Saturday, September 06, 2003
Rainy day, Saturday afternoon.....welcome back Harvardians! And, of course, everyone else to school:-) I think their computer has a virus, as at least one message I sent was returned with a dire warning from mr. mail delivery subsystem. my host mom tried to blame it on my iomega minidrive (where did you buy your disk?) despite the fact my darling laptop has been internetless for many a month now. oh well.
Yesterday Dan and I got lost trying to find the travel agency.
me: don´t look up
dan: wha- oh no theres a bennigans!
me: not the bennigans.
indeed, beside said bennigans there was a TWO STORY Starbucks. it was ridiculous. and, proceeding around the corner we passed a tgi fridays, pizza hut, and dunkin donuts before landing in the travel agency and booking tickets for Easter Island. for december- during the last official week of school, actually. exams, actually. I don´t think I have any then....
at night I went with Lewis from harvard to a Salvador Allende tribute concert in the Estadio National. It was the first of two nights, with musicians from Chile and all over. As night fell and the temperature dropped (its too cold again:-( and the warmup bands wound up, people started shouting out the old Allende rally chants. It was a bit spooky, mainly because I´ve seen footage from the 70s of people chanting the same thing, and here we were, surrounded by mostly older people who probably were (at least representatively) in that footage:
"El pueblo! Unido! Jamas sera vencido!"
"Se siente! se siente! Allende esta presente!"
"Companeros de Allende" "Presente!"
"Companeros de Allende" "Presente!"
"Ahora!" "Y siempre!"
"Ahora!" "Y siempre!"
The actual show began with Quilipayun, a Chilean folk band that was exiled during the dictatorship. Then there were a succession of artists from all over, some of whom I recognized or not but all famous. Ravi Shankar´s son, with an endearingly bad Spanish accent, a big brazilian delegation including Gilberto Gil, some Chilean hip hop, Los Prisioneros. The closer was I think Tobias Rey (?) a salsa band. At 1:30 AM, 6 and a half hours after we arrived for the warm-up bands- frozen out!
Someone, have a waffle with chocolate sauce and strawberries for me!
Yesterday Dan and I got lost trying to find the travel agency.
me: don´t look up
dan: wha- oh no theres a bennigans!
me: not the bennigans.
indeed, beside said bennigans there was a TWO STORY Starbucks. it was ridiculous. and, proceeding around the corner we passed a tgi fridays, pizza hut, and dunkin donuts before landing in the travel agency and booking tickets for Easter Island. for december- during the last official week of school, actually. exams, actually. I don´t think I have any then....
at night I went with Lewis from harvard to a Salvador Allende tribute concert in the Estadio National. It was the first of two nights, with musicians from Chile and all over. As night fell and the temperature dropped (its too cold again:-( and the warmup bands wound up, people started shouting out the old Allende rally chants. It was a bit spooky, mainly because I´ve seen footage from the 70s of people chanting the same thing, and here we were, surrounded by mostly older people who probably were (at least representatively) in that footage:
"El pueblo! Unido! Jamas sera vencido!"
"Se siente! se siente! Allende esta presente!"
"Companeros de Allende" "Presente!"
"Companeros de Allende" "Presente!"
"Ahora!" "Y siempre!"
"Ahora!" "Y siempre!"
The actual show began with Quilipayun, a Chilean folk band that was exiled during the dictatorship. Then there were a succession of artists from all over, some of whom I recognized or not but all famous. Ravi Shankar´s son, with an endearingly bad Spanish accent, a big brazilian delegation including Gilberto Gil, some Chilean hip hop, Los Prisioneros. The closer was I think Tobias Rey (?) a salsa band. At 1:30 AM, 6 and a half hours after we arrived for the warm-up bands- frozen out!
Someone, have a waffle with chocolate sauce and strawberries for me!
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