Day 20-The Emergency Room & The Supposed Interview

By the title, I'm sure you are probably wondering what happened at the Emergency Room. Don't worry...Nothing happened to me. I took my friend Joel to the ER to have his ankle checked out because he sprained it on Tuesday playing basketball. Luckily, nothing was broken, and it was nothing more than a sprain and he just has to stay off it for a few days. I was rather impressed with the ER that we went to; we arrived at 1:30PM and were out of there in about 3 hours (give or take). Considering past experiences at the ER, this was incredible and more or less efficient. Before I took Joel to the ER, I had an interview scheduled with Trompetica, a very famous Cuban trumpet player living in Miami. We had the interview scheduled for 12PM (Noon) in Little Havana (at my translator's apartment). I arrived promptly at Noon, and ended up waiting until 1PM, making small talk with the translator, with no sign of Trompetica. We tried to call him every fifteen minutes and he never picked up or called us back. To date, we have not heard from him. It was very peculiar, but unfortunately things like this happen. Luckily I have plenty of other people to interview, but it would have been nice to at least have a phone call from Trompetica saying that he could not make it or something like that. Unfortunately, thats the way things go sometimes and as they say, you just have to "roll with the punches." I was able to finally set-up an interview and lesson with Paquito Hechavarría for Wednesday, which made my Wednesday very busy because I also had an interview with the 93-year old José Curbelo in the early afternoon. Take a look at Day 21's Blog to read about these two interviews!