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Category: Flickr, Videoclips
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Dad, if a two-year old can use a computer, you can, too.
Via kewlchops, aka George Oates, of Flickr.
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Archive for February 17th, 2007
17
Feb
2007
You Didn’t Think I Was Finished Posting About Cuba, Did You?
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Category: Cuba, Photography, Raconteurism
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I seriously don’t know if I will ever have enough time to tell all my Cuba stories online, because there are just that many. You’d think I’d taken a six-month sabbatical there, I’ve gone on and on and on about it so much. And no, I’m not getting paid by the country’s tourism commission — the place captured my imagination and fascination in a way that doesn’t let go easily.
I wanted to come home from work and do a whole lot of nothing, where “nothing” means I’ll feed myself then spend most of the evening Photoshopping over a cup of tea. (I prefer Photoshopping to retail shopping any day. Shopping isn’t relaxing at all!)
Pentax K-1000
Centro Habana
View larger for detail.
I was taking pictures on the street where this little lady was sweeping in front of her house. I asked permission to take her photo, and she stopped what she was doing and motioned for me to come inside!
She sat me down at her kitchen table and fed me Cuban-style custard with marmalade (I eat practically anything, including marmalade, but this stuff is like nothing edible on earth and I tried to tell her I was like a borderline diabetic or something to that effect, though it probably got lost in translation and came out like "I like to roll in sugar"), and yogurt. I quite like Cuban yogurt, so I ate more of that to counter some of the marmalade that made its way to my plate.
I told her I would mail her the photos I took of her and in her house, and she gave me her address.
These Cubans are some of the most hospitable people I’ve ever met. Every day it would blow me away how friendly and trusting they were.
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