My telenovela, Bella Calamidades, ended on Wed. I´ve been watching it since my second or thrid week in Nicaragua, so about 5 months now. And what happened in those 5 months? Well, let me just give you a little picture of the magic that is a Latin soap opera... Lola, the main character, is an orphan who was a maid at the R house(everyone´s names began with R). The four sons were in in love with her and because of this she left to work at other places, like an abusive household, the local strip club(only as a maid), the church, and for the crazy old guy who turned out to be her grandpa. Grandpa died and left her tons of money. Several people fell in love with her along the way, but her heart was set on Marcelo. Marcelo was in and out of the little pueblo they lived, going to school, looking for Lola, writing his book, and looking for Lola some more. At one point they were engaged, but when he went to go tell his mom, Lorenza, his crazy cousin Priscilla accidently shot him whil trying to kill herself. Priscilla and her mom(whose name I never learned) were schemers the whole time. Priscilla(or prima as we called her, which means cousin) fell in love with Marcelo and one night, they hooked up(yeah gross) so the cuñada(mother in law, Priscilla´s mom) insisted they get married. Never did. In the last 3 episodes, everything we(my friends who followed it and I) wanted to happen did: Marcelo and Lola finally got together, Marcelo told the prima he didn´t want to marry her, and Lorenza kicked out thecuñada and the prima out. I left out a lot of other drama- Nicolasa the other R maid got preggers by Lorenza´s field hand Nacho, Regina(R Mom) thought one of her sons had impregnated her new maid but it wasn´t true, etc.
Now I´m free at 5pm. No more rushing home to watch it. What will I do with myself? I won´t have the added drama of Bellas in my life.
Above: Priscilla and the cuñada(the evil ones) and Marcelo and Lola.
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