11/18 – During our time at Foulpointe, we met this guy named Jean-Michel who ended up doing quite a bit for us. He was one of the guys who walk around the beach and tries to sell things to foreigners are visiting. He took us out on a little pirogue twice so that we could go snorkeling in the coral reef! We saw dozens of different types of tropical fish and held starfish and sea urchins. It was a really cool opportunity and ridiculous to think that I was snorkeling a couple times during finals week. WTF!
Jean-Michel also cooked dinner for us a few times, the first time he went and bought us 2 kilograms of fresh, giant prawns and grilled them on the beach, which we ate with rice and papaya salad. It was so good! Afterwards, we decided to order a special dinner for Thanksgiving because we were all devastated to be missing it at home. On Thanksgiving night, JM made us a kg of the shrimp, a kg of lobster and a small fish in addition to salad and rice. These meals fed 5 of us and cost about $30 total for the lobster dinner and even less for the shrimp one.
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