Day 43

I was at the Verizon internet center when Hadjii came in. He runs the tours place right next to the Verizon center, and he always asks nicely if I need any of his tours. He speaks English pretty well, and claims he is Pakistani. We ended up switching computers - he needed mine because it had speakers, and I needed his because I could put my CD in and send files from it. He needed speakers because he went right to YouTube, where he searched and found a famous Bollywood movie from 1965. He sat back, with the songs blared, and said “Can you imagine? Indian movies here in Las Galeras.” I understood.

The pharmacy is our source for forbidden treats – they have candy bars and ice creams at a higher price. We stop in in the evenings for ice cream, and I sneak in every now and then for a peanut and peanut butter granola bar. There is a 20-something man working there in the afternoons who plays western music, and much more modern than anything else we hear around here. Last week he had some techno playing, and today he was playing some Mexican rock group that had obviously listened to some American and Brit bands.

BOOK CURRENTLY READING: No book, but I am watching the second DVD of “The Departed,” which features a short piece on the Southie crime history, a feature called “Scorcese on Scorcese,” where Martin Scorcese talks about all his films, and a piece showing crime and crime movie influences on Scorcese.