Hi, Guest
04-07-2009, 04:31 AM
Limitations are a good way of putting it.
Jen took school supplies with us to Cuba. Pencils, pens, rulers, chalk, erasers, colouring books, notepads, markers etc.... We handed them out as tips at the bar. Many of the staff at the resort worked 12-hour shifts with 2 days off a week. Many of them with children back at the home front. However, the money they made (which was amazing by most standards) went into clothes and food. Most of the staff couldn't afford learning materials.
One bartender I made good friends with (he worked the day shift and I would go down and get hammered in the afternoon while the wife was napping) brought in some pictures of his family to brag to me. What a beautiful family. A modest house with a 56 Chev in the driveway with blue tints.:lol: he was the proudest guy I've ever met.
I had some old pictures of the Focus and my home on the digital camera...he almost fell over when I showed him the pictures. He was fascinated by the curbs in the pictures on my street. He said the "garden" in front of my house (the grass) was like nothing he's ever seen. I think they would lose their mind if they came here and saw how we live. I wanted to take this guy and his family home with us.
He said they get in toruble from the boss (who walked around like Tony Soprano) if he got caught talking politics with the tourists. So sad.
On the brightest note though...... Our room in Cuba got the BBC... so you know what that means???? TOP GEAR!
Jen took school supplies with us to Cuba. Pencils, pens, rulers, chalk, erasers, colouring books, notepads, markers etc.... We handed them out as tips at the bar. Many of the staff at the resort worked 12-hour shifts with 2 days off a week. Many of them with children back at the home front. However, the money they made (which was amazing by most standards) went into clothes and food. Most of the staff couldn't afford learning materials.
One bartender I made good friends with (he worked the day shift and I would go down and get hammered in the afternoon while the wife was napping) brought in some pictures of his family to brag to me. What a beautiful family. A modest house with a 56 Chev in the driveway with blue tints.:lol: he was the proudest guy I've ever met.
I had some old pictures of the Focus and my home on the digital camera...he almost fell over when I showed him the pictures. He was fascinated by the curbs in the pictures on my street. He said the "garden" in front of my house (the grass) was like nothing he's ever seen. I think they would lose their mind if they came here and saw how we live. I wanted to take this guy and his family home with us.
He said they get in toruble from the boss (who walked around like Tony Soprano) if he got caught talking politics with the tourists. So sad.
On the brightest note though...... Our room in Cuba got the BBC... so you know what that means???? TOP GEAR!