"Mosquito Coast"

I am living in Mosquito Coast, it is unbelievable the amount of mosquitoes that are emerging from nowhere here. Not to mention that there is never any power so, you know, it's a lot of fun here. I wonder what happens in places where the power never goes out or in places where you can actually trust the public transportation or where youcan find what to do with your time when you have no work or responsibilities (I'm kidding of course, I come from a place like that). I swear, the person who invented work must have been from here, because there was nothing else to do and he or she, started to die of boredom, so they invented something that would keep you busy and that you could make money with. I know what i would have invented, a way to get out of here!!!! Oh yeah, because on top of living in an island it is almost impossible to purchase a ticket out of here, unless you are rich or going to puerto rico. Neither one of those is my case, so here I am. Waiting for a chance to come my way, so i can leave this island once and for all. I mean, don't get me wrong, I've had my share of fun here, but because it is a small country with very few people, well... let me put it this way, I've played all my cards and now the game is stuck, all the other players have passed their chance to play and have gotten out of the game. They saw what i couldn't see, it was a hopeless game and it wasn't going to end. So i could pick up the cards, shuffle them again and start playing, only nobody else wants to play because they think that the same thing is going to happen and because there is nobody to play with from somewhere else, i'm stuck with a deck of cards and no one to play with. Get the metaphor?

summer "fun"?

Well, summer is here and I have been looking forward to some down time for a while now. I quit my, very stressful old job, managed to secure myself a new job, got some tutoring classes set for july and my main plan for this summer is to take it easy, relax, sit back and enjoy. The question is, there is nothing for me to take easy, since most of the reasons for my stress came from my job and i no longer work there, therefore I am very relaxed, I have been sitting back for the last ten days and I don't know what to enjoy because I live in the DR, which means that if I mean to enjoy myself I have to spend money. The people here have yet to discover the wonders of free concerts and fairs and flea markets. Although they might argue that they do have free concerts, with the latest bachata singers of the moments, raving wild parties where people go to get drunk generally speaking, they also have fairs once a year or almost unknown to anybody since they forgot to inform the consumers and still, what's the point in going when the prices of these alleged "handmade" products are skyhigh, and let us not forget the infamous flea market, which I believe was actually meant literally in this beautiful caribbean paradise. Let me describe a flea market,so you can get a better idea of what I mean, upon avoiding the pressing smell of rotting trash all around you and actually thinking that maybe you have gone crazy because everybody else seems to be ok, you will enter the "land of mud" and hear the wonderful praises of about a dozen men and yes, even some precocious teens and really be amazed at the fact that your ass could have so many names. After this ego boost to your figure, you proceed to the stands, that is if you can find any, most of the "stands" are just flat out, floor spaces where they throw a piece of plastic and just throw heaps of clothes and shoes and other stuff that you really wonder, where in God's name have they found these things and what the hell is one supposed to do with them? Then you find something you like, and of course try to buy, but if you are white, no matter how good you speak spanish they will try to cheat you out of your money, because, unbelievably enough, even though this country is full of white people, they still think that if you are white, you must be rich and foreign.
So I guess those activities are out of the picture, I could go for a walk, but I have two problems right now, we are in summer, which means it's burning hot out, I'm not kidding, it's not only that it is hot temperature-wise, but the sun burns like crazy, the other little set back is that beacuse i live in a tropical island it's sunny one minute and pouring down rain the next, which is the case right now. So I guess that leaves me with stay at home and read.
I'm actually having fun reading, A friend of mine gave me this book called "I Like it Like That", it's by a british writer. Lately I find that british books are more fun, maybe because they write how they speak and it's quite interesting, at least to me. The reason I find this story so much fun is that the main character is this girl who reminds me a lot of me, the only difference is that she has two men in her life and I have none, but she is very much like me in her personality, well anyway the book is fun and that is all the "fun" I'm having and it's not even july!!!! I guess I'm going to have to start using my imagination and think of ways to have fun. SUGGESTIONS ARE MORE THAN WELCOMED!!!!!!!!!:)

it's over!!!!

It's unbelievable, but it's over!!! I'm out of that job!!!! I felt very bad about leaving because i had been there for nine years and worked my b.. off at that school. So.. the last thing i expected from the woman who hired me and shared ups and downs with me through nine years, was the last comment she made to me as i was leaving. She actually said to me: "Choose your friends better" I am still trying to understand what the heck did she mean by that!!! Those were her last words to me, I was so mad!!!! Well anyway, that is over, thank God!!!!Now moving on, I guess I am getting back at her because I had a job interview at the competion today (ha!!!) Talk again soon... bye.

I can say it is kind of strange, sometimes i feel kinda funny about how dettached I have become. Sometimes I just wish I was a little more sensitive or open to those around me, and the situations that go on, but i am not. Not at all. I could care less about most of the things that happen around me, for the most part, it's not like I don't feel for anything ever! But I wish I was a bit more... well... nice. Anyway, I just finished working at the place where I was for nine years!!! Now I have a very doubtful destiny, and somehow... I am not worried!!! Maybe it's the crazy and mentally unstable boss I have, I don't know!

Anyway, gotta go now and sleep!