Casual Comments

9/12/2011

My poor fan has been chugging and churning the toxic airborne tar of San Juan for two weeks and as a result has blackened the fan blades. I removed the outer shell and wiped it down with a damp rag which removed much of the gummy, glopulent, goo as seen here in this photo. (It doesn't do it justice.)

My proceeding thought was “Wow, I breath this stuff”. Puertoricans do not seem to have an understanding of environmental protection. San Juan has a overrunning litter problem. It is an interesting cultural phenomenon that an entire group of people turn a blind eye to the piles of trash lining the streets. Bam! Boom! ... go the sounds of puertorican cars backfiring. Their poorly maintained cars pollute the city with a fine coat of atomized cancer. And mother nature works her destructiveness at the rate of one drop of rain at time, one gust of wind, one salty spray of sea against exposed metal as her power slowly corrodes buildings and streets. The few city trees jockey for position underground in an epic battle of roots versus pipes. Building facades that were once lovely architectual artwork are now crumbled, chipped away by time, air and water. Oh the city that is San Juan.

On a lighter note, I went to the beach again. This time I rode up to Condado beach near Old San Juan. They were nice and I visited a small outpost from colonial times. It's fascinating to be near something that was built 500 years ago.

I found an interesting mosaic piece and church.

The other night the sunset mixed with the rain clouds and produced this erie purple haze. Check out the pic.

Well, classes are still going good. Differential equations is very challenging, but I have an eagerness to learn. My medievil literature class (which I had no idea it was going to be a 'medievil' literature class, just picture Shakespeare in Spanish) is frustrating because my teacher talks with the speed of a person whose had 5 extra tall cups of the most caffenated coffee. Plus she speaks 'puertorican' spanish, which is a lazy version of spanish where the speaker swallows lots of consonants. “Cada dia” becomes “cadia”. Or “Estoy buscando la lapiz” becomes “Etoy bucando la lapi”. It's frustrating!!!!