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Saturday, October 22, 2005

Everyone´s invited.

Hey, good news: I´ve been slated to play a coffee shop concert here in Santander next Wednesday night. Actually, it´s a bar. And since everything starts late here, I´ll be openning up at 10:30. This just might turn out to be a very memorable night. Me, my acoustic guitar, and some laid back vocals. Every song in English, and nobody knowing any of them...seeing as how they´re originals. Oh well. This opportunity never comes for some people. I´m playing a show in SPAIN!!! Everyone´s invited of course. It´s at Bhengala. See you there?...maybe?

I just booked a flight to London for a 4 day weekend I have mid November. Some fellow Americanos and I are headed out. All that´s left is to book a hostel. From there, we do whatever whenever in one of the biggest, craziest, most expensive cities in the whole world. Who am I that I should have opportunities like this? The flight´s costing me about $50 round trip. I´m going to go down to the bus station today and buy a bus ticket to Barcelona for a long weekend we have at the end of this month. That should be cool. I´ll have lots of pictures to post for everyone.

Speaking of pictures...let´s see what I got.

I took a class field trip yesterday to some ancient caves. (picture of the sign...terribly uninteresting) The word they use is 'prehistoric' but I don´t buy that crap. They were definately old...very, very old. But the cool thing was seeing the paintings on the rock faces. The second cave I went to wasn´t even the real one. It´s been closed down, so no one can visit it, but they reconstructed a perfect duplicate of the origin. Lame, i know, but apparently necessary. Something about preserving the art.

We got the chance to 'hunt' while we were there. We threw the spears at the targets, with the assistance of something called a propulsor, and wow, that thing increase the speed of the spear by a ton. The physics of the lever and all that. More output, less effort. However that all works. I wasn´t very good at it. Here I am in action though.

Jason, the mighty hunter

Oh yeah, these were our targets.

And here´s the countryside...and here´s me posing.

That´s all I´ve got as far as images go. I know I still need to get those Euromullets captured on camera. Last night I saw like 7 of them walk by at once, and so wished I had my camera on me.

Ok, well I need a nap, and then a shower. Laters.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh the cleverness of you!!

Joe D said...

Well I was going to make a comment, but I think the awesomeness of your sister's comment took all the wind out of anything I could possibly say.

That being said, I am pleased to see that your blogging skill has increased 10-fold from when you left. And also in that picture of you hunting -- did that girl to your left get hit with that arrow that was whizzing right towards her (on your upper right) or what? I mean honestly, here in America we really just can't chuck sharp arrows at girls, apparently things are delightfully different in Spain.

Anonymous said...

Hey Jason! Let me see here... "one of the biggest, craziest, most expensive cities in the whole world." I think I got you beat! =) I spend every day in Tokyo!
Glad to see you're having an awesome time in Spain! Those spears look pretty cool.

Anonymous said...

Dude, I can't believe you're going to London. You be careful there. Its a crazy place. I mean, its like being in another country or something...

Seriously, that's gonna be great trip for you. Remind me to share with you someitmes my experience there (too long to post on a blog, and probably uniteresting to most readers)

Kathy and I are praying for you Jason. (although we're gonna take a time out on Thursday night from our praying to go to a JIMMY BUFFET CONCERT in Portland.) I am realizing a life-long dream! Take care man. Looking forward to seeing you in a couple of months.

Larry Carter

Anonymous said...

Dude, I can't believe you're going to London. You be careful there. Its a crazy place. I mean, its like being in another country or something...

Seriously, that's gonna be great trip for you. Remind me to share with you someitmes my experience there (too long to post on a blog, and probably uniteresting to most readers)

Kathy and I are praying for you Jason. (although we're gonna take a time out on Thursday night from our praying to go to a JIMMY BUFFET CONCERT in Portland.) I am realizing a life-long dream! Take care man. Looking forward to seeing you in a couple of months.

Larry Carter