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What's happenin.
Yep, tis I. Back from a long two weeks in what could nearly feel like hell. I will write in no particular order what I did but I will write as much as my memory affords.
We get off a 5+2 hour plane flight and step out and I run into this wall of humidity. And I don't mind it that much but this I did. This humidity slapped on 20 degree farenheit (yes since there they calculate in celcius and something else. Celcius I am not that far off in calculating (but I am not that close either) but the other I never heard of. I would of figured kelvin but I am not that lucky) and it was just bad bad bad. Plus it just rained so all icky and stuff. Twas bad.
The home was big and nice. Too bad I hardly got to fully enjoy it. I am proud to say though that I left that island with only two mosquito bites as compared to everyone else (Mom, Dad, Bro, Krystal, and my bro's friend Daniel) whom got a pretty dozen at least. I am cool.
I found out DeMolay does exist down there but under the name of Sons of Acacia. That is what Angel told me. Wish I coulda visited them but I couldn't since we have no way of contacting them.
Well I saw my grandma's grave site. Angel and Dad both cried. I even saw grandpa's site too.
Things that we did:
-We went to the 2 forts in San Juan (El Morro and Santiago I believe)
-Went to The Dry Forest of Guanica (supposedly the dryest forest in the world)
-The Cross and the mansion of Castillo in Ponce
-Visited the bacardi brewing factory (don't smell all the rum, some of em can make ya feel hella boo boo)
-Saw the Arecibo Observatory (the largest satelite on the world)
-Went to Tibes, a native life ground with a ginormous area of still undiscovered lands. (It is at least 10 acres of known and 29 of land to be investigated)
-Went to the Mall and Plaza in Ponce
-Went to a Spanish style home (twas totally Spanish of ye ole time)
-Saw lots of fountains in San Juan
-Met my relatives: Aunt Isaida, Cousin Cheo and his kid, another cousin and her 3 kids
-Went to the beach in Ponce and in Guanica (the one in Ponce will be having a cruise ship going there this week)
Things that I did:
-Got 7 shirts and a pair of pants at hot topics
-Got lots of Magic cards for cheap (I saved money, wow)
-Got 2 jerseys and 3 hats sporting Puerto Rico in some way
-Took lots of pictures
-Was ignored often
-Read 2 and a half books
-Continued studying IO
-Dominated in domino's
-Learned and dominated in Brisca (a card game of a sort similar to your standard deck of cards but a bit smaller)
That was the general gist of things. As I said, I took lots of pictures but most are stored on Angel's lap top so I'll have those this weekend. I'll see what I have here later tomorrow or the day after.
Common facts and other nonsense:
-Always add a minimum 15 degree farenheit to the weather
-Rain can be smelt coming, so don't stay outside
-Bugs is common, so are lizards. Make your friends wisely (I choose the lizards, they saved me)
-Just cuz 2/3 of the roads doesn't have lines doesn't mean more than one lane doesn't exist there.
-Go ahead and run a red light. Cops won't care til the last week before the end of the month
-Go ahead and speed. Cops won't care unless you are in the city
-Don't visit a foreign country when truckers go on strike therefore making gas stations run out, food not reach places, increase water costs, and threaten to eliminate the electricity
-You can tell a Puerto Rican and non-Puerto Rican by the simple question of "Does she have a medium to a large a**?" If yes than you probably either found a Puerto Rican or a healthy person (chances are a Puerto Rican)
-DDR exists everywhere so don't be shocked to see Puerto Ricans at the mall doing such
-Magic and Yugi exists everywhere so again, do the latter
-Spanish is key, if you give way that you are not a decent to a full hispanic/spanish speaker...you are ********.
-You'll never get away from the bugs, so don't run or you'll run into another
-Walls are cement, so don't punch em, you won't even dent them and that will be a waste of bone
-Don't drive crazy unless you are in a big vehicle, other wise give room for the bigger vehicle that'll make you pay dearly
-There is no slow drivers go to the right lane. There is no fast lane either. The fast lane is whatever one you can drive fastest in.
-Rum is it. So bring/buy lots of coke. (I suggest Don Q over Bacardi, trust my dad and bro)
Well this vacation really dented our family. Fights, arguments, and what not. Fortunately I was no where near any of it but to my mom whom her and I fix everything so awesome. Fights existed all else though. Oh I lied, I forgot my bro and I weren't getting along really since he doesn't get along with krystal. But like his friend Daniel, I am a good actor and know how to smile. I hope he saw that I was faking it though. I made sure he did. So I did a lot of reading too. I finished Dune and Dune Messiah. Now I am reading Children of Dune. I am a little over half done.
Well I am out...gotta sleep, and continue catching up to speed. Peace out holmes.
 Dirteh Old Man · Tue Aug 02, 2005 @ 08:13am · 2 Comments |
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