Dreary Friday

Today was a nice, lazy, rainy day.  I woke up, attempted to do yoga on the roof of the Costiar but it was raining so I went back inside.  It rained pretty much the whole day but unfortunatly, when it rains here there usually isn't any thunder or lightening. :/  I love crazy storms but only when I'm inside and nice and warm beneath blankets.  Today was supposed to be a work day for me to focus on writing some research projects...mah...so long for that.  This is what I did instead.  Blog reading, news reading, web surfing, and after dinner at 7:30, I sat in the dinning room for like 2 hours just hanging out.  FML.  Why can't I be productive today??! Also, check this out.  Beyonce and Jay-Z are in Cuba.  I learned this yesterday when one of my friends told me she was among a croup of hundreds of people at El Capitolio.  She thought that they were cheering "P-Once, P-Once" (one of the gwagwas or buses that churn through the streets like the buses in Pittsburgh).  Nope!  They were yelling "Beyonce"!  I actually don't really care for Beyonce all that much because I'm not the biggest fan of her music and I get the feeling that she's a bit conceited but hell, who am I to judge?  I'd be full of myself too if I were f-ing Beyonce.  Here's a link in case you don't believe me.  She looks amazing and I seriously WANT some box braids!  :D

http://blackgirllonghair.com/2013/04/beyonce-rocks-box-braids-red-lips-and-prints-in-cuba/



Here are some pics of more city scapes.  I walked through Centro Habana, a gritter neighborhood.  There were little kids playing "pelota" (baseball) all over and it was really neat peaking inside people's homes since so many people there keep their apartment doors open a crack.  I had a super yummy lunch with fried plantain.  Whenever I eat plantain or fried sweet plantain and rice and beans, it makes me think of my mommy's yummy Ghanian cooking.  I miss that oodles and that will be the first thing I eat when I get back to Jersey!  FOTO BOMB!  Lolz, I couldn't spell before but now Spanish+English=Spanglish is going to ruin my ability to spell forever!!! :D  

 The Gwawa.  I took the P-11 to get to Centro Habana from Vedado and it was 1 Cuban peso.  Soooo cheap.  Public transportation should always be this cheap.  It shouldn't cost like $25 to take a bus from NJ to NYC and like $2.50 for every bus ride in Pittsburgh.  What's up with that?! :O

This monument is so beautiful form the outside but it's actually really dirty and smells like urine and poop when you walk in...

One of the statues inside!