10:17 pm
Pday!
Finally defrosted our fridge! We've had a lovely block of ice about 4 inches
thick in the top of our little freezer compartment since I got here, so
hopefully our "refri" will work better now. Gotta love the laws of
physics!
Also, we
always haggle with the taxi drivers over prices, so that's fun. Usually we bid
10 or 20 lemps below what they say, and we can meet in the middle. And if they
don't want to take us we always find another one, as taxis are in plenitude
here.
Also, a
lot of people burn their trash, so it's common to see patches black ashes mixed
in with the dirt, and little smoldering piles of stuff in the street as well as
full on flames sometimes as we're walking around. Pretty interesting.
And it's
pretty rare to see PDA here, the craziest I've seen is an older (actually)
married couple sitting together and holding hands. Kinda different in the
States where everyone's kissing and holding hands and walking around together. PDA is definitely not a thing over here.
And we
have foods named after weapons and stuff, kinda funny, baleadas and
macheteadas...baleadas because bullets are balas, and there was a story
(different versions) about this old lady that sold tortillas with frijoles and
queso and huevos, but there was a fight and she got shot, and survived and kept
selling her tortillas. So they called her Senora Baleada (because she was
"bulleted" or shot), and her type of tortillas are called baleadas after
her. More or less the story behind those. And macheteadas are called that
because it's a flat circle pastry that's fried and covered in mantequilla or
honey, and it has 3 or 4 slits in the middle, like the cuts from a machete. We
have a violent history of food here.
We cleaned house, did laundry, bought groceries, did our Pday stuff, and had a NDH
(Noche de Hogar, or Family Home Evening) with Alonso and discussed the Plan of
Salvation and eternal marriage, as he and Iris are not married, and they need
to get married so he can be baptized. The marriage thing down here is also not
big, if I haven't said that already. Most of our problems are because of that.
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