miss universe in guantanamo bay

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This week, Guantanamo!!! It was an incredible experience.

We arrived in Gitmo on Friday and stared going around the town, everybody knew Crystle and I were coming so the first thing we did was attend a big lunch and then we visited one of the bars they have in the base. We talked about Gitmo and what is was like living there. The next days we had a wonderful time, this truly was a memorable trip! We hung out with the guys from the East Coast and they showed us the boat inside and out, how they work and what they do, we took a ride around the land and it was a loooot of fun!

We also met the Military dogs, and they did a very nice demonstration of their skills. All the guys from the Army were amazing with us.

We visited the Detainees camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how the recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books. It was very interesting.

We took a ride with the Marines around the land to see the division of Gitmo and Cuba while they were informed us with a little bit of history.

The water in Guantanamo Bay is soooo beautiful! It was unbelievable, we were able to enjoy it for at least an hour. We went to the glass beach, and realized the name of it comes from the little pieces of broken glass from hundred of years ago. It is pretty to see all the colors shining with the sun. That day we met a beautiful lady named Rebeca who does wonders with the glasses from the beach. She creates jewelry with it and of course I bought a necklace from her that will remind me off Guantanamo Bay :)

I didn't want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful.

I was back in NY on Wednesday and on Thursday I did some paper work at the office and went out for dinner. On Friday I flew to Miami for the weekend because I had a photo shoot for the magazine People en Espanol. So hopefully I might be a little lucky and have some time off to take the sun for a while :)

- from the horse's mouth, but found via nytimes

Comments

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

=what email from my mother reads like, except more interesting

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

wow, that's kind of... sad.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

the guys in school always said she was foxy! .....

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

LOL.

lindsey's mom has got it going on?

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

er, sorry, i meant in HER school. back in the day. but she still gets compliments of that sort... from, you know, handymen and dykey cashiers at the grocery store and manako (don't ask me)

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

ah, that makes more sense.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

i don't think i interacted enough with boys at my school to ever know what they thought. :/

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

anyway, she hates being thought of as a dumb blonde.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

who does, though?

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

it's just that that was why i mentioned her being attractive to some--that's how people treat her. but secretly she wants people to think she's smarter than my dad

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

I think she's as smart as your dad.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

i have no idea. certainly she can't express herself in writing as well. but i dunno what that says about intelligence. she has more practical skill in life, from cooking to fixing things. neither of them seem that smart to me, but what do i know.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

well... yeah. I certainly don't see her intelligence as inferior to your dad's, though.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

they're just so...different. it's hard for me to compare them. my dad is totally useless, but in a certain sense, his thoughts seem more complex. but how much of that is better education and/or more reading on his part, idk. well...i do feel like my dad has a very different sense of others just by being in the 'breadwinner' and 'management' positions, and perhaps by being older. although both my parents have a sort of warped impression of how others see them, my dad seems more likely to recognize that financial stability isn't the only thing of value, that being polite isn't always being nice, that other people have their own dreams and goals, that sometimes things are best left alone. idk.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

well, you're probably a better judge of your parents than I am. I definitely buy your assessments.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

anyway, whatever intelligence she may have seems to get wrapped up in useless and mundane details. plus...she is very childlike, which is weird. maybe that's why this post most reminded me of her, beyond the simple sentences and happy faces. the sort of naive, 'the world is there to please or annoy me' attitude, where you know your expenses are being taken care of by being pretty. idk.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

oh god, she text messaged me this morning at 6-something, and i was tired and didn't want to respond, and i forgot about it till just now. it said "R U up?" hmm... :/

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

random...

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

she was probably freaking out about something or another.