english because there was a guy from russia, another from canada and another from norway. none of them speak shit of spanish.

so it was good. and after traveling for more than 17 hours i finally arrived to edinburgh. and then i realized that the scotish accent is really hard. so fucking hard that i just couldn't understand so many things and i just kept knocking my head. yes, yes, yes. of course. the taxi driver was telling me stories and shit and i just could understand half of it.

at school i met new guys, and then i realized that i was at the end of the class with my english level. guys from the middle east and africa just speak english way better than me. it just felt bad. i still feel bad whenever i don't understand some stuff.

anyhow, i can handle myself. of course i can communicate myself. but still, sometimes it's really hard to undestand some things. too hard.

and then comes the weather.

scotish weather is terrible. it might be sunny and after 10 minutes a terrible rain just appears. and you can see the sun 5 blocks away from you. tomorrow morning we are having around 0 degrees and yesterday i am pretty sure we hit the mid teens. there is a lot of fog too, and that si too bad, because it makes you miss all the green landscape.

still, edimburgh is beatiful. the castle is amazing. the streets have that great old style. and the night live is not so bad. i like it here.

the thing is... it is just another rainy/windy/cloudy day in scotland. and it is getting worse.

the white stripes - the hardest button to button

i don't regret. do you regret?