The first week-end of the Reading Week is coming to an end! I will probably stay here due to too much homework, catching-up and random stuff that needs to be done. Vale left for the Okanagan on Saturday, but the house is not less occupied, as one of her friends from UBC-O came to visit and she's staying in Vale's room with a friend of hers. Kiks is here. Yaku are in Iceland right now, they couldn't pick something more far away than that.
I just came back from Ricky's place and my stomach is so full, I just want to lie on the floor (yes, the floor, not the bed) and fall asleep. I ate at 4 and then left at 6.30 with Kia to go to Ricky's place for Popusas (which are similar to Mexican tlacoyos I find). It was a lot of fun as Ricko's family is super welcoming and everyone is really nice. They're from El Salvador and the dad, Nelson, always wants you to be drinking something (better if it's alcohol, but things like milk are okay as long as you're having a large piece of chocolate cake with it) and eating something. We watched the Grammys and it was really weird watching TV, as I'm so not used to it. Fairview events always have things like PlayStations and TVs for prizes, which just shows how much budget they have to put on events. We should go more to these kinds of things and win a TV. Well, anyway, watching the Grammys with them and commenting on everything was a lot of fun. Then the sister's husband had his android phone and kept taking pictures of Ricky and Nelson and making them look as if Brad Pitt was signing posters of their faces. And the dog, Pacha, is a pug that considers humans to be part of the furniture, so she just walks on your lap like if you weren't there and finds it comfortable to sit and lie on people's legs without their consent. She's so funny because she's a compacted fat pug.
On Saturday I went with Oscar, Nichy, Jessie and Manuel to a really cool party. It was a 20-30s themed party and everyone was dressed up really nicely. It was in the Waldorf Hotel, in East Hastings (and there was a positive correlation between the distance from UBC and the number of people of questionable character that got on the bus). Stepping through the entrance was like going back in time... the carpeted floor and the dim lights of the locale from the brass candleholders, combined with the wooden dance floor, flowery wall paper and deep-red velvet curtains, created an atmosphere which is in line with what I had imagined a party in the 30s would be like. Everyone was dressed up, guys wearing suits and dancing shoes, vests and suspenders, hair parted to the side. Girls with flowery dresses and dancing shoes (the swing dancers), long silk dresses, pearls and buns made with ondulating curls and peach-coloured fabric roses (the fancy-party goers), corsets, red lipstick and tattoos (the cabaretty-looking girls), beads, sequins and feathers (the flappers).
At the beginning swing music was playing, but then we had two really good live bands. One of them was called Maria in The Shower, and one thing that I thought awesome was how the vocalist stood on top of a leaning chelo while playing the trumpet (and while the chelo guy kept playing the chelo). Really cool. I was next to the stage getting a good view and filming, and was really happy because I got some good shots with good music, and today I checked and the sound quality is terrible because of the closeness to the huge speakers. Speaking of which, there also was a baby too close to the speakers. The baby was a HUGE baby - looked 2 years old but was 10 months - and his mom was tiny, which made the baby look even bigger. But seriously, this was the biggest 10 month old I've seen in my life. He was also super cute, but apathic, like if this sort of scene was normal for him. He was wearing sound mufflers around his ears, but still, he was literally next to the speakers. The mom had like a pouch kind of thing attached to her back and she would carry him around that way, breast-feeding him while drinking beer. I'm guessing he was the kid of one of the band members..
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