1998 - 2003

1998 

The first time I heard about “Cape Cod” was through one of my best friends at that time in the spring of 1998 “Caonabo”. There were opportunities for college students to spend the summer working in the United States in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This time Caonabo and Hermes would leave the country for the summer of 1998. One day I went with Caonabo to the university Library and we looked for a large encyclopedia of maps, we both saw the map of Cape Cod for the first time. The encyclopedia was alone on a small table. 

Identical image of the encyclopedia at the university.

I spent that summer on the same normal things. The day before Caonabo and Hermes arrived a group of friends waited for them. Caonabo arrived driving from the capital with his Dad. They came in with giant hair straw, CDs, clothes and full of incredible stories. They had girlfriends, etc. I never thought of going to that place, although I wanted to, because it was very difficult for me at that time. But in a way that trip that they had, gone marked me in a certain way. After that and time later the boys did not return to Cape Cod or did mention any about it.

2002 

Four years later, many things had happened to me and changed the entire previous scene. New friends, different activities and experienced so many things. But this time it would be my cousins “​​Jochi and Américo” who returned “the Cape Cod theme” and reborn the same intensities that I had felt in 1998. At the same time other friends of mine from that time “Dalvin and Rodolfo” also talked about going to Cape Cod (Apparently it was at full steam to visit that place) and that they would go to spend the summer of 2002 working there. I felt a nostalgic feeling of not being able to go this time with my cousins and my friends, because they are going to a place that had previously opened my curiosity and had been like a dream for four years. The first to leave were my cousins. We said goodbye to Jochi at the house of a friend who played dominoes. I don't know what happened, but Americo did not go to play dominoes. Days later i remember one night before Dalvin left, we were at “Mamita’s” a place for drinking beers, we made a kind of farewell because we always spent nights drinking beer there. Dalvin took me to my house in a white truck and some of us went in the back and said goodbye getting out from behind the truck and watching it leave. They all left in the middle of May 2002. Anyway, I spent a very quiet summer with my Dad, my grandmother and other friends also with my things and emotional discoveries from that moment.

When my cousins ​​returned they came with stories and many things in their suitcases. As well as my friends of the moment Dalvin and Rodolfo brought stories of incredible adventures and crazy things that happened to them in that place. So much inspiration brought me all those stories that I thought maybe i could go the next year and live those experiences and adventures on my own.

2003

One year happened very quickly that I did not even realize it, and my cousins ​​and my friends prepared their next summer again and were able to go and they encouraged me to go, but it was complicated again and perhaps also part of neglect on my part. I spoke with my dad to go there. Although I was not in the university at that time, I could not apply with the program, but if I could perhaps go with the USA visa that I had, Dalvin recommended that I could work with them in “Roofing” fixing roofs as he had done the previous year. However once again I had been unable to go to Cape Cod.

While they boys were there, I once called Dalvin to see how everything was there. He told me that I still had time to go, but I told him that it's impossible i couldn't. Later Dalvin came first with his brother Nathanael and they told me that Rodolfo was going crazy with a girlfriend he had had there and that he had long hair. Certainly when Rodolfo finally arrived I waited for him at his house and it was an effusive hug. He told me a thousand stories and the whole journey of how he had met a Russian girl (Ania) and they had a movie relationship and crazy things. He told me about how he visited a beach every night with his girl. This euphoria in him lasted many months and I was very happy because I was glad that he had enjoy that “like a movie” in his life, one that he wants to have.