Girl Interrupted

It's been a while since the last time I made a post about... well.. random things in life. Lately I've been into my relationship with Billy so much, that I forgot the main reason why I started this blog.

[Was there ever a reason why I started blogging?]

ANYWAY!

I want to share with you some of my dumb moments in life. We all have dumb moments, but most of us are in denial about it. I bet you there was a moment in your life when you felt like an idiot and said to yourself "Oh My God I'm so stupidddd!!!"

Back in the day, when I was in elementary ghetto school, there was a group of girls who were more "developed" than I was. My old elementary school is located in the center of the city [Tijuana], and this part of the city happens to be the oldest part of it. Therefore it's the part with the biggest population, and there's a lot of homeless people, prostitutes, drug dealers, pimps, and all the human trash you can think of, along with the normal people with legal jobs and... kids.

I've never lived in "El Centro" [The Center], before, but my grandma did, that's why I went to that school, because my mom could wait for me at my grandma's while my brain was working.

Back to the developed children.
I was in 6th grade [elementary school in Mexico goes from 1st to 6th grade] and I was an innocent human being. Picture this: chubby girl, with eyeglasses, curly hair, sightly taller than the rest of the girls, and of course a nerd. But I used to hang out with the popular bitches girls. One of them was named Alejandra, and she was the daughter of a stupid woman who let her husband hit her, so Alejandra was traumatized by the violence at home and she was rebel, and a little bit of a chola. Other girl was Karent, who was the daughter or a doctor and was the only girl at school with a boyfriend, she was a little bit of a skater [the skater from the late 90's early 2000, not the ones with skinny jeans and emo haircuts]. And then there was everyone's enemy Melissa.

Melissa was my BFF in 4th grade, and part of 5th grade. Nobody talked to her and we were physically similar [except her head had the shape of an egg, and she had smaller eyes, and a double chin...] ok maybe not, but we were super-good-friends. Melissa spent a lot of days living in my house because she didn't like hers, and I understand it because she used to live in the middle of the scum El Centro can be. She lived in La Zona Roja [The Red Zone], which is the part of the city with the most stripper clubs, bars, prostitution, and all that. Long story short, shile she was living in my house, eating my [good quality] food, breathing my fresh air, and playing with my Barbies, she used to talk shit about me and my familt behind my back. She told everyone at school I lived in a shithole, we ate "poor people's food" [seriously WTF was that?] and I didn't have any toys to play with, plus I was a cochina [pig/dirty person] and my parents hated me. Next thing I knew, I was ignored by all the 5th graders in school. Fuck her.

So the doctor's kid and the beaten child started talking to me, and started having issues with Melissa too.

But why am I talking about this and not about my dumb moments in life?

Well... one day, Karent and Alejandra were having an "adult" discussion with Melissa and they called her a "prostitute". So I, being as innocent as a 12 year old from the 90's can be, asked them what a "prostitute" was. I remember they looked at me, rolled eyes, turned around, took my hand and started walking. I don't think they answered me, and I never asked again. Later that day I found out what a prostitute was and I though "shit... I'm dumb", and when to play with my Barbies. I know it's not as dumb as it seems, but I went to school among with the trash and their kids, and I knew what a prostitute was but I didn't know how they were called... so yeah... I was stupid for being 12, but it's not my fault the younger generations are more corrupted than I could ever be.

A few months later I started going to middle school. My middle school wasn't ghetto at all. It was a small school that was closer to my house and far from El Centro. I started haging out with other girls because Karent lived in the other side of the city, and Ale moved to another state because her mom couldn't stand her husband.
I remember someone having a talk about sex [of course a talk among middle school kids], and someone mentioned the words "Oral Sex". Believe it or not, at age 13 I thought Oral Sex, was normal sex with people talking while they were doing it, so when they were having "normal" sex wouldn't talk. Yes, I was stupid.

And then there was the day when I discovered where almonds come from. I though they came from the inside of the peaches' seeds [have you ever opened a peache's seed and found a little almond-shaped thing in the middle?] and the people who sell almonds would open tons of peaches, and toast the "almond" that was inside the seed. Then someone told me there IS an almond tree/plant that gives single almonds with no peaches. The humilliating part is that I was 14 or 15 when that happened...

And like those stories I have tons of other Paris Hilton dumb moments, but I can't think of any right now.

So, what's your dumb moment in life?

Song of the day is Heavy Cross by The Gossip.

Have a nice weekend.