gangsta radio

Hope this video works. Its from the taxi ride up to La prusia after we were at the market. The volunteer with crazy hair is Mitch from Boston who is here for a year.

This past week has been pretty quiet in the construction, waiting for pipes to arrive for water and electicity. A new house should be started this week hopefully. Free time is usually spent either reading, playing cards or Settlers of Catan [awesome nerdy game, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Settlers_of_Catan], although I did have to cook yesterday. There are 20 people now so it took a couple of trips to the market to get all the food, and I only got charged double for some cabbage so did ok there. The sellers tend to quote ok prices in the market even if you are a gringo. It´s 8 cords for a dozen banannas, so theres 20.9 cords to the dollar . . . i think its 40 cents for a dozen . . not sure what the pound is at 1.5? so 27p for a dozen banannas. . . 2p per bananna, thats cheap! I made burgers followed by smoothies, just because I knew the Americans wanted it but didnt want to make it due to stereotyping slagging from Spanish. There is the supermarket Pali (Walmart company) but I just got a bag of meat there because the market meat is more . . flavoursome?

In other news one of the volunteers is trying to start radio in the barrio, for public announcements (and constant reggaeton no doubt) . . . Check out
tocarte toa (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RKfnvLPdLM)

daddy yankee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHgnebZ_jYo)

or oh dear god the bachata king Frank Reyes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0CTuzPQiWY)

. . . for the popular music here.

In nature watch there are lots of birds, no idea what they are, sorry! I think the snake was a banded brown snake but not sure.

hasta pronto