sea and this island...

I love this country more and more every day. It really teaches you that you can not be sure in anything and rely on anything but yourself. Also i have learned here that you don't need a lot to be happy.

You don't need a huge house and 5 cars to be happy. You don't need a maid and fua gra every morning. You don't need to go to expensive resorts and have a Cartier jewelry.

The simple things make you feel good. Seing  how the city is waking up and people are starting to go to work, and you know that u have a full day off. Dog, running to you with a happy crazy face at 6 a.m. and trying to play. 5 minutes on the seaside, when there is a lightning flashing and you hear sounds of approaching thunder and can't define where the sea ends and the sky starts. People, desperately devoted to god singing on the street using loud speaker. Hug of a neighbour and a handful of limoncillo right from the tree.

The good start of the day. I love living like that. And the one simple rule i would wish everybody could keep in mind is never to stop and never get devastated. The next day may bring smth good, or something that you didnt expect to happen. Still, it is all part of the game ;)

call center vs prostitution

I think you can actually compare work in the call center with prostitution.
You sell yourself for hours, some of the customers got satisfied, some of them are a bit agressive, some don't know what they really want.
I don't know in which of this job you are actually happier - i just tried one of them :)

P.S. and Zona Colonial keeps surprising me every day. the guy on the hourse with a carrige just gave me a ride yesterday.

Zona Colonial / St Petersburg

I feel sometimes that Zona Colonial was just taken from St Petersburg and put in Dominican Republic. I do feel like home here and I think i know why:

1. The buildings. Some of the buildings in Zona Colonial are 5-floor and they have exactly the same style as those in St Peterrsburg

2. Artists. If you walk around in St Petersburg, especially in the center you would meet bunch of people doing arts of different types, and f course the city itself - it is not called cultural capital for nothing. theater, music, painings, art lovers are hapy in St Pete. Aparently Zona Colonial is the same. Every day I meet a new artist and right now i have a neighbour who is an amazing person with a big dream and he is doing all the possible  arts in the world

3. River and a sea. no comments

4. Weird people. That is definetely important. It is too boring when it's normal.
Well, like my dad said - in St Petersburg you can even put a clothespin to your hair and it would be considered fashionable. In Zona and in this country in general people are not that liberal about the style, but the amount of weird people is kind of equal. You can see them walking along the streets talking to themselves, or just waving you in the park every time you pass by, or in the small local cafeterias, starting to talk to you out of the blue. Friends say that i have a special talent to meet weird people, don't know if it is true or it's just too many of them here.



P.S. and damn, apparently music is a pure mathematics