Monday was pretty standard, and Tuesday I went diving with Coco. Katie was busy so we went alone and were under for about an hour, which is pretty long. Wednesday was not spectacular. At some point in the week, Veronika and I made a list of things we want to do before we leave Cuba. Surprisingly to me, the list is not very long. If I were to spend more time here, I would want to be more integrated into real Cuban life, and I would also like to travel around the island more. Many of the things on our list are activities to do downtown, some are larger than others. On thrusday Veronika and I went downtown to explore. We waited in line at Coppelias (the ice cream place) for half and hour before we were warned that they were going to close (it was likely they would close before we even got in, the line wasn’t moving at all). Downtown was a bust. We couldn’t find anywhere to go that wasn’t swarming with tourists and expensive. We walked home realizing that when we go out exploring like that, we need a backup plan for our backup plan. On Friday we went to a meeting at the Center for Studies of the Americas to learn about the recent developments in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela. The lecturers Spanish was extremely hard to understand because no matter how slowly he spoke, each word kind of blended in with the next.
On Saturday Veronika, Austin (a guy from Alabama) and I went downtown for the concert for the country (concierto para la patria). Compared to the Calle 13 concert, there were very few people there. The music was more traditional and it was generally an older croud. It was really pleasant though, we sat on the malecon (check!- off my list) and listened as the sea breeze cooled us and splattered us with a seasoning of salt. Downtown one always sees ladies carrying cones of paper filled with peanuts. None of us were really in the mood, but to buy ‘Maní’ was on our list, so we purchased them (for five cents) and tried this Cuban classic (check).
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