Where was I?

Where was I? Oh... right, I remember now.

Hello my four readers, for the last couple of weeks I haven't had time to write some lines about my life here in this amazing country. I have to confess something, I've been really busy due to things I'm doing now that I love to do. I still have many things to tell you, but let me bring you guys to the present time. I learnt many things during the last couple of weeks:
- Whale hunting is wrong
- Nothing good happens after 2am
- Compromising and Commitment are confusing and dissimilar terms
- Never tell "I told you so" to a mum of 2.
- Sleeping is overrated
- Assumptions and intuition can't be used as arguments during a conversation

And the most important one, I learnt how to change a nappy for the very first time. According to Ana it didn't count because it was a wet nappy... whatever, it does count!

Also, I'm happy, very very happy, struggling with a student/babysitter/jointentrepeneur busy life and facing a very uncertain but exciting future. I promised I'll come back soon with some "dirt".

Have a great day my four friends and keep on smiling.

The Coffee Group

Hello to my three followers. Are you guys enjoying this nonsense? Hope so, and if you do please leave a comment, what would you like me to write about and, or whatever.

Anyway, after that day at the gym, my very first day, I was all excited, right? I mean think about it; I have left my country with the mere intention of “let’s give it a try”; I’ve quit the job of my dreams (Oh... f***)... For the first time in many years I finally felt in total control of my destiny. So, with all these things in my mind I didn’t notice how my life was about to enter into a global warming created vortex, and I was being dragged into it along with nappies, babies, wipes, dummies, mums, pregnant women and not a single girl around.

Have you ever been in a place where everybody is looking at you like "what are you doing here?". Like attending a KKK annual meeting while being Mexican, brown and with an accent? Yes? No? Well that’s how I felt the first time I went to this coffee group. You might wonder what a coffee group is and what kind of coffee they offer. Well, one thing is for sure, pregnant women and mums don’t like to drink a lot of coffee, apparently their lives are full of other factors that help them to stay awake naturally.

Coffee groups are formed by a group of moms who get together every week with their toddlers and babies to just share the amazing discoveries they have accomplished while nurturing these little human beings.

‘My kid is teething now, how amazing! He has two front teeth now’- cried one.

‘My girl just said daddy three days ago, oh she is so clever’ – said another, covered in baby vomit.

‘My little boy doesn’t like veggies, he likes sweet stuff rather than mashed kumara’ – confessed ashamed one.

The list goes on an on with more examples like I just presented. One time I dared interrupting with:

‘Oh! Today I finally understood why the economic crisis hasn’t really hit New Zealand and the regional repercussions this could bring to improve the quality of life of the kiwis’

They looked at me totally unimpressed; suddenly the silence I created was broken by:

‘Oh, my baby’s poo is more compacted and looks better than last week, it must be all that kiwi she’s been eating’ – Said one lady

Everybody went ‘oh that’s awesome! Congratulations’

Really? Well anyway, that’s how I started to get involved with this clan, these people, mums who couldn’t believe I was enjoying hanging out with them. Later, I came to the realization that I was really enjoying sharing and chatting with these ladies. However, those stares and looks I got the first time I attended this coffee group still haunt me at night.