Friday, December 31, 2010

Back

Hello, I'm back. Did you miss me?

I've been on vacation for the last several weeks and thus have not been writing if you hadn't noticed. I won't write much now but there will be a few longer posts coming soon with some interesting stories if you care to do all the reading. I'll try to add in some good pictures too so the deal is sweetened a bit. Unfortunately, you'll have to wait for those as I'm currently sick and unmotivated to write much. I had this for the last couple of days in India and I dismissed it as a minor something that would go away. It just keeps hanging around and today I have a slight fever with it. I'm not dead yet though, so stay tuned!

Monday, December 6, 2010

Correction

I must apologize. Two posts ago I improperly quoted the side of the ambulance. It wasn't "property of" but rather "Courtesy" and I totally left out the word "Homage" which was just a big mistake on my part. Please enjoy the picture below to see the correct form the phrase.



This week I've been visiting partner organizations with some co-workers to do some paperwork and decision making with them. This invariably means that they serve us snacks twice in the morning and once in the afternoon because that is proper hospitality here. One afternoon this week they brought out half a dozen plates with nothing but deep fried foods. I was at a loss as to how they could manage to find the variety of deep fried foods that they did until I started eating them and realized that they pretty much just deep fried anything they could get their hands on. My favorites were the deep fried hard boiled egg and the deep fried onion (which I kid you not tasted exactly like a blooming onion). My least favorites were definitely the deep fried coriander leaves and the deep fried garlic which was every bit as strong tasting as you would imagine batter fried garlic would taste. Eat and smile....eat and smile. Sometimes you've just got to take one for the team.