Travel Journal #4: Lots of Ideas Going downs the Toilet

                                                                 
Wednesday

For some reason I am starting to think that the saying Al que madruga Dios le ayuda is not the best believe. It was probably an old saying that parent hundreds of years ago told their sons that for them to wake up early to help them work in the harvest. Today it is used for parents to get their kids to wake up early for them to go to school. The thing is that nowadays, it’s useless. I think that someone needs to invent a machine that when a pre-choosen time comes it will throw a buket of water to the sleepy teenagers. It will be hilarious to see how they react. The only problem with my idea is that it will wet their beds everyday and it is very hard to dry them and it also requires a lot of strength. Well another good idea goes down the toilet. Flush!

            I was at opening hour in Multy Plaza waiting for the doors of the mall to open. Today the scouts were having a Christmas party. I will not see them in about a month because I got suspended from the scouts. Good for me I will finally have Saturday free for doing whatever I want. Well for the party the majority (Paniza family) chose to go ice skating in the ice skating park there is in Multy Plaza. I was the only guy with a brain that wanted to go to the go-kart races they have in Multy Centro. What is better that doing races in go-karts and being able to crash into anyone with no problem? Well another good idea going down the toilet. Flush!

            I was in the area were the skating park was, seeing the people skating. I was the first person from the group to get there, as always. I had the gifts I had to give as secret Santa and the money that all the parents have paid for the activity. Mom is the secretary of the parent’s comity so see normally gives me the things for me to give them to the scout chief. I had the idea of me buying the tickets because There were only about ten persons their and like that I will buy tickets for 12:00 pm when everyone should be here. It was a very good idea for use to not have to do a line, and also another good idea that goes down the toilet. Flush!

            I waited 45 minutes for Aunt Patricia Chu, Rodrigo, Aaron, and Rodrigo’s cousin to get there. As always I tried to grip Rodrigo’s cheeks which are the biggest in all Panama. In about 20 minutes the Paniza family and their friend came. Elizabeth, our scout chief, came to us and told us that the rest of the kids were in Sandburs buying things. I went there and talked to them. I looked in the library section to see if they had The Absolute Diary of the Part Time Indian, only if I finished The Secret Life of Bees before school starts. They only had some books in English and they weren’t the best books you will want to read. After Jose Luis finished his shopping we went were the scout chiefs were. Edwin came and talked to me. I really like Edwin because he is very nice and it the only one that has never done something bad to me.

            The chief said that it will take a lot of time for us to go skating so she let us go were ever we wanted to go around Multy Plaza. The thing was that if it was time for us to enter the ice skating place and we weren’t there we will not be allowed to skate. The entire scout but Edwin and I went to Zara. Edwin and I decided to eat ice cream. I have to say that the ice cream I ate in Multy Plaza is the best I have ever tasted. After that we went to the Mac Store to window shop. He showed me the beats headphones he is saving money for. They were about $300 but he told me that they were the best headphones and that they were the type that DJ’s use. I was looking for a cable that lets you connect your iPad to your TV. I also wanted a cable that lets you connect a laptop to your TV. I thought of using the money that my Grandpa will give me to buy the cables. I also thought of buying an iPod Nano or an iPod Shuffle to hear music will I walk or ride my bike to hap kido classes. Edwin told me that there is a special bracelet that lets you use the Nano as a watch and that it makes it easy to run wile you hear music.

            After that it was time for us to go back to the place where the scout chief was. We were in a line for 30 minutes waiting for it to be time to skate. When it was our turn I was the second to but on the skating shoes. They were hard and not confterble at all. It was easy to walk with them in the carpet they have before entering the skating place. We entered and apparently you can forget how to ice skate. Years ago I was very good on it and apparently I forgot. I wasn’t able to slide the blades thru the ice as before, I just walked in the ice. Little by little I remembered how to skate and I was sliding thru the ice easily. Sadly, that doesn’t means I didn’t fall. I felled 7 times in the ice but at least I wasn’t grabbing myself in the border of the ring.

            After skating we went to the food court and some ate Taco Bell and some ate pizza from Tamburelli. After we ate we started to give the gifts from secret Santa. Edwin gave me as a gift a $15 Felix B. Maduro card. I gave him a Nerf gun and Jose Luis took it and started shooting everyone, especially me. When he tried to shoot his brother, Juancho, he evaded the rubber bullet and it ended up hitting a woman that was in the next table. It hit her in a breast and she screamed of pain because it hits very hard. Jose Luis had to apologize and he got screamed at by his mother. After that I had to go to the dentist so the rest of the day wasn’t the best.