STITCH's blog: "Be Still (Song Lyrics)"

Why Puerto Rican are so COOL! We are a mix of the best of every race. Our legal drinking age is 18. We don't care less what other people think of us. We are not only bilingual but we can speak 'Spanglish' Our women are some of the most beautiful in the world, (7 Miss Universe) We are LATINOS, and yet AMERICANS In PR, any road will take you to a beach..... or a pub. We are the only 'territory' of another country with our own Olympic teams. We do everything under the sun... because we CAN! We don't need to take vacations to be in a tropical paradise. In PR everything is really close. I can call you sir ('USTED'), and insult you in the same sentence. Our Spanish is completely different than any other Spanish speaking country. We all have cool nicknames. (Pucho, Tito, Cuca la Loca!!) We have some of the best athletes in the world. We make the best coffee of the world. even the Pope drinks it.. WE CAN DANCE! They come from around the world to hire our engineers and scientists. We are the country with the most roads by square mile (and there is still traffic). We have the longest swimming pool in the world (Cerromar) La 'Calle del Cristo' (San Juan P.R.) was the first road of 'The New World ' to be paved. We are the major RUM manufacturer of the world. And we have the Cathedral of Rums! 86% of the rum drunk in the U.S. is from Puerto Rico. and they are well known around the world. We have more female engineers than any other country. (and you still call us machistas?) We know how to party, without absurd curfew laws. The bats from the Movie Batman Forever were filmed in Las Cuevas de Camuy, P.R. We invented the MayoKetchup! We kicked the DREAM TEAM's ass Puerto Rico has one of the world's highest productivity ratios. Salsa music was the fastest growing genre in the last 20 years. 0A Four Puerto Ricans received the Congress Medal of Honor EurI­pides Rubio, Carlos Lozada, Hector Santiago y Fernando Luis Ledesma Garci­a. Only 4 baseball players have 2 Home Runs in the same Inning; 3 of them are Puerto Ricans (Roberto Clemente, RobertoAlomar and Carlos Baerga) Tito Trinidad never went to the Olympics but defeated 4 gold medal champions. A Puerto Rican, Nellie Toledo, designed the 1984 Camaro Berlinetta We were the 5th country in THE WORLD to have a radio station. (before Washington DC) Junior Cordero (Puerto Rican) won the Kentucky Derby 3 times. There is only 7 fluorescent lagoons in the world; we have 4 of them. Giovanni Hidalgo is considered the best percussionist in THE WORLD. Jose Feliciano is in the top 3 guitar players in THE WORLD (don't forget he is blind). The Discovery 500; Solar car designed by the Mayaguez College won 41 awards en Sunrayace, Iowa in 1993. We established the first lottery system in the New World. And Last but not Least we have the Largest Radio Radar Telescope in the world,at Arecibo, PR NOT TOO BAD FOR AN ISLAND THAT MEASURES ONLY 100 X 35 MILES ...