Gallo Girls

Thursday night the housemates and I went to check out a free concert in the stadium. Turns out free also means that it was entirely sponsored by Gallo (the pride of Guatemala...a super cheap beer). This means that the concert, which was supposed to start at 7, actually began with a TWO-HOUR intro of parading the four "Gallo Girls" around the stage and tossing merchandise into the crowd of 12-16 year old Guatemalan boys who were likely only enthused for about an hour by the Gringa-looking models on the stage. Finally at 9PM a Guatemalan band came on (they were the openers for the main event, Malacates) that opened with an Incubus song, 'Wish You Were Here.' It was followed with 3 other covers one of which was a rather garbled version of Buckcherry's 'Crazy B****.' Now, it was not only the band's fault that they were having empty (or full?) Gallo cans chucked at them...the sound engineers clearly did not know how to turn the vocals up and the guitar down...and...one of the connections was bad so there was a rather loud static throughout the entire set. Somewhat intrigued by the disaster of a concert, we stuck around just to see the headliner after another half hour of Gallo girl torture. They turned out to be a Guatemalan ska band but it was too hard to tell through the terrible sound system so we left for La Sala where it was ladies night and we...attempted to...dance salsa all night (well, I must say housemate Guido and I got pret-ty good by the end). This is us leaving... R->L: Melissa (here 'til November or December), Brian (moving in in a couple weeks), Guido (moving out this weekend).

If I can say one thing good about Guatemalan concerts though...it's that it is always really easy to see the stage because Guatemalans are so short!