¡No Trabajar Aquí!

So I was walking around Seville and I noticed that in some respects it looks like an episode of South Park. There were “Peruvian Flute Bands” or at least that is what I am calling them, being that it is my blog and the ramblings are from my head. They are on almost every other corner where they can fit. In the area where the businesses are, by the metro station (the gypsies are there as well), by the restaurants… just everywhere. Here is a clip of the video if you have no idea what I am talking about. It is also where the name of this blog came from.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/189014/no-trabajar-aqui

They are there all day from what I can tell. At first I thought that they were only there after the 2pm siesta but since I have been up in Seville at different times over the last couple of weeks I have found them at all hours, well when the working people are out. They seem to disappear about 10 -10:30 at night. From my understanding they are all gypsies so they don’t have any sort of job so they make their living off of the tips they collect. I can see them bring in a decent amount of money and actually making a living being that the average income per month per working adult here in Spain is 1,000 Euros or about $1,300 depending on the exchange rate. It is amazing that they can live off of that much comparable to the USA where that income would put you well below the poverty line even in areas where the income is low to begin with.

Well I am going to get going. I have to go the store to get steaks for dinner at the firehouse tonight.

Stay Frost
-C

I was updating my Facebook info and this is the end result in the 10 minutes of self reflection that it took for me to complete the update. Dang this is a long title!

Here is a synopsis of me that I think would accutatly reflect me at this point in my life. I was updating my facebook profile and this is the end result in the "info" section. So without much further adu.......

I’m from Massachusetts. We do have an accent. We’re from New England. I currently am in the working to travel phase in my life. This phase has moved me from my "home base" of Cape Cod where I grew up to New Orleans, LA after Hurricane Katrina for 9 months, to Peoria, Illinois for 6 months, to Antarctica for a year which included 7 weeks down at the geographical and physical South Pole. It has also brought me to the Seville province in Spain although I do hardly speak spanish. While here I plan on seeing Europe in 3 day intervals so I figure 1 major city every 3-4 weeks and with short excursions around Spain in the inbetween times.

I have been called blunt, abrasive and crude but I like to believe that those are good qualities since I am always being honest and to me that is the best quality someone can have. By my nature I am loyal and with my choice of profession, a firefighter, I believe I am even more loyal than what could normally be asked of average people.

I am inspired by the people who have gone to the places that no one thought was possible. By taking a chance and doing the things that other people have dreamed of, by casting off the lines of restrictions that keep adventurous people planted. Eccentric people have always keep the world advancing by going where only they knew they could, by doing what was called absurd and by following their dreams. I know that I can not live by this completely but I am choosing to not settle for the easy road and take the one less traveled and hopefully I will make it to the end, safe, sound and sane.

241fire.blogspot.com Yea, it is my blog. I started it in Antarctica and then have continued it onto my trips in Florida and now Spain.

Stay Frosty
-C