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Sunday, August 15, 2010

11:45 PM

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So we performed today at Scalabrini village in Austral. It was realllly packed, it was some weird mass church orgy thing. All the latino churches got together and had a big group mass and there were performances and food for the rest of the day.

It's odd...I really can't escape religion in my life, personally it's Catholicism that tends to make its way into whatever I'm doing despite becoming an atheist. That sounds retarded..."becoming an atheist" ..but well it's what happened. I grew up in a semi-religious house hold, I knew all my prayers in Spanish while I was in Primary school because I would say them before I went to bed with my grandma. We didn't go to Church that often but when we did it was in Spanish. I was baptized and had my reconciliation and holy communion and confirmation and all that jaz, I was even an alter girl once and I used to do the liturgical dances for mass in primary. I went to a catholic primary school so before recess and lunch we always prayed..or on camp, every time we moved we pretty much had to say a prayer. We had an hour of religion every day I think. Mostly we would read a passage and find the moral there and draw pictures or act out scenes lol

Then I went to a Catholic high school but religion wasn't as big a deal as it was in primary. We only had religion maybe 2 hours a week but it was actually quite interesting, we went more into the history of things and analyzing the 4 gospels. Then in yr 11 and 12 I did Studies of Religion which was fascinating but we only did Judaism and Christianity which by then was kinda over and done with after about 12 years of learning about it. We still prayed in the morning in yr 7, or at assembly, but we only had Church twice a year and a few school liturgies throughout. I use to pray every night before I went to bed until I was in about yr 8...I spent most of year 7 actually praying to my granddad instead because he passed away and I thought he'd be able to hear them and pass them onto god more so than me trying to reach God. I was always anti-church though...never did like organised religion.

It just felt like...I grew up and stopped believing. It was a lot like the whole Santa Clause thing (whom I believed in until yr 8 =P) lol

Now I'm back with the whole religiousness...about half of our performances are run by the Latino Church groups.

The world I live in is way too small. FOR EXAMPLE. My dance group. I went because Michelle wanted to do latino dancing (we met in highschool and then figured out my mum was uni friends with her aunties and worked with some of them and also looked after her gran in the nursing home, some of her aunties even know my DAD!). So the class was being run by Marissa (uni friends with michelle), I found out recently that my gran has known Marissa and her family for years because they're heavily involved in the Church. Then there's peter. He joined because he's friends with both michelle and marissa coz they all go to uni together. I went to primary school with peter AND peter's older brother was friends with tim in highschool and peter therefore also knew tim. THEN there's Lilly and Natalie, both of which were students my aunty has had at uni and I met lilly through my aunty for some UWS thing she was doing. Possibly the weirdest coincidence was Sebastian, Sebastian is one of Joel and Michael's friends from uni and I sorta "met" him on mikels bday. By met, I mean saw unconscious when I got there at 4am. Small small world.

SO today's performance was odd. It really felt like another rehearsal, maybe I was just out of it. I didn't

Service announcement break: USE UR LEFT HAND AND SCREAM LIKE A CHICKEN

feel like I was performing and didn't get nervous at all..not that I usually get all that nervous. Maybe we've just done this too many times now. Except from now on all performances will be new routines so we're going to suck again *sigh* oh wells.

PICS:

According to Marissa "it looks good on stage" LOL

hehe

anywho baii
x

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Español.

So one day I was hanging out with Kurt and we realised that there are some pretty wacky sayings in the spanish language. Each Spanish speaking country has their own sayings, metaphors and similies but these are a few that I have collected over the last year or so. Every time I hear my mum or grandma say a new one I text Kurt XD It has become somewhat of a little tradition for me now =]

Saying: La negrita astuta vende fruta.
Direct Translation: The (Astute, cunning, sly, crafty, fraudulent) cute/little black girl sells fruit.
Meaning: This saying is said as a sort of warning that you are/someone else is a cocktease

Saying: No calientes el agua (si no vas a tomar té)
Direct Translation: Don't heat the water if you're not going to drink tea
Meaning: This is also a sort of warning to someone who is being a cocktease. Kind of like, don't flirt and lead someone on if you have no intention of hooking up with them. It is also a play on words because in Spanish (Chilean at least) the word calentar (to heat) is also used informally as a way to say 'make horny'. So 'estoy caliente' = I'm hot BUT it means I'm horny. If you wanted to say I'm hot (because of the weather) you would say 'tengo calor'

Tongue Twister: Tres tristes tigres trigo trillaron tranquilos tragaron
Translation: Three sad tigers, wheat they threshed (To separate the grain from the straw or husks by mechanical beating), calmly they swallowed.

Tongue Twister:Pedro Pablo Pérez Pereira pobre pintor portugués pinta paisajes por poca plata para pasar por París
Translation: Pedro Pablo Pérez Pereira poor Portugese painter paints landscapes for little money to pass through Paris.

Saying:Buscarle la quinta pata al gato
Direct Translation:To look for the 5th leg of the cat
Meaning: Looking for problems when there clearly aren't any in that situation, so you're over thinking it and overcomplicating yourself.

Saying: Para ser bella hay que ver estrellas
Direct Translation: To be beautiful you have to see stars
Meaning: I'm guessing this is a fairly old saying because my grandad said it to me once, I kind of fell in love with this little rhyme/mantra. It means that no pain is too great to endure in order to look your best, this particularly refers to women having to wear painful shoes (stilettos) because it makes their legs look hot, wearing tight clothing to show off curves, waxing, plucking, dying hair, and I suppose nowadays you could extend that into getting cosmetic surgery. Just to clarify, my grandad wasn't a dick, I remember the saying coming up because we were watching a show with really attractive women and I was in awe of them and he explained that constructed superficial beauty comes at a price =) Oh and if you don't get the imagery, it's based on seeing "stars" when you hit your head/get dizzy, like if you've ever seen the cartoon representation of stars around the head when they get hit.

*To be continued