Sweating with a stingy rash isn't much fun so I decided to tag along with Scott this morning on his usual jog - only we walked...First we pass the night worker downstairs who haven't left yet - Scott leaves him a banana. Joel wasn't out with his stand so didn't see him. His girl friend(?)- he is married with three children -was at her stand by the guagua's this morning. Then we got to Paublo who has to stay 24 hours a day at the school he guards because they are out for vacation. Scott says they have some kind of quarters for him to rest in. I had met Paublo who is a very friendly guy and really wanted to be a Mormon until he realized that we don't drink alcoholic beverages. He's been drunk a few times when Scott and the missionaries have met there with him. Then there was Yamasa (Pascual) who is 80 years old with a 50 year old wife and a handicapped son. He is a little man with eyes that look like they have seen much of the world. The missionaries are teaching him. Scott always takes him a banana in the morning. I just call Scott the banana man since he supplies half of the neighborhood outside and inside with bananas and pineapple every morning. Of course by then he had given away all of his bananas and had to go buy more from his banana lady who I had never seen up close but he had told me much about. Notice the blobs on the lobes of her ears. We can't decide if she somehow did that purposely or if she was born that way. She's a very nice lady keeps and Scott's banana supply going
.Joel's friend and her roadside stand
Paublo at his school
Yamasa at the building he has worked at for 32 years
The banana lady
So all in all it was a fun walk for me seeing the people Scott talks about all of the time.
I worked on a report for our meeting with President Anderson tomorrow and a history of the music since we have been here - or for 2012. Should be interesting!
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