What to do when one is unemployed and on a limited budget while traveling? One of the things I've been doing to supplement our "helado" budget is cut hair!
It's not a bad gig, really... we get to see different parts of the city, and meet some interesting folks (after all, it takes a special person to respond to a Craigslist ad for an English speaking, cheap, amateur haircutter!) We travel as a pack: Tats and the boys come with me; they do their homework while I chat up the customers and cut their hair!
This evening, we had a call to go see some fellows in Villa Crespo, about a 20 minute bus ride from the apartment. They were Americans working in BA for the year, and all living together in a big house.
Two of them needed a haircut.
After an hour and a half of flying scissors and a little bit of buzzing, one guy looked great, and the other fellow looked as good as I could get him given the extremely limited light I was working in.
We pocketed our earnings, and stopped at the nearest ice cream joint, Ricolato Hilado, on Cordoba, before jumping on the bus to head home.
This place has the best vanilla ice cream I've ever tasted!!!
It's not a bad gig, really... we get to see different parts of the city, and meet some interesting folks (after all, it takes a special person to respond to a Craigslist ad for an English speaking, cheap, amateur haircutter!) We travel as a pack: Tats and the boys come with me; they do their homework while I chat up the customers and cut their hair!
This evening, we had a call to go see some fellows in Villa Crespo, about a 20 minute bus ride from the apartment. They were Americans working in BA for the year, and all living together in a big house.
Two of them needed a haircut.
After an hour and a half of flying scissors and a little bit of buzzing, one guy looked great, and the other fellow looked as good as I could get him given the extremely limited light I was working in.
We pocketed our earnings, and stopped at the nearest ice cream joint, Ricolato Hilado, on Cordoba, before jumping on the bus to head home.
This place has the best vanilla ice cream I've ever tasted!!!
We told the owner his helados was "Muy Bueno!" (Probably grammatically incorrect, but he got the point because he smiled, and pointed to a photo of himself working at the shop some 40 years ago, and told the boys that he'd started serving helados when he was just 9 years old!)