I was looking for Geoffrey in the fish market. Rushing a bit, I stopped short as somebody had slung a huge fish off a cart onto another cart and were slitting it widthwise... A guy said, "do you want a cheap octopus?" I was scanning above the crowd as usual for a whitish head. "Buy some anchovies, girl!" I am looking for a person, not a fish!

By now I should be able to ask them, "have you seen my boyfriend?" I think they probably would recognise him, and have probably seen me chasing around after him.

Here you can see part of my life - a lot of the people in my life - my teacher, people I hang out with, the guy I got a ride with to the flamenco competition, the old man who hangs out at the peña on Friday afternoon. Jesus, the manager of the peña, one of the first people I spoke to in Jerez, who remembers how shy I was back in 2010. And Pepe, my 78 year old dancer friend. I think some other dancer friends are in it, but I have not watched the whole thing yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5YqwH-tyEBA#t=2650

This is a documentary made by the BBC, and goes through several Andalucian cities. The part on Jerez starts at around 43:00 minutes. Right there you can see a party with all these people I just mentioned.

Then around 46:20, there is another party and this is especially so you can see Pepe El Zorri dancing. Geoffrey and I just had him over for lunch. He is the cousin of a very famous singer, Paquera, whose birthplace is beside our house. He told us at lunch, of how he went with Paquera when he was only 23, to do shows, and about a show in Ronda, where he and Paco Cepero (very famous guitarist, who I saw in black and white videos one of the first ones I knew in flamenco - I see him walking his dog sometimes now), well they went wandering around the town, and the girls coming up to talk to them, and showed up 15 minutes after the show was supposed to start, and everybody was mad, cause Paco had to help Paquera warm up and tune the guitar and all. Paco was only 18 or 19.
Then Pepe told us that they brought Farruco to dance with them for some shows, and he had to go up and dance just a bit of a duo with Farruco (granddaddy of flamenco dancers, a legend, long dead).

Anyways, I wanted to show you all.

Here is another one, a show that just happened several friday nights ago. We werent there, cause we got up next morning early to go to Extremadura. This is a great one of Pepe El Zorri dancing. He comes up near the beginning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfbFULhxZIc

Jose Mendez, Pepe's nephew whom he travels and dances with a lot, sings at the beginning and then Luis El Zambo sings near the end.