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{SPEAKER name="Jeanne Porterfield"}
Here, Pam Dallas leaves a cultural center in search of more subjects to paint in town.

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{SPEAKER name="Jeanne Porterfield"}
Often too, he can be found right on the town streets conducting his art classes.

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{SPEAKER name="Jeanne Porterfield"}
The official language of the entire Netherlands Antilles is Dutch, but the ABC Group have an added language all their own called, "Poppymento."

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Its recipe contains two cups of Spanish, one cup of Dutch, a teaspoon of French, a pinch of Portuguese, and a dash of English.

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The dash of English being the words, "okay," and "payday."

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Along L'Orangestad's waterfront, schooners come again from South America to sell their food, which consists mainly of fish and fresh food. And in the marketplace, everyone searches for a bargain among the bananas.

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But instead of a bargain among the bananas, you're liable to find something quite different.
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While we've encountered many camera-shy people on our travels
{LAUGHTER}

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Moored along the waterfront is a little house boat, the home of a unique floating restaurant called the Bally.

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We went in to have their specialty, rijsttafel, a meal to have only when you're really hungry and not counting calories as it consists of twenty to forty different exotic Indonesian dishes.

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It takes two days to eat or two days that's right two days to prepare all the dishes, two hours to eat them, and I might add, about two weeks of strenuous dieting afterwards but now I wasn't thinking about those two weeks. I did that later.

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We were told that this was just the first group of dishes to be served. Well, you know I couldn't believe it until they brought the second.

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Later, when we left, the owner was outside to greet us or was it to congratulate us?