A week or so ago, I hung out with Jen on her second last day in San Francisco. She really wanted to visit Dolores park, which I thought was fitting seeing as its a pretty iconic SF place. It was a pretty warm day, despite it being January, and Jen bought some fresh strawberries, some beer, and some corn chips w/ dip to indulge on. We sat at the top of Dolores park because of the view, but I only just realised that there are apparently different districts in the park that only locals know of. So a few days ago I went with some of my local friends to the park again to chill, and they told me that the top of the hill is where all the gay men sit (It has a specific name but I forgot it), and apparently at the bottom of the hill is where all the college kids are. Thats funny because every time I visit something with different groups of people, I always get different things from it. I need to learn more local knowledge in order to self-identify as a local (ha). There's also this asian man who's ALWAYS there everytime i go, what he does is he balances a bowling ball of some sort on a very thin plastic tube and tries to walk around and jump with it without the ball falling off. The first time I saw him, I was pretty impressed that this guy had the talent to do this. But then I figured out that the ball's actually attached to the tube. Which means that the guy's got no talent, and is all crazy. Dolores park has a LOT of crazies.
Also, I was told that there are heaps of couples who do balancing tricks with each other (ie. the guy lays on his back, and the woman tries to balance herself on his legs in the air) which I thought was completely random. Do they have a professional group of balancing couples or is this just a trend for couples to try and balance on each other in the park?
- Things I need to find out before I leave.
After the park, we met up with Simone to go bar hopping. Since I'm not 21 yet, and they're all over 21, I felt like such a hassle since we had to find a bar without bouncers to get into. The first one we tried was Vertigo bar on Polk st, which had no bouncers. Jen got a drink and we sat down, and I approached the bar to buy a drink. Then they kicked us out because I didn't have a government issued ID... even though Jen hadn't even started on her drink yet. Then we went to a couple more bars, and finally found one (I forgot the name of the bar but something starting with Hi--- ) It was an average bar but, since I got in, and since there seemed to be a lot of people, we decided to stay. We had a nice chat and then we decided to go back to mine for some more chills but Simone ran into a lot of troubles with her housing, so she didn't end up going. Jen came over, and I invited a couple more people over to hang later that night. Pretty eventful day.
I'd throw my pie for you,
Emma
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