The beginning.

Some years ago, I found myself partying in a house of international students in Monterrey, Mexico. It was the beginning of the semester, the house was full of people from different countries, pre-drinking before the official University's welcome party. As we were getting to know each other, there was a lot of "how do you say this?" or "how do you say that?" in your language. That's how I happened to learn the word Bafuss (Barefoot in german). I really liked the way it sounded, was a funny word in my head. By the end of the night, after several bottles of tequila, I was yelling Bafuss to everyone that I met that night.

Around this time, there was a fancy club in Monterrey named Art, a three floors building in the city centre. The first floor was a regular club with a bar, music and a place to dance. The second floor was like an art gallery, it had everything that a bunch of drunk people needed to draw (mainly penises). Finally, the third floor had a photo studio where you could put on costumes and take pictures in a set with lights and everything.

On one of this Uni Thursday; that can only end up with a big party, some friends and I went out to the Art. When we got to the second floor we started to paint Bafuss everywhere we could. After some time, people started to realize that a group of people, mainly blonde girls and french guys were painting this strange word everywhere. It didn't pass much time before people started to asked what was Bafuss? We just answered "Bafuss is Bafuss..."

People started to write it on their bodies. Image by @cnandofer

People started to write it on their bodies. Image by @cnandofer

As we kept telling people "Bafuss is Bafuss" to a club full of drunk people while writing Bafuss every where, the drunk people were more eager to know the meaning of this word (or maybe they were just trying to get lucky with the blondies). People was intrigued about this Bafuss and at some they were asking to get Bafuss painted in their body.

Picture that doesn't proof that I've paint the window. Image by @cnandofer

The poor guy that had to clean the mess. Image by @cnandofer

Sadly, I spent that night mostly running away from the bouncer of the club, going from one floor to another, because I may have or may have not, painted Bafuss in a very big window of the club. After that night I started to play with this word every time that I was going out, I printed little papers and started putting it everywhere, was the best way to start a conversation with unknown people anywhere that I was going.

I've no idea of who is this people... Image by @cnandofer

Two of the biggest Bafuss ambassadors, with a random guy* Image by @cnandofer

With the time, I travelled more and more and started to take pictures of the places where I was with the word Bafuss, it became something personal to me to the point that people started to see it like my brand, signature or whatever you want to call it. From time to time I receive pictures from friends from around the world with Bafuss on it which always puts a smile in my face. Sometimes is hard to move from place to place leaving friends behind, at least ever time that I receive a Bafuss picture it lifts my spirit to think that someone was thinking about me and took the time to give me this little gift.

I've collected several pictures and I didn't really know what to do with it until I joined Steemit. I'm gonna start sharing this pictures with a little description or a short story of it so I will like to start with this one: