You Never Know

Thursday night around 8 o'clock Tom and I wandered around the area outside of campus. I like walking at night because the streets here are very dark (they do not have street lights!) which means less staring.

Maneuvering through the street vendors, pedestrians, cars, bicycles, scooters, and other wheeled-vehicles we came upon a small park. There was gentle music playing, but we couldn't see what was going on because we were standing behind big tarps which we guessed surrounded a make-shift stage. We followed some others through a broken part of the fence behind the tarps and walked around the side. Inside the tarped area there were all kinds of clothes for sale, and in front of it there were big lights set up and people ballroom dancing. Instead of being the spectacle, for a while we were able to stand in the shadows and be spectators, watching them slowly move about the park with sometimes awkward western movements.