So after my extensive job search, I have found a few gigs to pay the bills.  (As a side note, let me just say that unless you are are beautiful girl in her mid 20`s, it`s almost impossible to find a bartending/waiter job in Antigua.  I`m pretty sure I visited close to every bar in Antigua and heard from at least 5 or 6 of them that they were only looking for a woman bartender.  I lost two jobs to girls too)

So anyways, I have started working at two places, one is called Kafka (http://kafkahostel.com/Kafka_Bar+Grill/HOME.html)  and is a bar/restaurant/hostel.  I`m going to be working there as a bartender/designer.  The owner is a 30 year old guy who is really cool and laid back.  When I`m not working behind the bar, he basically wants to go through the entire place (which is actually really big) with me and work on the image of the place.  He`s really open to whatever and has really good ideas.  We`ve already had a few brainstorming sessions about all of the possible things that we can do (as long as its cheap).  He just opened a new entryway to the place and we`ve started by painting KAFKA in giant letters on the wall (which I will post pictures of after we`ve finished).

The second place I`m working at is a fancypants restaurant called Bistro Cinq (http://www.bistrotcinq.com/).   I am currently being trained as a mixologist…. seriously, “mixologist”… I can`t help but be excited about this.  This`ll be cool because I`ll be making all kinds of drinks rather than just opening beers for people.  The other plus is that everybody else there (other than the owner) is Guatemalan, meaning that everything is in Spanish.  I`m being taught mostly by a 19 year old kid named Jonathan who, from what I`ve seen up to this point, really knows what the hell he`s doing. 

More to come…