I just had to write today in my journal because it is May 15th, and I got an opportunity to meet some really cool black people last night/this morning. One thing that does not happen so much in Argentina is meeting with other black people, the population of Argentina is mostly white. It’s not as noticeable if you’re not black, but for me, I am black—I’m tall and black. I stand out, so I’m always a waypoint. Lots of people seeing you, people recognizing me, because I’m so tall and because… Some would dare say I have a more sweeping personality or a large personality, I am noticeable. I definitely am NOTICEABLE, this week what happened was: I got an opportunity to see some black people. I went out last night—yes it was a Monday night, and I surely went out, I had such a cool and interesting day. All of Monday, the weekend, was really great I got an opportunity to take the subte today again, walk around discover some more of the grunge of Palermo, and I want to tell you about how it was to go out on Monday and how it was Monday working.
Monday was interesting because, my coworkers, they introduced me to what they are called pan y queso. Which is really just bread and cheese, sometimes they have this contraption that they use. They’ll take the bread, then they’ll put on each side of the contraction and put a little bit of cheese in the middle. To close it down, I think there’s some butter in there too, and then they’ll put it on the stove to make like this pressed sandwich. I was a little bit skeptical at first, but I was like well go for it, so I tried it out. The taste was great then they added tomato and I loved it then they add the ham, and I was like: “well sir this is all I need this is all I need for lunch, give me a café and call it a day.” It was wonderful, my coworkers are always introducing me to cool things.
So last night I go to this party, and the party is at a place called… I have to look that up later. It was so cool because we were in like a two-tier place, we are the second tier it had it was a balcony really the seconds here, and it was cool because the Dance Floor was just filled with people it was so crowded for it to be a Monday night and the drinks were flowing the music was hot it was vibing. It really was a bop. I really enjoyed it it was a short walk away from where I was living. I had to walk into the office this morning with sunglasses, everyone asking me are you okay I’m okay I just need to make sure it does not too much light in my eyes.
My coworkers that had seen me they also recognize that maybe it would have been a good idea to take a walk so we actually took a walk to a very cool place that they wanted to have lunch at and guess what I spotted not a table with my jamaican flag. These opportunities are rare, my coworkers and I stop there. We had a few photo opportunities, It’s a really famous Street in where there’s some graffiti artist. All the graffiti artists they show off themselves, they show off their work and is really cool. The stuff there, it’s great grunge Artistry, I must say I really do like the grunge Artistry of it all. It was really cool to kind of experience the Palermo —in that kind of way, and I had a good day today. I had a perfect day today, and we’ll, we’ll see what tomorrow holds, hopefully I’ll be able to get to the sleep tonight because last night I surely didn’t.
-Tall Black Nomad