{"id":2155,"date":"2013-06-26T17:27:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T21:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2024-01-29T12:22:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T17:22:32","slug":"los-chicos-en-la-calle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/los-chicos-en-la-calle\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Chicos en la Calle by Constantine Dhonau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up quick at about noon,<br \/>\njust thought that I had to Estudio Sempere soon.<br \/>\nGotta get dressed before the day begins<br \/>\nBefore Nayely starts naggin &#8220;Venga chicos! Salen!&#8221;<br \/>\nStepped outside and I almost went blind<br \/>\nYoung espa\u00f1os on the block spinning tops with twine<br \/>\nRan in the house to grab my keys<br \/>\nForget them things every time I leave<\/p>\n<p>Bailed outside and I pointed in the direction<br \/>\nOf the autobus just as Tristan was steppin<br \/>\nJumped inside, paid the pass for my ride<br \/>\nI got front, Brennan center, Tristan side to side<\/p>\n<p>Then I let the salsa play<br \/>\nThey were NOT bumpin my jams from NWA<br \/>\nWe were gangster spaniards at the top of the list<br \/>\nThen I played my own kicks plugged til our stop was next<\/p>\n<p>Walkin down the street to the plaza mayor<br \/>\nCheckin out the the tiendas, those are stores<br \/>\nWalked past the park towards the institute<br \/>\nKnuckle heads out there all day shootin some hoop<\/p>\n<p>A car pulls up who can it be?<br \/>\nNo time for that we&#8217;re late already<br \/>\nHe rolls down his window and he starts to say<br \/>\nSomething in Spanish pero no comprende<\/p>\n<p>Down on the central calles is the plaza to give me peace<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s so full of life and decorated beautifully<br \/>\nI walk straight on through but I don&#8217;t waste time<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re gettin later and later every second goes by<\/p>\n<p>Walk inside Sampere and what do I find<br \/>\nLa clase empieza without Brennen and I<br \/>\nPockets jinglin from euros cuz there ain&#8217;t no dollars<br \/>\nLo siento to Juaqu\u00ecn so he doesn&#8217;t holler<\/p>\n<p>They greet us with saludes so we start speaking<br \/>\nMe falta cepillar los dientes so my breath starts stinking<br \/>\nSoon is the siesta so we all can breathe<br \/>\nBefore I left muchas gracias to my boy Juaqu\u00ecn<\/p>\n<p>Went for a walk to get out of the pad<br \/>\nThen Brennen said something to make me mad<br \/>\nHe said something that I couldn&#8217;t believe<br \/>\nHe said he&#8217;s not a big fan of Spanish grafitti<\/p>\n<p>Kept on talkin so I said \u00bfclaro?<br \/>\nLooked me in the eye and said its just a joke bro!<br \/>\nGood thing cuz I would have started to shout<br \/>\nYOU DON&#8217;T KNOW NOTHIN BOUT THE UNDERGROUND<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re talkin hard now in the Spanish roll<br \/>\nMaria&#8217;s got us all talkin like we were pros<br \/>\nWe said a few pieces about each other<br \/>\nTalked politics, weather, even house mothers<\/p>\n<p>Walkin home gotta stop to get a pass for bus rides<br \/>\nNow we&#8217;re Rollin fat with tarjetas to swipe<br \/>\nAs We busted a U, someone got pulled over<br \/>\nAn undercover cop in a Fiat city rover<\/p>\n<p>We stepped up the street without a rest<br \/>\nDidn&#8217;t want to stop near the cop so he wouldn&#8217;t arrest<br \/>\nNow we&#8217;re past the round about, didn&#8217;t witness the crime<br \/>\nRollin on our way and were makin good time<\/p>\n<p>I went to get them out but they wouldn&#8217;t bail<br \/>\nThe keys were stuck in my pack like they were in jail<br \/>\nTwo days before when I got me from the start<br \/>\nDidn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d have a problem opening the door to the front<\/p>\n<p>Obstruction of my reach I would judge<br \/>\nChecked the door to see of it was unlocked but it didn&#8217;t budge<br \/>\nBrennen had a spare so he turned it in<br \/>\nLooked back over his shoulder with a menacing grin<\/p>\n<p>We heard a sound from higher and down came Stefani<br \/>\nThe girl from Holland running out the door confused me<br \/>\nShe screeched out some Spanish but nobody heard her<br \/>\nShe was halfway down the street by that time, I still wonder&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Cuz Los chicos en la casa son SIEMPRE duro<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re talkin in Spanish til it hurts our noodle<br \/>\nYeah we know its hard but we never quit<br \/>\nBy the end of 3 weeks we&#8217;ll be fluent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up quick at about noon, just thought that I had to Estudio Sempere soon. Gotta get dressed before the day begins Before Nayely starts naggin &#8220;Venga chicos! Salen!&#8221; Stepped outside and I almost went blind Young espa\u00f1os on the block spinning tops with twine Ran in the house to grab my keys Forget them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/los-chicos-en-la-calle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Los Chicos en la Calle by Constantine Dhonau<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":2235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spain","category-study-abroad","tag-spanish-language-immersion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9510,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions\/9510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}