Cuba Weekend

I just got back from a weekend trip to Cuba. Cuba is only about 40 minutes away from Cayman but the differences between the two are mind blowing.
This weekend was absolutely heart breaking in a way..I was faced with so many different questions about what is right and what is wrong and I just wanted to share my experience in some way. I think everyone should try to get out and visit poor countries and see for themselves to really appreciate your life. I have never been so grateful for my freedom and for having democracy. We take so many things for granted and we forget and ignore how much there is still to do in the world...

So Cuba...this beautiful island with its beautiful friendly people who are captured in this horrible regime that won't give them any freedom...it's so strange. Just coming off the plane was crazy..there was a group of maybe 100-150 people just staring behind a big gate..staring at the rich tourists who have come to take a look at their lives..to peek at them..the tourists who have hopefully come to learn and teach others from their own world about the injustices..but worst case scenario..they have just come for the big business of prostitution. I don't know..It just seems like a bit of a slap in the face to come visit, when the cubans are not even allowed to travel outside of the country..it is also strange that we come in with our money and our exotic lives to look at their lives which they have no power to change. they are stuck in their poverty and will be punished fro trying to make something off themselves. Punished for hanging out withtourists, punished for speaking their mind. Words cannot express how much I feel that I have learnt iover the weekend just by talking ot people, dancing with people drinking with them and simply watching them and reading up on the politics and history of the country.


It was fun but heart breaking at the same time, becuase you wish you could do something to help them...