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31-01-2010
Machismo society: no matter the time of day, no matter if I haven’t showered in days, no matter what I’m wearing, when I walk down the street, any vehicle ( not excluding police) feel the need to honk. The sole fact that I’m white and a women somehow compels every man in this city to find some sort of gratification in honking, yelling, some even hissing like a rabid animal (the hissing one really confuses me). Sometimes I want to get in their mind and figure out what their thinking …maybe if I hiss at this girl she will like the noise so much that she will give me her number!... anyways not all men are like this, my dad and my brother here are SO kind and really anyone I’ve met.. minus this one guy today..

so on my way home from church today (I had to walk about 12 blocks to this bus stop where I met a friend and her host sister to ride the bus to church with them) anyways I still don’t have my own keys so I was using my mom’s (of which there’s about 6 million) so I begin to look through the keys for the right one to get through the first (of many) gates into my house, and when I turned around there was a 40 ish year old man standing right next to me, he said something really fast in Spanish and I tried to explain to him that my Spanish wasn’t that great, he asked me something about fixing computers and I pretended like I didn’t understand anything he said, meanwhile of course I’m stumbling through keys trying to find the right one… Random man: “amigos?” me: “perdon no intedio” then in very broken English… “do you want to my friend?” at this point there’s only about 2 keys out of the 6 million that I’ve tried left… “I think I need to learn Spanish before I can have friends (said in Spanish ha) he started saying how he could teach me and at that moment FINALLY I found the key that opens the gate! Safety at last! Anyways had I not been a white woman I doubt he would have wanted to be my friend…