In the afternoon I got a call from a friend of Tony's that wanted to come over. When I got home I told her to head on over, and she did. Her name was Frances, a 19 year old college student that spoke English fairly well.

She arrived and we made out for a little bit on my bed at which point she said "are we just going to kiss or are we going to have sex?" I could tell she was new at this... Not necessarily in a good way. Frances was a great kisser and we ended up having fun together though.

She told me that she needed money to support her addiction to Manga... Manga is very expensive in Cuba apparently.

Photo: Frances 16

great report so far. Funny, i go to mde, then you follow. Today, I was researching a trip to cuba, then you post this TR. Btw, do you know if the cuba still bans flights originating from mexico?

Anyways, this girl and the one from a the night before are very cute. actually, they are all cute!

btw, what's manga?

(Message edited by socrates69 on September 03, 2009)

Cuba has many flights originating from Mexico. One of the few Americans I met there had flown in through Cancun.

Manga is a form of the Japanese Animation subculture...

lol, that's what I thought manga was...but in this context, hooker with an expensive habit, I mistakenly assumed it was some sort of code word for some sort of drug of some type.

I had a flight to cuba a month after the swine flu hit mexico. The flight I had from mex to cuba was cancelled due to the travel ban. Good to hear the channels are now open. Will go check it out and report back!

Gents,

I'm guessing this but I believe Frances is abbreviating/slanging the term for mantenga (maintenance).

I thinks she is saying she is "High Maintenance"

Just a guess because in all my years, I have never heard the term manga used before. So it may be a younger generation slang word.



Cheers,


Cubanut

No Cubanut, we actually talked quite a bit about Manga, the Japanese Animation... I was shocked she even knew what it was, living in Cuba and all. We spoke in English so nothing was lost in translation. I included that tidbit in my report because of how random it was. Her cell phone was full of jap-anime stickers as well.

What an odd obsession for an ultra-poor working girl to spend her money on...

Infanticide,

I stand very corrected. I have never even heard of manga before. But then again I don't watch tv and I don't use the internet for anything else than what I do out here.

I hadn't thought before to Google manga.

Japanes Animation? Hmmm. When I Googled it it came up with Manga dot com. A hot blond named Ssie seems to be one of the heroes in thongs, fishnet stockings and heels.

Now if only there was a place in Havana where a Cubana were allowed to dress like Susie!


Cheers,


Cubanut

Curious anecdote. I know that some teenage and young female adults are into the manga comics but it's an "only in Cuba" story when you find a girl who does some hooking on the side to buy the stuff.

She doesn't have the look of the harder-core clubgoing girls so her story could be mostly true. Maybe that's how she justifies her hooking? I'd imagine though at least some of the money she makes has to go to more practical things; there can't be that many manga comics for sale, even in the capital city of Havana.

On a side note, I believe there is some historical connection between Cuba and mainland China but not so much Japan. I know there's some Japanese tourism in Cuba, but I don't think there's much of a cultural connection, unlike say Brazil, so this will have to stay in the unusual category.

A teenage girl into imported comic books, how odd?