Cuba

Cuba evokes pretty strong feelings and images in people's minds. It's about hot Cuban Salsa nights, the morbid romantic of Havanna, Ernest Hemingway, old Cadillacs and Chevys, communism and of course Che Guevara and the revolution. The country is a reminiscence to what we think the good old twenties must have been and felt like. Of course all of that has shaped the country's history and still wafts through the Cuban air. But Cuba's reality looks different today. The embargo limits the people's life in economic matters as well as horizontal wise. Cubans seem to wait for something to happen of which they don't even know what it is. They sit in front of their houses, watch people passing by and wait. They've arranged themselves with the situation and make the best out of it until something happens. But it felt to me as if they don't see the need to change things on their own and take the initiative. Everything feels really slow on Cuba. The time literally takes time. And so I'm pretty sure it will take a long long while until things might change in Cuba.