They came to me
one day, these people from the University administration,
and asked me to take a study abroad trip to anywhere
I wanted and they would pay for it. Something about
giving opportunities to people who wouldn't get them
ordinarily. Now, I am from Argentina and my papa is
wealthy, so are all my uncles and their familias. The
UANT people had me confused with someone else about
opportunities, cause my dad could buy and sell these
people if he wanted to. So I phoned papa and told
him. He laughed so hard his cigar almost burned the
rug. Then, he asked
me where was I going? I said, "Shit papa, I don't know."
My papa suggested Austria, because Vienna is a beautiful
city of culture and there are great mountains and spas
there- so I signed up. He said he tried to go in
the 70s but couldn't get a visa background check to
pass. When the flight landed, I took a bus to my apartment,
papa was right it was great. I dropped off my bags
and went to St. Stephen's Church Platz, and began painting
(my specialization at UANT is art). Later I visited
the dinosaurs in the history museum. What a building
this Natural History museum is. My school is called
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, the Academy of Fine
Arts Vienna. I found out it has the distinction of rejecting
a young Hitler when he applied here after WWI, and I
took comfort in that and laughed about it with some
students. "They should've let him in," we
agreed, and then looked around and wondered what our
new colleagues would be doing if they weren't chilling
out the art school.
I like this place already, and the students'
culture is fantastic. We draw and critic each others'
work, constructively. The UANT art school is far inferior
in my opinion, because no one really makes art a social-interest
topic that fits into daily life, but here they do. I
saw great art in public spaces, and wrote down ideas
to take back to UANT about how to beautify UPC.
I did some DJing at a party, and we smoked a little,
but all that stopped abrutply cause the best part of my trip
started. Greta, an Austrian police cadet, and
I, became romantically involved. I'm keeping this PC
okay?! She was fantastic and
I fell in love with her. I cut the weed because I swear
she was psychic, she knew so much about me like if I
was lying or, better, exactly what I liked. We rented
movies, had candlelight dinners, and I practiced my
German and she her English and Spanish. One day while
examining more public art, I was fooling around at a
sculpture of a huge skull and inside I marveled that
while usually people have 'skeletons in the closet',
not many people are actually in a skeleton that IS a
closet! And suddenly I was approached by some people
claiming to be authorities. They cranked my head back
and put me to the ground. I screamed for... "Greta,
Greta!", and she
was there. "Help!", I yelled, but she just stared at me
blankly. The men said they were Mossad agents and then
they made up some
lies about me, saying I was the great-grandson of a
Nazi. "You should've done your homework,"
I yelled, "I am Argentine! Look at me!" But they
took me in. I called papa and
he hung up. I called back and said I was serious, and
in a flat voice he said me, "Son, have you ever heard of Aribert Heim?" I said, "Who the fuck is that?" And then
he said, "I'll give you a hint- he didn't invent
the Heimlich maneuver!" And then he hung up. Fuck.
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