I slept terribly last night, so after my Spanish class I took a four-hour nap. How do adults function? Like, I don’t even work full-time and I’m always tired. I’m eating vegetables, I haven’t touched any booze in a month, I drink lots of water; I guess I haven’t been exercising lately (it’s too damn hot), but I did that in the past and I was tired then too. Is there another thing I should be doing? Am I just stuck with a drowsy disposition? Is everyone this tired all the time (and if so, can we just collectively agree to sleep more and work less)?
After class, a blonde dude with blue eyes approached me and asked, in English, if I knew any good places to eat at, so I took him to dinner. This was a nice coincidence, as I had been meaning to start talking to more people, but chatting up strangers is hard. Stan is 23 and from Amsterdam. He speaks six languages (goddamn Europeans got us beat) and just completed an MBA. He’s been in Mexico for about a week now and will be here for about three weeks more (though he’ll only be in Chiapa de Corzo through Friday). It was good to talk to someone new who wasn’t a teacher or student. Apparently some French dudes he met in Mexico City will also be arriving in Chiapa de Corzo tomorrow, so maybe I will meet them as well. We got food at one of the restaurants on the plaza, but midway through our meal, it began to downpour. By the time we finished eating, the streets were running several inches deep with water. The weather services are super inconsistent here (at this point, my phone still said it wasn’t raining) so we had no idea whether the storm would end soon and decided to make a run for it. I showed him to the grocery store and then made my way home, through what was essentially a river The effect was surreal. Ankle-deep currents ran through the streets as parabolic cascades poured off the rooftops and out of the spouts; the combined effect being the temporary disappearance of the town-as-it-is and its momentary replacement with a Chiapa-de-Corzo-themed waterpark. I arrived home wet from head to toe, and, as could only be expected, it stopped raining about ten minutes later.
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