All quieted in the city of Habana today when a tropical rainstorm hit the city for more than three hours booming and blasting over the entire landscape. Some of the students were lodged in the Presidente hotel our usual haunting ground for internet where apparently taxi cabs were literally bobbing up and down in the […]

BLOG POST 8: LAWRENCE KIRK FASHION FEVER   The Teatro Mellia is an incredible theater resting on Linea and B one of the main streets running through the neighborhood of Vedado in Habana. I was lucky enough to receive an invitation from a dear friend who is a designer at the national art institute El […]

Lawrence Kirk BLOG POST 7:   LIFE IN MUSIC     Last night I was fortunate enough to happen upon an event that only cost the U.S. equivalent of 30 cents. This “event” concert was of the best quality I have ever witnessed in my entire experience as a frequent concertgoer. The venue was intimate […]

BLOG POST 6: LARRY   TRAVELING CUBA:   Traveling inter provincially in Cuba is not as hectic a process as one might think if that person has a solid source of dinero. We have been moved around the country by vans, busses, airplanes, jeeps, and open-air trucks. It always seems that for a group such […]

Last night as a group we experienced a family oriented event. For the birthday of our friend Kate we traversed all the way to a neighborhood called La Lisa to have a dinner with her friend Damian’s parents. The experience was absolutely lovely. The house was filled with an aroma of delicious authentic Cuban food […]