Gettin Down

Hello All!
Last night was really fun. After eating onces (like a pre-dinner) with my friend Noah, we went out with some of my roomates to a new bar called La Playa. There, we encountered Belly dancers, majicians and a really good live string band who all took turns performing throughout the night. The belly dancing was really fun to watch, as their costumes were so elaborate and movements so fluid! The majicians were pretty good (one definately better than the other) and the BAND! wooohooo! man, it was fun. It has been SO long since Ive heard some good ole string music. There was a violinist, bass guitarrist and two other guitars (maybe???) and they played songs as close to bluegrass as South America can get! haha. Naturally, the music moved us, and soon we were just Gettin Down in the bar dance floor. It was a hoot. I think a lot of people didnt really know what to do with the music, and therefore werent as into dancing as us, but, igual, it was a great vibe.
And speaking of great vibes....
MAN have I been feeling them lately! woo! I just feel good. It has been sunny and nice here the past couple of days, and today I rode my bike to Viña along the coast listening to Stevie Ray Vaughn which ruled. On the way back, I stoped for a reflective ocean sunset moment and thanked everything for all that I was seeing and experiencing at that exact moment. My new place, a new home, new ground and ocean.
...Also on the way home, I saw and chatted with a girl from my program. She was really upset because she had missed a volunteering session due to a bad migrane, and one of the organizers had kind of come down on her for not going. Being her first semester here, she was just really frusterated with not being able to communicate how she was feeling emotionally to her family here and the program organizers, etc... There was a moment where she "melted" and kind of began to cry, at which I gave her a big hug and nice words. Her moment passed, and we continued to chat about the difficulty of trying and explaining deep, complex emotions in another language. She got better, and eventually appologized for her momentary meltdown. I told her an appology was not necessiary.
Later, I was thinking about why we appologize for the very moments that make us human. If we bitch to a friend about something that happened, or talk about things that bother us or cry... We appologize, "ugh, sorry...". But why??
Ive noticed down here that people dont say "sorry" as much. It is more "excuse me, too bad, etc..." but not "sorry". Unless you do something bad. (vague, I know but I think Im losing a little writing steam here.....)
So anyways, maybe instead of appologizing for our emotions, we should just leave them alone. Leave them as they are. Maybe then we could express what really needs to be expressed. In any language.
Chau chau!