some fun stories for you!

~Today at the clinic I was walking with two of the girls, Clarisa and Maria Louisa, when the cook asked us if we would sit outside and peel mandarins for lunch. Sure! So we sat down with a bowl of about 40 mandarins and began peeling. I peeled about 35, Maria Louisa peeled about 3 and Clarisa licked 2 and threw them on the ground. I didn’t want to give her any because I didn’t want to waste them but she kept screaming until I gave her some. My fingers were raw and sticky afterwards, but when the cooks saw that I had thrown away the parts Clarisa licked, they told me to take them out. I explained what happened, they smiled, and took them out of the garbage bag haha yuuum!!

~I found out yesterday that Maria Louisa has a crush on one of the security guards at the clinic. Yesterday we were sitting by the security entrance with a couple girls when they all started shouting “CELESTINO CELESTINO!!!!” at one of the guards. Maria Louisa immediately started laughing and shaking her head and hiding behind me. Apparently it’s common knowledge that she likes him…. although I think Celestino was more embarrassed than she was. Today, the cook gave us an extra mandarin to eat and I made Maria Louisa take it to him and say hi. Just call me matchmaker :)

~One of the girls in my house knows how to salsa dance..like REAL salsa dance, with a partner and everythinggggg! SO…she was teaching some of us. So great. If you know me then you probably know that I watch Dancing with the Stars religiously…I am now one more step closer to being on the show!!!!

~One of the Americans here had to teach a “how to” lesson plan for her English as a Second Language class and she taught them how to make ants on a log (celery with peanut butter and raisins…) She shared the leftovers with us and the non-Americans that I live with couldn’t believe we put peanut butter on anything besides a sandwich! A couple of the other Americans and I have been searching for peanut butter ice cream since we got here. I’m really not sure why, because I hardly ever eat it at home, but it just sounded amazing. But we decided that they needed to try something else with peanut butter so when we failed to find the ice cream we just bought peanut butter and vanilla ice cream and mixed it together. Amazing. Everyone has passed along the word to their home countries that peanut butter is good on pretty much anything. We now eat peanut butter on bananas for breakfast :)