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Cesar is the guy who runs the music of the show. He comes here and does all the things related to the music and it is really brilliant because he comes up with many things.

We are telling him all the songs and music that we want to use in the show. We are going for music that make us laugh, like a ding-dong and also the one of a Bollywood movie.

And almost every time Cesar plays a new tune in the piano Stephan comes to me and let’s me know into my ear, in a very quite voice how amazing he thinks Cesar is.

“Have you seen him?” ”He plays everything.” “It has to be amazing to go to one place, arrive a little bit late and then go and be able to do your own thing very well and with no fuss.

We are going along. We are not going really fast taking in consideration that the show is going to open in two weeks and we are trying to write a new show.

I do not know what to think. We have been here since the 27^th and it has been raining the whole time. Well, let me think, the first day did not rain but that has been the only one.

 all got bicycles. We are in Amsterdam so it would be a little bit stupid to be here and not to have a bicycle. Everybody here has a bicycle. This morning it was raining a lot and everybody was in a bicycle. They go on the bikes with an umbrella so they do not get wet but in fact they do get really wet. Every time I look at them I think it is amazing that they ride their bike with the umbrella and then they pretend that they are avoiding the rain. But while I was riding my bike to the rehearsal place I could see how everybody gets completely wet in his or her bikes and they do not care.The only thing I can think is that they are used to get really wet or that this rain that I think it is as if the sky is going to fall on my head is nothing compare with what they are used in these places.

Petra, Toby and me got a bike but Stephan did not get one. He says that he does not like them. They are those kind of bikes that you get in rental places here in Holland. They are called Mac Bikes. They are very good bikes but if someone still the bike form us we would have to pay 400 euros. He said that he does not want to take the risk.

I think we would all end up buying our own mean machines and ride the streets of Amsterdam like a bunch of Hells Angels.

This is the place where we rehear. Supposedly it is a theatre but I have not seen any stage just yet. What I have seen is a considerable amount of rooms that were used by people doing acting or singing or things related to the performing arts.

It is my first day of rehearsal for the Palazzo show and it is a little bit scary to go and start.

The fist day is always fun but the reality of the situation is that also creates a really bad felling because it gives you a very clear idea of how much you still have to create. At the moment every time we do something I cannot stop thinking in the amount of work ahead.

And then I do not have any toilet paper in my flat. The person that was living there and has rented the flat to Palazzo did not leave anything in the flat. There are some things like plates and shits and blankets and towels but there is nothing to eat and nothing to drink and nothing to clean. So the first night I did have a shit without taking in consideration that I did not have anything to clean my ass so when the time to wipe my ass came I had to pick a piece of the newspaper and by squeezing really hard I managed to make it soft enough as to wipe my silly a delicate asshole. Ja,Ja,ja,

And it is really scary. This morning my wife has left the bed and has come all the way to the door downstairs for the first time in a long time to say well by.

With this I am trying to give you an idea of the importance of this journey that Spymonkey and me of course are about to begin. I do not remember when was the last time that Miren came to say well by. I do not want to say nasty things about Miren that is not my intention at all, we travel a lot so it is normal that we do not make a big deal of the fact that we are not going to see each others for a while.

My father took me to airport. My mum had bought for me a couple of chorizos so my time in Amsterdam would not be very terrible when it come to food. I staffed them into my suitcase as best I could. I was going to be five months in another country and I needed a big suitcase and I needed many things.

I mean another country … I do not know what is London now? Is London my country? Or is it Spain? I spent even time in Spain and in London so I am going to another country and this one is Holland.

I had to pay some money for carrying with me extra weight but the Amsterdam production will pay for it so I am not worry.

They came to pick me up at the airport. It was Maaike. She is going to be the stage manager and she is very nice. She took me to my flat. A one bedroom flat in a street called Von Bassetrasse that is not very big, the flat, the street is quite big. The best thing of the flat is that is very close to the Tent were we will be working. The worst thing is that is quiet far away from the centre of town and that is going to make me fell a little bit lonely. Lets hope for the best.

It has been one of those days were nothing goes according to plan. The only good thing is that I did not have a plan.

I took my suitcase out this morning and I put it back immediately because I was not going to use that one I was going to use a better and lighter one. I tried to have everything that I was planning to take with me in the room and then at one point of the day put it all inside the suitcase. The problem once again is that I did not have a plan with the things I was going to take so I ended up just doing a very messy suitcase where pots of anchovies where placed with trainers and underpants were holding shocks, I took lots of sports clothes because I was planning to do lots of exercise but I never do any exercise but I took the clothes anyway.

I tried to go to lunch with Miren to the Tudelilla Tavern but there were not spaces so we had to go to another one I we ate not very well.

I had just arrived from London and I was looking forward to a nice meal with a nice bottle of wine. Miren did not have to work so … some days nothing happens as you expect.

I thought that when I do not plan things happens with no expectations but I was wrong.

Should I think that this is a bad omen for the time ahead of me?

There is not going to be time to stay home and fell as if I have been at home for enough time so I can go to Holland and think and fell that I am ready for another job full of surprises because all the jobs are full of surprises.

Nowadays, while the hear on my moustache and beer gets more white hairs than before I can recognised in new jobs things that I lived in the pass. That probably says that I am doing jobs that look a little bit a like. It also says that I am getting older and more experience but at the same time I do not fell wiser. Should I fell like that? To say that I am wiser it would be completely stupid. Saddly in this profesion you never know anything. Probalby the fact that you have been doing the same shit for many years help you to find the way forward but that is the only thing that helps. You find your way forward but you never know if that is the right way. The audience would let you know in a very rude and painful way the first day you show your show.

Have fun and I keep you inform.

I received this mail from Petra wandering if I have received my flight to be in Amsterdam on the 27^th before 7 in the evening. I did received I told her. Ursula the girl from the Office affairs sent me an e-mail this morning with the details. I am flying in the morning with Iberia, Bilbao-Madrid and then Madrid- Amsterdam. I will be there by three o’clock. I imagine I will be going to my apartment and then we will meet to work. It is going to be a very stressful couple of weeks. We have to create the show by the 16^th of October and if they show it is not very clear we will end up working non stop in the show. And my desire towards the show is that we have some specific sections where we do our staff and they well fixed and not improvise. Because if it is like that then we can get really well in a short time but if not nothing will be forever and everything could change depending of the audience that come to see the show and that would be terrible and very tiring.

Because when you do what we have to do there you need to know what it is that you have to do so you can defended but if you do not know then you are in troubles.

So, it is done. I have not signed the contract but I am about to buy my plane ticket for Christmas because we have five days off. That really pleasses me because I thought I was not going to be able to come back home for a very long time.

And also I am scared of the dutchs, remember that not so long time ago they were Germans. I think. Perhaps they were not? Well, I … am sure they hate me because in the pass we killed many of then and they killed some of us but … I am sure we killed more. We are good in killing.

I have one of those days where I am not going to do anything. I had decided yesterday that with the beginning of the week I was going to go out with my bike to be able by the end of the week of riding for 100km in one day. I am doing 25 to 40 everyday I go out with my bike. So I told myself last night “that’s it Aitor, tomorrow you start to trein like a professional so you loose weight and you get in shape” and this morning I could not even leave my bed like everyday (read this like a desperation scream).

I tried and I tried but my body was not taking any shit. And what can I say of my will power. My will power was having glasses of wine with my self-discipline and not planning to stop in the very near future.

So I have just been able to breakfast, read my book and answer some e-mails and this evening I have to go to a funeral.