I was a little stir crazy the other day, so I invited myself to transplant bananas with my neighbor. It was, to be fair, the first time I have had the occasion to plant a banana. What it was not was the first time I have ever used a shovel/dug a hole. After about 6” done, my neighbor took a break from digging to express his surprise at my ability to dig a hole. I guess he thought my offer to help was an empty one.
Monday, August 1, 2011
If you think there is something crawling on you...
... then there probably is.
I was talking with another volunteer about how nice it is that here in Mcar there isn’t really much to worry about in the way of poisonous creatures. It actually makes me (slightly) less jumpy knowing that all the creepy-crawlies that pop up everywhere are mostly just harmful to their dinner. However, this does not mean that they keep to themselves. There are some bugs here that are REALLY annoying, even though “harmless.”
The World is Flat
I often eat dinner at my neighbors’ house. They are wonderful people and very nice to let me eat there frequently and are patient as I struggle to follow the flow of conversation. A few days ago the topic took a turn from a discussion about the timeline of the World Wars and the Cold War to the question/statement, “I’ve never heard of anyone who has seen the end of the world.” They were all looking at me, waiting for me to tell them exactly where the end of the world is. As I struggled to formulate my answer, they thought maybe I hadn’t understood the question. I also thought I must have misunderstood the question; we were on the same page there. But after some clarification it turns out that that was, in fact, the question.
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