Lisa goes South

well, well. i just realized that's it's been almost a month since there's been any new word of me to my faithful blog readers. probably because my life has been roughly the same for the past month. i work still, but more as a day waitress than a cocktail waitress. i like that better. drunks are just too tiresome, especially when they know there's a possibility that they can dance with you. there are afterall salsa lessons at my restaurant, tuesdays and fridays. it gets old telling the same drunk, or a different drunk, no, no i don't want to dance with you. sorry, i have to work. i don't know how to dance salsa. sorry, no i have to do my job. no, it's not because i don't want to dance with you (blatant lie), i really just have to work. no, i'm too tired, maybe next time....and then some rude rude borracho grabbed my ass a few weeks ago and that really got me angry. so i prefer the days. 7a to 3p. better tips and i can read the paper too. but i'm rearing and ready to leave san pedro la laguna. it's time has come...and gone. i'm bored and there's too many people i know here. and what's worse, they know some things about me. i'm so ready to leave that i almost flew the coop, without my brain last friday. i was this close to relocating myself to a caribbean isle, off the honduran coast, for a scuba diving certification and (gasp of excitement) more waitressing on selfsame caribbean isle (roatan is the name for you geography buffs). my good good ladyfriend just headed off that way and i was that close to going with her until i realized that i may just make a long, long (2 days) journey through the entire length of a country i have to see, a country i want to see, only to locate myself on a very expensive caribbean isle, where i may or may not find a job, with only a month left before hurricane season begins. hmm, doesn't sound so good when you look at it that way. on top of that then i'd be on the opposite side of the central american isthmus from el salvador, which was where i had planned on going after guatemala. so i calmed myself down and reasserted the same old plan: on the 22nd of this month i head to san salvador, the capital of el salvador (less than a day's journey by bus) to hang out with jason's sweetie, alejandra. and maybe i'll even get to teach basic computer skills on a coffee collective in the el salvadoran countryside too. finally, some work i can feel good about doing! maybe maybe. but what i'm really looking forward to in el salvador, besides the change of scenery, is the food. papusas, you hear that kristen? when i sink my teeth into that first authentic el salvadoran papusa, i will think of you my darling. and after el salvador, who knows. i do know that the caribbean is in my future, but maybe the caribbean isles of nicaragua, and in february. i'm still thinking about returning to northern guatemala after el salvador, but everything is so so open. maybe i'll just keep heading south...my friend marielle is going all the way to brazil. she's gotten me thinking more and more about brazil too. so, braaaziil.....well there's a lot of space between guatemala and brazil. hate to leave you with a cliff hanger like that, but got to keep ya'll interested. love you much, i'm doing fine, learning all the time and still alive. le chaim!