Weekend
Honestly the best thing about having a long, crappy, boring week at school is the amaaaaaaazing feeling of finally making it to the weekend. That was my feeling when I got up this morning. To celebrate my four day weekend I put on my "fun stuff" mix from Jaime : )
My favorite health-conscious person (Dylan!) might not want to hear this, but I had the most delicious junk food today. I went out for American-style pizza with Mariah, Jessica, and Carla. The company was lovely, and the pizza fantastic: hot, salty, cheesy, covered in black olives. Yummm. Then we all had icecream. I'm still full from lunch and Erika is cooking one of her big weekend meals.
Its so strange to think of everyone getting back to Grinnell this weekend. The thought of the cornfields, moving back in in the humid heat, the parties, French House...it all makes me nostalgic, but from a distance. I'm really glad that I'm not doing all that right now. Grinnell seems so far away.
I tried Coca today. You can buy it for really cheap in little bags of dried leaves. It kind of tastes like bitter mint or like tea bags. Its really popular here and in the whole Andes region--people chew coca the way they would drink coffee. Its supposed to help you stay alert, to settle your stomach, and to help with altitude sickness. Marjorie told me that they sell huge amounts of it to tourists to Macchu Picchu, who without it would be too sick to do anything.
Chile played Peru in a really hyped-up soccer game a few nights ago. I watched some of it and it was pretty exciting, though Chile lost. The Peruvian players were huge and dark, and the Chileans really little and light, on average a foot and a half shorter, it was kind of cute and sad. Well at least I learned a lot of swear words from the frustrated Chileans I was watching it with. And from watching the spectators on TV I learned the Chilean version of 'the wave'. How it works is that someone shouts, "He who doesn't stand is Pinochet!" And then everyone jumps up!
My favorite health-conscious person (Dylan!) might not want to hear this, but I had the most delicious junk food today. I went out for American-style pizza with Mariah, Jessica, and Carla. The company was lovely, and the pizza fantastic: hot, salty, cheesy, covered in black olives. Yummm. Then we all had icecream. I'm still full from lunch and Erika is cooking one of her big weekend meals.
Its so strange to think of everyone getting back to Grinnell this weekend. The thought of the cornfields, moving back in in the humid heat, the parties, French House...it all makes me nostalgic, but from a distance. I'm really glad that I'm not doing all that right now. Grinnell seems so far away.
I tried Coca today. You can buy it for really cheap in little bags of dried leaves. It kind of tastes like bitter mint or like tea bags. Its really popular here and in the whole Andes region--people chew coca the way they would drink coffee. Its supposed to help you stay alert, to settle your stomach, and to help with altitude sickness. Marjorie told me that they sell huge amounts of it to tourists to Macchu Picchu, who without it would be too sick to do anything.
Chile played Peru in a really hyped-up soccer game a few nights ago. I watched some of it and it was pretty exciting, though Chile lost. The Peruvian players were huge and dark, and the Chileans really little and light, on average a foot and a half shorter, it was kind of cute and sad. Well at least I learned a lot of swear words from the frustrated Chileans I was watching it with. And from watching the spectators on TV I learned the Chilean version of 'the wave'. How it works is that someone shouts, "He who doesn't stand is Pinochet!" And then everyone jumps up!
posted by Julia | 4:19 PM
1 Comments:
"Coca protects the body from many ailments, and our doctors use it in powdered form to reduce the swelling of wounds, to strengthen broken bones, to expel cold from the body or prevent it from entering, and to cure rotten wounds or sores that are full of maggots. And if it does so much for outward ailments, will not its singular virtue have even greater effect in the entrails of those who eat it?"
I never understood why it is a useful substance in some countries and a scourge in others.
Daughter
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