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HOLY FUCK!!!

So.. the story goes like this... as many of you know I come from Bolivia, down in South America, from La Paz... I come from a middle class family that was really wealthy 2 generations ago but that, by the time I was born, had fallen from grace thanks to my uncles mainly who were just... plain stupid. But well.. the point is that the side of my family was the "crazy" side.. my grandfather lived in NY city back in 1912 and when he came back in 1922 he just did a bunch of really awesome stuff... he was very special, maybe one day I'll tell you more about him. My dad was a socialist... his two cousins where in the guerilla and died fighting in the jungle, he was in jail for almost a year before being sent to Chile, just in time to see Allende being assassinated by the Army... then Sweden, and then Spain... he came back and married my mum and I was born...

My story is long and twisted... I wont go into details... I just was a weird kid... people said i was "smart" but I wouldn't define myself as that... I was just curious... passionate and always feeling out of place. Many things happened that I turned more and more self disciplined, sometimes even fanatic. Spend most of my youth reading books or falling to the ground skateboarding... Im going to fast forward in time from here I dont want to bore you with details Archaeology was my savior it helped me have a job where I can be always traveling and meeting the most incredible people. I was fortunate to work for the University of California, Berkeley, the AMNH, The Smithsonian Institution, National Geographic.. name it.. Ive been there I even appear in a Discovery Channel show (isnt that fing nuts?). And one day they told me, why dont you apply to grad school? Get a PhD man! And I was.. yeah , why not? Being paid to read and travel? To explore the Jungle in a motorcycle with only a GPS and a Machete? Im in so I applied, got a scholarship and Im here in Cambridge (Big Leagues now, most humbling moment? Every day).

So today I got an invitation to go to a reception for all of us who have a Cambridge Scholarship, nothing out of the ordinary but today I got a security debriefing and I was.. WTF? Why so much security for a cocktail party? And then I read it

Distinguished guests
We are delighted to say that both our Patron, HRH The Prince of Wales, and the
Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, will be
attending the event. There will also be several of our Trustees and other
senior representatives of the University there.

THE MTF PRINCE OF WALES!!!

If when I was a kid someone would have told me that I was going to come THIS FAR I would have just laughed

SURREAL

Thank you people! Of course this blog is insane, and ridicoulus People have REAL problems in the world, some of you, my dear friends are sick, or depressed, or lonely... some are recovering from traumatic events, and some are just plainly unhappy and I am bragging about being in the same room with a famous dude

But I swear to god If I could put all of you naked and no naked friends in my head for you to be there and share my surreal life I totally would.

PEACE! and HASTA SIEMPRE!