Fiesta Latina en Arco Atico

Oh my God, what a night! ;) Yesterday, we had a real Latino Party in our flat! No, that’s not a joke, the truth is that we had people from three different Southamerican countries, two guitars, four hours of music and about 20 guests!
Let me explain: Carol has a friend from Brasil who lives in Salamanca. Her boyfriend is from Chile, but also lives here and plays in a band. One of the other members of that band is an Argentinian guy who came here as well, together with a friend of his, also Argentinian. They arrived with their guitars and we were able to enjoy our private concert in our living room together with the students from the flat downstairs and others! They played some songs they had written themselves (impressively good!!) and many, many other songs in Spanish – when they played “en el muelle de San Blas” by Maná, I was really close to tears!!!
It was also interesting to talk to them, although I must admit, I felt like a total idiot when I spoke to one of the Argentinians and had to realize that I didn’t understand a word – although he’s been living in Salamanca for five years or something, his accent is so strong that I couldn’t believe that what he spoke was Spanish! It was just like my first experience in Manchester about 8 years ago, when I thought I already understood English pretty well and then asked myself what language the people there were actually speaking…
However, the fun of the evening turned into a little shock when all the guests left short after 2am. We were just about to go to bed (obviously without bringing all the glasses into the kitchen or doing the dishes), when the doorbell rang. Carol opened and there were two men who looked awfully serious and like a lot of trouble… One of them showed us his ID card – like in a movie, when the police officers open their wallets to prove that they are sherrifs or something!! Apparently the neighbour downstairs had called them because the music was too loud and he couldn’t sleep… We had already been wondering why this guy hadn’t come upstairs before because we had already had some discussions with him because the water seems to be leaking from our bathroom into his and he wanted us to fix it! More than annoying… anyway, so yesterday these guys told us that it was not acceptable what was going on here and that actually they had to give us a fine of 300 euros (!!!) and that he wanted to see our passports. Imagine what a shock we had! We knew that actually it was neither allowed to have guests in these student flats nor to make noise between 11pm and 8am, but well… In the end however, they just took Carol’s details (don’t ask me what for) and left, but none of us could go to sleep, that was just too much for one evening! So now were just hoping that this won’t have any consequences…!