The people here are just full of smiles. the mixture is not Carribean like other islands, rather a blend of Spanish, indiginous, African, and lots more for spice. I am reading James Mitchners-"Carribbean". It is interesting to be in places that I have just read about. The sugar cane/rum business and all the horrible mess around it and then tour a mansion that was home of one of the sugar cane/rum families. So much bloodshed in these islands from the Europeans and more.
I have had a cold since i got here and only wanted to fly back, but had no energy to do so. Now have been to the Dr. and got some drugs and more rest. Now the sun has gone, now that I have a lovely pool in the hotel in Ponce, and the thunderstorms have moved in. they are really something, like they are right over my head and so loud. I went to a Beethhoven concert last night where all the beautiful people were including me. The hotel owner told me I looked very elegant in my black with my white skin and freckles. I put that one in my book on compliments. No one ever told me when I was young and trying to get rid of the freckles that they would be attractive to some.
I saw that the biggest Finnish colony outside of finland is in Florida. Imagine that, what a contrast. Usually, people gravitate to similar country. Like that of northern Minnesota, where my father lived was lots of finns, called, Menagha. I think it means butterfly.
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