Should I Stay or Should I Go Now?

My past three journal entries have been an attempt to decide this question, but I end up balancing my checkbook or grumbling about poor service. (I have officially been to all the neighboring restaurants by my apartment building. With the exception of T.G.I. Friday’s at the corner of Alto Palermo Mall.) I don’t know what I would do in Dallas for two months while everyone is working. I don’t suppose I could find a job really, and I’ll need time to reconnect with everyone before heading off to Austin. The Next Big Adventure. I am debating staying here exactly one more month. Undoubtedly it will cost more money, but the experience would be invaluable to my Spanish education. So I will definitely be in Dallas for the month of July. But who knows about June? Ben is leaving for Oklahoma in May, Jenny and Mark are sticking around through August. Annemarie is here indefinitely. Cici and Will are said to leave in May, but it appears Sara and Warner et al. are in it for the long haul. So I would not be alone. And three months is a good chunk of time to really know a place. I’d still be on my tourist visa, not that it matters since I’ll have a passport stamp from Chile after this week. And in June there is a planned trip to Brazil…

So we shall see. Tonight I plan to hit up La Bomba de Tiempo, a drum circle concert event on Sarmiento that only costs $10 pesos. I was planning on going alone if no one would join me, but it seems Mark is interested in attending. I’ll let you know how it goes. After a quick lunch at home I might stop by the horse races. It seems there are only races on Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays, with a monthly event on Sundays. So today might be my best bet. Annemarie and Jenny have papers to write, and it’s a bit of a colder, dreary day. But not too bad for a quick walk to El Hipodromo. I should try to make some big bucks for our Chilean adventure, but I'm not much for gambling. Chau chau.