We hung out at first, went to a show, took the bus to a place or 2 before I got really sick. I couldn’t drink or eat, or even swallow my own spit. Something was horribly wrong with my throat. I laid in bed and waited for it to pass but it only seemed to get worse. She tried to tell me where the hospital was, but knew I would have trouble getting in soon, so she walked me there and talked to the first nurse. The nurse decided I was near death and that I could see someone (its free health care so first come first serve and they don’t care if you’re seen or not). The girl left me there and I waited my turn. Other than that, she never helped me with anything out of the ordinary.

We were becoming friends so helping me wasn’t unheard of, and since I was paying a ridiculous price fo ra room with only a really crappy bed in it, and she didnt have a job aside from ripping off tourists (believe me, that was the only option at the time, most rooms will try to rip you off there). She also brags to have helped me from the airport but, even though it wasn’t my fault that my flight was changed (and i did email her warning her) she had a driver show up both days,  I should have only had to pay for one, but it wasn’t his fault she cant read english very well (she claimed she didnt understand “ill be in town Friday instead of Thursday”). I would have saved money getting a taxi.

Long story short, after my being sick in bed for days, her turning out to be a constant complainer about Buenos Aires (everything bad about the place is not what i needed to hear when i just moved across the world to be there), my culture shock and her deleting emails on my computer while I was away looking at apartments. This ones fun, so… she didn’t like some french girl so she deleted my emails from a french girl.. not even the same girl. The stay ended with her yelling at me about not smiling at her or being talkative every time I walked from the bedroom to the kitchen to get something to drink (this after she got into my computer)… or something like that. Then she yelled at me about when im moving (this was 2 days before i was paid till) because she needs a day to clean an empty room with a bed in it.. which i told her I would clean. Cleaning to a spoiled rotten brazilian girl is apparently a really big deal. After I moved she sent me a few emails about how many favors she did for me, apparently forgetting she has free will, I said thanks, and I was after all paying her allot to stay in her crappy place. I eventually just had to ignore her till she went away.

A week ago, she started again, 2+years later.. How could I have made SUCH a big impression on her, with all the stupid tourists she probably housed for way too much rent, why would I stand out? Well it really started before that because she left comments on this very blog saying negative things about pitbulls and that I  “lie to landlords”. I don’t consider calling my dog a terrier mix (since she is.. why does a pitbull mixed with a lab have to be a pitbull mix and not a lab mix?!), sending PHOTOS and videos of her and offering references, lying. in any way. In the most recent emails, she called me a loser (she knows no facts about me or my life at all), said that I was poor American trash (shes super racist.. in a way only brazilians can be.. shes afraid of pitbulls and black people, so sad) and when I responded with things like “you don’t know me and I don’t know you, what exactly is you’re reasons for emailing me”, she replied with “why dont you get a real dog, that pitbulls site is really pathetic”. That pissed me off so I replied by telling her that “fear = ignorance and she never had any problems with my dog, and knows nothing about me or my dog so again, what is the problem?” and also that “I don’t really respect the opinion of racist people who act like children so, you cant really offend me anyway”. I then created a filter in gmail so that her emails would be deleted, not even in the trash bin, just gone. I told her that I did that and “there’s no point in emailing me anymore”. What did she do next?! She CALLED ME FROM BRAZIL at 7 in the morning! I don’t think she knew i would answer so she stuttered and stammered “STOP.. EMAILING ME!…. BIEEETCH!”. I laughed and she hung up. I had stop emailing her, in fact, I was making an attempt to stop her as well. She then emailed me from my website contact form, again throwing insults at my dog?! Seriously! I’m not comparing my dog to furniture AT ALL, but insulting someones pet is like insulting someone chair or second cousin they’ve never met, its the most nonsensical useless level to sink to. She doesn’t know anything about Chena or me. She also said something to the effect of “I’m as white as you are! but I’m not trash like you!” .. that made me laugh and realize that although she calls herself a translator, she must be the worst in South America because she misread everything I wrote from the beginning, only getting out of it what she wanted to and running like hell with it.

Its just so funny how having a dog like a pitbull makes some really stupid people feel they know things about you, or your dog. Like there are FACTS associated with pitbull owners or even pitbulls. Anyone who knows anything about anything knows that no two people and no two dogs are the same,. We are all products of our upbringing and personal choice and development. My dog came from a pound as a slinking, abused, sad little dog and now she is the smartest most amazing dog ever. We practically have our own language and can communicate anything a 4 year old kid can to each other. It makes me sad that some people choose to be ignorant of the possibilities life can have by being afraid and judging other people and animals. Its really really really sad and I feel sorry for them.

p.s. – This is no joke, this is what the girl looks like, thought it the moment i met her. She also squats like this all the time while she talks to people. Since I didnt have a photo just imagine Gollum with big poofy hair.