 |
Sep 4, 2006 - 12:55 PM |
|
 |
Straight fucking Shenmue. |
|
|
I was running errands yesterday and as I looked around shop to shop I realized this town kinda looks like the one in the Japanese town of Shenmue. I had like ten things to find and had to go to various places to find ´em. Each shopowner would tell me where I might be able to find the rest of the stuff I needed and gave me wacky Guatemalan directions. So Í´m poking around this place like a tourist goon. getting funny looks as usual. I even had to get a lightbulb... Silly ass imagination.
One last country report on the things I´ve most noticed about Guatemala.
A popular mark brand for baked goods here is BIMBO. =O
When you greet females here it´s with a hug and a kiss on the cheek. It´s pretty cool...
No one walks on the sidewalks. Don´t even know why they made them. I just about always have them to myself.
You can haggle over prices on ANYTHING here. Hell, I got my gym cost down from 100Q a month to 70Q. In all honesty I do it more for fun than necessity.
Expensive U.S. brands here are dirt cheap in comparison. I like Diesel, but a fucking pair of Diesel pants in the states cost anywhere around two hundred fucking dollars. You can find them for thirty to fifty here. Original... Though possibly stolen.
A Mayan woman here will clean your house ALL DAY for 25Q... Between three and four dollars. Pretty fucking depressing.
In town, especially at night, there are tons and tons of dogs roaming the streets. It strongly reminds me of Hyrule at night in Ocarina of Time.
People, my family too, complain about how hot and cold it gets here. After living at the foot of a mountain at prison and in Las Vegas, this is pretty comical. The weather here is beautiful. They call it the land of the eternal springtime.
Man, at certain times of the day the water comes out of tap slightly, sometimes very, brown. This pretty much sucks ass.
Places that generate money, even fucking McDonalds, tend to have armed guards standing outside in case of trouble. These fuckers have either shotguns, rifles, and sometimes uzis. No fucking lie.
It is absolutely custom for everyone here to, at one time or another, drive around wasted. It doesn´t even seem to be guarded against by the authorities.
All for now. I miss the States, my kids, Dala, my whole life.
|
|
|
|
|
