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I need to get back into the swing of this blog more regularly! Between dodgy (drunken) Facebook posts (... way too many times recently I have woken up on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon thinking 'WHAT did I write?' And not even being able to remember.... Sometimes filled with shame when I've seen what I've written...), being filled with guilt for not getting around to writing to my non-Facebook friends, and just sometimes feeling stressed, with loads of thoughts running through my head, but never getting them out of my system. Sometimes I think I think things that are quite interesting and/or worth recording, but I never get round to it, and thus those thoughts are lost forever! And it's good (and probably healthy) to be able to vent!!
So, I can't catch up on everything, but one of yesterday's thoughts that was reiterated today: how do you tell a parent 'your kid's a fucking brat'? This has to do with a 10-year-old girl I've been teaching English to. Her mum is my student as well, and the mum's great. I don't think this girl is a spoilt brat so much as a 'loose-boundaried' only child. Her parents do teach her right from wrong and do try to tell her the appropriate way to behave; from what I've seen they're not strict enough or maybe they don't reinforce what they say. I almost walked out of there yesterday, ready to forego whatever pay I may have earned. You can't teach a child who doesn't want to put the effort in, and I'm not willing to play games (pretending she doesn't understand, avoiding answering direct questions by raising some stupid tangential point that even at ten years old she must realise is not the issue at all).
So on to more interesting things.... I made it to both these events in Santiago de Chile, one Saturday after the other:
I certainly do still love live music! La Cumbre was certainly chileno: ran out of food before 9pm; overran by more than two hours; low on any entertainment outside the two stages that were directly next to each other (I still can't mathematically figure out how they got 39 bands on in 12 - I mean 14.5 hours - as each band seemed to play for well over 25 minutes (except for Astro). But the sound quality was great, the stage set-up (with video screens) was good and it truly was the best opportunity all year to catch Chilean bands in one place. I was too tired and too cold to see Los Bunkers (whom I love and pretty much bought the ticket for; they finished at 1.40am) and Francisca Valenzuela (caught her at Primavera Fauna), but I saw some of the bands I wanted to see: Dënver, Astro and Camila Moreno. Missed Pedro Piedra, found Javiera Mena overrated, but enjoyed De Saloon, Ases Falsos, and Sinergía were certainly daytime crowd-pleasers!
Primavera Fauna was great, totally an 'international' event, but in addition to Francisca I saw The Walkmen (LOVE 'The Rat'), Dinosaur Jr (has it really been 22 years since I owned Green Mind on cassette tape? ... Weird to see J Mascis grey now!) and Pulp! Jarvis is the (show)man! I was a bit surprised to find out he's 49 rather than 46. I also had a conversation with the drummer from Little Boots, Ben Chetwood. A REALLY nice guy! Extremely nice! (Ben, Chile and Santiago, Chile isn't quite the paradise that it may have appeared, but it's really great you enjoyed your time here!) I also had a good day out with friends. And it's the ONLY festival I've been to in Chile (haha, I've only been to three) where they sell alcohol. Win-win! We wound up chilling next to the dance tent until 4am. (What a shame about Chile's drug problem. The problem is that drugs are too damn difficult to find here!)
Well, I've more to say, but not enough time! I must remember to come back here regularly!
Until next time! ¡Hasta luego!
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