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!!!!!!!!!:)