Yayayayayaya :)

Just read Mel's blog, and I'm getting REALLY excited about her being here (I guess I can't say "home" anymore... sad day...) in like, A WEEK!!!!!!!!!!

We're gonna get fat with all the eating we'll be doing :) And I'm TOTALLY ok with that. Totally.

Anyways. Last night (musically) went fairly well. Pretty much everyone was cool, Tim was not, so I guess he was just being polite having me lead with him. Meh. Oh well. I had to leave early for rehearsal... but I stayed as long as I possibly could, which was probably only 10 minutes til the end of service, but I think we made it clear we're interested and committed. Bleh. WHY is there so much drama at CHURCH? That's just nonsense.

I'm so excited because I bought my first Neruda this week! It's Los versos del capitan. I haven't gotten to read much of it, but the poems I have read are really beautiful. Who knew I'd ever like to read poetry? And in Spanish, no less. Some of it is really hard to translate, but I got a bilingual version, so that's helping. I'm making myself read them in Spanish first and analyze them that way, and only use the English version as a last resort, when I really can't figure it out. I get what all the words mean, individually, but I think it's just the punctuation and the verse form that are kind of getting in the way of really understanding what the poem is saying, what it means. Here's one of my favorites so far (in Spanish, then in English):

8 DE SEPTIEMBRE

Hoy, este día fue una copa plena,
hoy, este día fue la inmensa ola,
hoy, fue toda la tierra.

Hoy el mar tempestuoso
nos levantó en un beso
tan alto que temblamos
a la luz de un relámpago
y, atodos, descendimos
a sumergirnos sin desenlazarnos.

Hoy nuestros cuerpos se hicieron extensos,
crecieron hasta el límite del mundo
y rodaron fundiéndose
en una sola gota
de cera o meteoro.

Entre tú y yo se abrió una nueva puerta
y alguien, sin rostro aún,
allí nos seperaba.


SEPTEMBER 8TH

Today, this day was a brimming cup,
today, this day was the immense wave,
today, it was all the earth.

Today the stormy sea
lifted us in a kiss
so high that we trembled
in a lightningflash
and, tied, we went down
to sink without untwining.

Today our bodies became vast,
they grew to the edge of the world
and rolled melting
into a single drop
of wax or meteor.

Between you and me a new door opened
and someone, still faceless,
was waiting for us there.

Beautiful :)