REPUBLICA

REPUBLICA  

I am with six other teachers who are really great women.  We have two 25 year olds, one is 31, then a principal who is 40, my friend Linda who is 50 and me.  This group likes to have a drink after dinner and not wanting to be left behind I always go with them.  I drink a lemon lime soda made by Fanta that you can’t get in the states.  Last night we went to a bar restaurant called Republica. We had drinks and brochettes – barbequed chicken on a stick.  It was an open air bar as most of them are. It was for the upper class locals and the ex-pats.  Nothing too special, but just something else to experience.  I guess the highlight of the evening was when the taxi driver backed up too far and landed the back tires in a ditch. We have to take two taxis everywhere we go because there are so many of us. The other driver stopped and came over to push us out. I hopped out fast because I knew that would lighten the load. So did the others girls. With a little burning rubber and a great deal of pushing the cab was out of the ditch and we were on our way again. These are experiences you just don’t have in America.