So, I think it was just yesterday that I was writing about Manny, and mentioned that I was glad he didn’t live here in Pana, as I seem to have enough weird people here that want to be friends with me.

Less than 6 hours after writing that, I made a new “friend” which means someone randomly stopped me in the street to talk to me because I speak English. Maybe that’s it, I should feign ignorance, and let people believe I’m a European from some odd country, maybe the Czech republic or something. Maybe then I won’t make so many “friends.”

I digress. The newest “friend” I’ve made is named Matt, not to be confused with the fairly normal Matt that I know here who’s from Australia and rode here on a bicycle. This Matt is an American. And when the conversation got to what we do, he said “I’ve got a bunch of kids with a lot of different women, that’s kind of my thing.” American Matt always runs around either bare-foot or bare chested, and sometimes both. he’s always wearing his sunglasses, normally a baseball cap, and a small backpack. I’ve seen Matt around town for about a month, and according to our conversation, that would coincide with his arrival date.

I don’t know how Matt makes his money, and I didn’t want to ask why “his thing” is having a bunch of kids with a bunch of women. Maybe I’ll have the opportunity to say something constructive to Matt.