Fri, 6 Jun 2003 10:43:28 -0700 (PDT)
The cuban round-up

Well, I am going travelling for about 3 or 4 days starting tomorrow, so this will likely be my last email update in a while.

Not much new has happened here ...

The girl who watched the live chickens get their heads ripped off had chicken for dinner the evening of the ceremony.

Some cuban guy tried following a group of us last night to get us to come to his ¨party¨ that was going to be ¨really good¨ ... He wouldn´t go away until finally I flipped out on him. I bascally put my fist in his chest, and told him that it was the last time that I was going to tell him that we weren´t going to go to his stupid party .. after that he backed down and turned around and walked home. They can get into serious problems with the police for bothering the tourists.

The other day, I was going to my usual cheap place to get dinner, but it was closed because it was wednesday, but there was a 50 year old guy sitting on his porch near the restaurant, and we started talking. After a few minutes, he invited me to eat, and he made me spaghetti (which he cooked specifically for me, and for which I paid him one dollar). It was interesting, I sat there and talked with him for about half an hour. He was trained as a physicist, worked as an economist (I don´t know what that means in a country as fucked up as cuba), and appeared to be currently un-employed.

Last night I went to a bar/restaurant, and the only things they would consider serving us was lobster or shrimp (the most expensive things on the menu) ... it was too late for them to bother to cook anyting else ... I didn´t eat.

Tomorrow I am going to a town called Trinidad. It is supposed to be nice, but I don´t think there is a lot to do there, just a nice place to see. After that I am going to a town called Vinales .. .there is supposed to be really cool caves ther, it is also supposed to be good for horseback riding.