Day 2 – The Odyssey Continues
Day 2 begins with me rising early as my biological clock is still in “work mode”… The staff begins to arrive at the office at 7:00am to prepare breakfast... The rest of the staff does not arrive until 12:00pm daily… They stay until 8:00pm at night… There are translators on-site from 9:00am until 8:00pm to assist the guests.
Even though I had forwarded a list of ladies that I would like to meet via email, no appointments had been set for me prior to my arrival… I think this is odd since they had asked me specifically to provide a list of ladies to set appointments… I began to browse through their books of ladies and select several more that I want to meet… Telephone calls are made to these ladies and the ones I have been corresponding with to start the process of setting citas… The girl that met me at the airport last night is called and invited for lunch today… Hopefully things will go better with her today when we have an interpreter…
Calls to the airport indicate that my luggage is still very lost and the best I can hope for is that it will arrive on the evening flight from Miami… Emergency plan, my new American friend and I venture to the Unicentro mall so I can get some clothes… I purchase enough new clothing to hold me over and we stop for a cerveza in the mall… There were more drop dead gorgeous women in the mall than I have seen in months… Every woman dresses to kill... The women's favorite attire is a pair of painted on, low-low-low rider hip hugger jeans and a bare midriff top... I think I am going to go blind... Lesson 4, always wear a of sunglasses in public so it's not so obvious that you are staring... We spot another gringo wandering through the mall with a cute girl… My buddy points him out and says, “there is another Americano”… I ask him how he can tell the guy is American and he says, “he’s wearing shorts and tennis shoes”… It seems that everyone from Cali that goes to the mall dresses for the occasion… Only gringos dress like slobs… We stop this guy and start a conversation with him… He is 36, overweight and the Calena he is with is 17… He tells us that he was married to one 17 year old, divorced her and was back to find another one... Lesson 5, I know why some of these relationships don't work, do you!!! Well, back to the agency for lunch and my first cita of the day…
When Calena # 1 arrives, the girl that met me at the airport last night... We have a nice talk with the help of an interpreter... I am the first American she has met as she is new to the agency… There seems to be some true interest by both of us and we have lunch after our meeting, followed a period of exchanged dialog using the Babel Fish website for translating our thoughts... Before she leaves, we set a date for tomorrow afternoon… We will use one of the staff to take us on a tour of the city and translate for us… Everything seems to be on track as she is my number one choice… I'm pretty happy right now...
If you guys don’t know about the Babel Fish website, it is a free site that provides translation software for various languages… You can translate up to 150 words at a time to/from many languages… The URL is babelfish.altavista.com/tr… It’s not perfect but what is…
Since the agency only began setting appointments today, I was only able to get one other cita today… Again, she speaks zero English so we have to use an interpreter to assist us… She is cute, but not as cute as her photos in the books… She is also very shy and I am the first American she has met… The conversation goes ok, but total lack of interest on my part…
My gringo buddy arrives back at the agency from being with his number 1 lady… It’s getting late and we are hungry so we walk down to a local restaurant for a sandwich and a cerveza… We have an interesting time getting our orders placed, but the waiter is very friendly and helpful… Lots of pointing at the menu, waving of the hands and laughing... The language is a problem, but not insurmountable… We talk about the day’s events and back to the agency for bed…
All in all, not a bad day…
End of Day 2
