June 12, 2013

• Report # 1011

  Hey everyone, I hope that you’ve all been having a fantastic week so far. I really enjoyed my four days with Rocío, and I only wish that we had even more time to spend together. I had no idea that we would have such a great time and that everything would be super amazing. On Sunday I had planned to go with Rocío to the Capilano Suspension Bridge in North Vancouver as I hadn’t been there in so many years, but we ended up accompanying my brother. We stopped at a church to pick-up one of my brother’s friends, but we ended up going inside for a while and having lunch, as they were having a big lunch type buffet of food that everyone brought in.

  Rocío was telling me these kind of things don’t happen at the churches in Argentina, and I don’t really think they happen too much at the churches in Canada, but it was a baby shower for someone, so maybe that is why there was all of the food there. Rocío met some friends of my brother and a we talked to a bunch of other people in the church, so it was a pretty enjoyable afternoon. Rocío got along great with everyone, and people clearly were interested in knowing her… she even got invited to go to Alberta, though she was not able to stay long enough to take the lady up on the offer. After eating tons of food and talking to a bunch of people, Rocío and I went with my brother Jared and his friend Michael to Golden Ears Provincial Park.

  I had been to this park before about five years ago, but I hadn’t seen much of it, so it was definitely a great place to go. It was raining kind of hard as we were driving there, but by the time we arrived the rain had stopped, and the sun actually came out a little later. I took tons of pictures while we were walking, and I even filmed my brother’s friend a few times, as he was making some videos to apply for a job where they want someone who can speak Japanese and English. It was pretty cool seeing a white guy speaking in Japanese so well… that’s certainly not something that I’ll see again anytime soon. Rocío really enjoyed the park and she was having a great time. She actually really connected well with Michael as they both share the same type of musical interests. They are already Facebook friends, so they really got along great.

  After walking up to a beautiful waterfall, we headed back to the car and headed home. Rocío talked with my parents for a while and showed us all some pictures from all around Argentina. It’s such a beautiful country with a bit of everything…. I’d definitely love to go there one day super soon. We had a fire in the back yard later on Sunday evening and we roasted hot dogs and marshmallows. A few more of my brother’s friends came over so we had a good crowd of people. Everyone was having a great time, so the camp fire was a real success. On Monday I woke up at 9:15 am and I ran up to Tim Hortons and had breakfast and talked to my grandmother all before Rocío got out of bed and had her shower. Rocío wanted to get a great sleep because the next day we both had to get up super early to go to the Greyhound station in downtown Vancouver.

  So on Monday we basically spent the day at home sun tanning, listening to some of the music from Rocío’s rock band, Dammit Janet, as well as some swimming and sitting in the sauna. Later in the day we walked up to Boston Pizza and had a huge dinner. Rocío was joking that I am trying to get her fat as we always seem to eat a lot of food. We shared an appetizer of honey garlic chicken wings, and then I had a pepperoni pizza, Rocío had a pasta, and we each had a delicious dessert as well. Of course we were super full after that huge meal. After dinner we walked home, taking a few more pictures along the way, and when we arrived, I helped Rocío with her laundry and getting things ready for Tuesday morning.

  While the laundry was finishing up we walked to the school that’s super close to the house, and sat down aside from the gravel field with a great view of all the farms and hills in the distance. I filmed a video of Rocío talking about her trip, and we just stayed and talk for a while, though not too long, as there were way too many mosquitoes. After heading home we basically got a few more things ready, and got into bed at around 10:45 pm. I set my alarm for 4:50 am yesterday morning, but I ended up just waking up myself around 4:35 am, so after a few minutes I got up and then got dressed in my work clothes, preparing a quick lunch to take with me.

  Rocío was all ready, so we got all of her luggage and we walked to the bus station and waited for about 10 minutes before the bus came and took us to the Skytrain station. The Skytrain took us to downtown Vancouver and we arrived at around 6:45 am, so we had plenty of time before her bus for Seattle would leave at 7:15 am. After checking in her luggage and filling out the custom forms we headed outside and talked for a while as we waited until Rocío had to board the bus. I had no idea how hard it would be too say good-bye as my eyes were filling with tears. We were hugging each other, and Rocío was telling me not to cry as it would make her cry, but I don’t think she would cry, as she is a pretty tough girl.

  I said good-bye to Rocío, waving as she walked to the back of the bus and I walked back into the Greyhound station heading to the bathroom before leaving. They were playing some type of Opera music that sounded super sad, so that really didn’t help with the mood. I got on the Sky Train and headed back to Surrey, and I was able to get into work 20 minutes early, so there was lots of time. I struggled with tears every time that I thought about Rocío and the times that we spent and how she had left, but I was able to hold myself together pretty well throughout the day. Work went by pretty quickly and I headed home after 5:00 pm, stopping at Tim Hortons on the way.

  It’s going to take me a day or two to strengthen up as right now I would totally start crying if I think about Rocío. Tonight as I get into bed I think I’ll just have to let it all out and hopefully I feel better. It was an amazing few days with her, and I will miss her a lot. We are great friends and I had no idea that things would go super well. And I don’t want to be sad and missing her, but I can’t help it… I do. It’s times like these I wish I was a lot stronger of a person, but clearly when it comes to saying good-bye to a special person, I can’t do it without getting incredibly sad. I’m sure that everything will be ok, it will just take me some time. Rocío will have another week of her trip in Washington State, and I’m sure she’ll have a wonderful time there.

  I’ll be incredibly busy the rest of the month working almost everyday as I need to make up the two Saturdays that I missed, so hopefully I won’t have time to be sad after I let everything out tonight. I am super happy that I had an opportunity to meet Rocío and spend a day with her in Seattle and have her at the house for three days. I know that she had a good time and that she is happy, and she met a number of cool friends along the way, so I need to not be sad. I will do my best to toughen up, but unfortunately this time I just don’t have any toughness and I’ve been emotionally weak…. it will just take some time. Anyways that’s about all that I’ve been up to over the last few days. For the next question:

  Are you an emotionally strong person, or do you show emotions and get sad a little too easy ?

  I will get the pictures ready to start sharing next time. Take care and I’ll talk to you all on Saturday, bye for now.

   

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