That night we were invited to go to a party, it wasn't a party and I don't know why they call it a party, it was a free benefit concert at one of the Univesidad Catolicas campuses. This meant I would meet more of Sam's friends and probably would involve drinking a fair amount like always. We were picked up from Sam's house, not too sure what the time was, maybe 19.00 or so and we were driven to the university by Sam's friend, one of the girls I had met in Villarrica. It was rush hour and the traffic was ridiculous, on the way to the university we stopped off to get some food and drink, or I got food, everybody else got food. Some had to buy long life foods to take to the concert, the concert was free but a condition of this was that everybody who went had to take something that could be sent to those who had been affected in the earthquake. I was really hungry now so bought quite a lot of food, I got some bread and cheese to make cheese sandwiches obviously, a packet of crisps to snack on and for some strange reason I don't know what came over me but I bought a salami, a whole salami not just slices in a pack. It was stupid of me but it was very nice, I now had cheese sandwiches and every so often could take a bit from my salami. Just after we had made our pit stop we had one more stop to do, we went to pick up one more of their friends, she was our ticket in, as she was the only one who went to the Universidad Catolica and it was supposedly a private concert for the students at the university. The campus was huge, it was like a little village but just full of buildings, lecture halls, libraries and students. Most the people there were drinking as there was rubbish, beer cans, beer bottles and general alcohol related rubbish. We found a patch around the back, not too far from the stage so we could still hear it but far enough so we could be in relative quite and also there were a lot less people. We had some beers in the car and bought some really cheap wine that came in 2litre cartons like the sort that would normally contain fruit juice, the wine was very cheap and very bad, not quite as bad as the one that we had when we went to the beach in Niebla. I got to meet some more of Sam's friends, some I had seen before but most I had never met and I don't know if I will ever see again, I also got to meet his best friend. I think Sam had told his friends a lot about me because they all knew my name and even some stories that Sam had told them when he lived in England and we were much younger, I think they probably know more than me as I can barely remember any of those stories.
The concert was pretty rubbish, I think they were local bands and artists but to me they were all awful, from where we were sitting all I could hear was a bad muffled sound coming from the speakers which was probably a good thing as the actual music would have sounded much worse. When we finally got round to actually going to the stage to see the bands, there was a hip hop outfit on, I say hip hop, it was much more like pop. They were similar to Sean Paul but more of them, even more poppy and the lyrics were all in Spanish. They were rubbish, I really wanted to get away from there as soon as I could and was excited that they finished in a couple of songs time so I didn't have to endure too much of it, until they did a couple of songs as an encore that is.
After the concert everybody was getting hungry so we went on a mission to find some food, maybe go to a restaurant or something. I had accidentally thought ahead in buying the salami as it came in very handy when I was very hungry, I also had a packet of crisps which made it even better. We finally came to a really shitty looking Chinese take away, I wasn't too hungry as the salami had helpfully filled the hole. I still ordered some food, the cheapest thing on the menu and it said that whatever it was there were eighteen of them. When they finally came out I was anxious to find out what they were, they ended up just being prawn crackers, why nobody was able to explain what they were I don't know, maybe they had never had them before as they were all very curious as to what they were when I was eating them. The take out gave some sachets of soy sauce but instead of being normal sachets the sauce was contained in these clear plastic tubes, possibly sections of tube and tied up at the end. The Girls made a big mess of the soy sauce and most of it ended up on the floor even when they got a plastic cup to put it in, one of them accidentally kicked it over and the soy sauce went everywhere. I was definitely sober now and was itching to go somewhere and do something, instead of standing outside the take out trying to figure out what to do, we must have been standing around for nearly an hour, maybe more. The girls went home to sleep and there was myself and a few more of Sam's friends left, we went to a nearby bottelleria to get some more alcohol, no real idea of what to get they all just decided to get tequila and have shots with salt and lemon. We didn't have salt so on the way to somebody's house we stopped off at Sam's to get some, I went in because I was very thirsty and needed the toilet really badly. Lemons acquired it was time to get to their friends place to get more drinking done, this time all having shots of tequila. Between six of us we managed to finish off a whole bottle doing shots in about half an hour so we opened up a couple of bottles of wine, they lasted quite a bit longer. A pro evolution soccer tournament started up and went on and on and on, it didn't actually end till gone 4 in the morning and everybody was tired now, Sam's best friends girlfriend had fallen asleep on the sofa, Sam was in and out of sleep when it wasn't his turn to play and everybody else was showing signs of fatigue including me, I could only think about laying in a bed and sleeping.