Thursday, October 14, 2010

No news is good news...honestly.

I know this sounds like rather american/super-size-me thing to do...but I can think of no better way to describe my day than to tell you what I ate for breakfast lunch and dinner.
Goi woke me up this morning with the smell of home-cooked Thai food. She'd made rice and already had the wok simmering with some vegetables and told me that I had to "eat eat eat!" because we'd need strength today. We sat on the floor as always and she pretty much insisted I finish half a box of rice by myself before we headed out the door.
So the last two days I've put designing the Health Expo on hold and been helping the office clean out the downstairs warehouse. Basically the entire building quit work and has been working 9-5 cleaning the warehouse so our language school can expand soon. I've pretty much been up to my elbows in mildew, cockroach and termite carcasses, and rotten paper products. LOL. The bright side however, is we've gotten to know the office team a LOT better, even the Mission president goofs off and lends a hand.
The highpoint: LUNCH. Everyone had brought lunch to work...CRAZY! Potlucks here would be incredible, just fyi. Basically this guy brings out a basket of sticky rice and everyone just dips in, grabs a handful, rolls a ball and starts dipping in papaya salad, fish, peanut sauce and stuffs their face. It was fantastic.
After another 4 hours of dirty work we headed back to the apartment and Goi said she was "too hungry for restaurant food" and wanted to cook again. We made a feast and decided we needed Andrew to help us eat it. So we met at the office and put all our dishes across one of our co-workers desks (which will go anonymous) and watched a movie while eating, as luck would have it that co-worker decided to stop by the office on the way home aaaaaand caught us eating on his desk. Woops!
He laughed at catching us but luckily didn't do much.
**Oh! Dinner menu was: more rice *what a shock! jk* stir fry, fruit that I still cant translate from Thai, a soup from herbs I've never before seen, grape juice and cake O.O all for a grand total of 1$ each**

1 comment:

  1. $1!!! That is crazy cheap! Props for facing the challenge of cockroaches and mildew! i am glad you survived! - Meg

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