jibacoa

i'm totally multitasking right now. i'm uploading photos onto facebook using two different tabs and writing a blog entry at the same time.

ok, let me break it down for you. i'm gonna tell you what we did each day, because i feel that's the easiest way of doing it. (i was going to do this in one long entry, but it was getting CRAZY long so instead, i'll post one or two per day for the next while).

day one:
andrew and brendan drove us up to toronto. since it was a sunday morning shannon suggested we have church in the car. it was really fun. we actually did an entire hour: music, awkward sunday, responsive prayer, prayer requests, a 'sermon', communion, a benediction. we called it car church and our slogan was "we're going places". the guys hung out with us at the airport for a while, then left when we went thru security. the flight down went smoothly, although we didn't like the in-flight film and the guys in front of us were somewhat unpleasant. they were a group young guys, clearly going to cuba on their reading week. at one point i turned to shan and asked "are those guys the same age as brendan?" and she said "i was just wondering that too. i don't know". we concluded they were younger than b, but still it was alarming to see guys who are technically the same age as b but are drastically younger than him in every other way. anyways, we arrived and very easily found out bus. the ride thru matanzas to the resort was an hour long and it was pitch black outside so we saw nothing. i told you how when we got checked into our room we sat on the floor eating the food we found in the fridge. it was fun. it was then that i fell in love with pineapple. it was a very pale beige colour so i didn't know what it was, and was surprised because in the past i haven't liked pineapple. we went for a stroll around the resort in the dark, it was a nice night and we could hear the sound music from the disco in the distance.

day two:
it rained. it thunderstormed actually. there wasn't much to do and we didn't have a deck of cards. we drank rum and wandered in the rain. we did some emailing, sat by the pool – i even got in once, then quickly got out again. that evening the weather cleared and there was a beautiful sunset. we walked the beach and had a grand ole time. it was that day that we first noticed heather and madeline. we're not sure what their names actually are, but we assigned them names that we thought were appropriate. they were these two friends in their late 50s, they were grumpy and irritable and kind of lacked social graces. it seemed as though after monday they had soe sort of fight because they didn't speak for 4 days. it made us sad whenever we saw them separately, and couldn't imagine any dispute that would make us not be friends in cuba.

you shall go forth again,
and skip around like calves
coming from the stalls at last.