We´ve Arrived!
Lorna did a huge and wonderful post yesterday, only to have the Cuban internet swallow it up and kill it. Yes, we are in Cuba, and dealing with the inadequacies of Cuban technology. But YES, we are in Cuba, and it is beautiful, and energentic, and warm, and that´s just the people.
We have not figured out how to put up our beautiful photos yet, but we will.
Our travels were way too long ... we left at 11 PM on Monday night from LA, and arrived in Charlotte, NC, around 6 AM. Then we waited there for our flight to Cancun. It was a fairly uneventful flight... until we arrived in Cancun. As the plane swooped in we saw much of the devastation of the hurricane from last month. Houses literally in rubbish piles, completely destroyed, and trees leaning over. Then as we approached the runway, we were probably 100 yards from the ground, suddenly the plane started going up, quickly! Everyone in the plan looked around, wondering what the heck was going on... we circled a bit, and the pilot got on the PA and told us on the ground they had had a power failure and we did not have last minute clearance to land. Clearly they are still struggling with the effect of the hurricane there.
Next, we experienced airport hell. We were about an hour and a half late, and as a result missed the right connection to Havana ... we had to wait 6 hours in that airport ... and didn´t arrive in Cuba until 11.30 that night. We arrived at our Casa Paticular around 1 AM.
We have spent the last 2 days trying to find people who are in the Cuban part of the film, and have failed as of yet. This evening we are finally attending our first film.
Lorna´s film will be shown on Monday the 12th at 2 PM at the Cine Charlot, a small cinema in the Charles Chaplain theatre.
Much more to tell, but no time right now to fill you in. Looking forward to a more leisurely internet writing session. We have lots of pictures that we´ll upload when we can. We also have made a hip hop connection and will be part of an interview with two female hip hop artists (raperas en espanol) who are very popular. The woman who is doing the interview is a lawyer who also interviews musicians and we happened to meet her the night we flew into Havana. More details to follow later.
We have not figured out how to put up our beautiful photos yet, but we will.
Our travels were way too long ... we left at 11 PM on Monday night from LA, and arrived in Charlotte, NC, around 6 AM. Then we waited there for our flight to Cancun. It was a fairly uneventful flight... until we arrived in Cancun. As the plane swooped in we saw much of the devastation of the hurricane from last month. Houses literally in rubbish piles, completely destroyed, and trees leaning over. Then as we approached the runway, we were probably 100 yards from the ground, suddenly the plane started going up, quickly! Everyone in the plan looked around, wondering what the heck was going on... we circled a bit, and the pilot got on the PA and told us on the ground they had had a power failure and we did not have last minute clearance to land. Clearly they are still struggling with the effect of the hurricane there.
Next, we experienced airport hell. We were about an hour and a half late, and as a result missed the right connection to Havana ... we had to wait 6 hours in that airport ... and didn´t arrive in Cuba until 11.30 that night. We arrived at our Casa Paticular around 1 AM.
We have spent the last 2 days trying to find people who are in the Cuban part of the film, and have failed as of yet. This evening we are finally attending our first film.
Lorna´s film will be shown on Monday the 12th at 2 PM at the Cine Charlot, a small cinema in the Charles Chaplain theatre.
Much more to tell, but no time right now to fill you in. Looking forward to a more leisurely internet writing session. We have lots of pictures that we´ll upload when we can. We also have made a hip hop connection and will be part of an interview with two female hip hop artists (raperas en espanol) who are very popular. The woman who is doing the interview is a lawyer who also interviews musicians and we happened to meet her the night we flew into Havana. More details to follow later.
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