January 06, 2012

Hellos Family! November 1, 2010

How´s it going everybody!

Let´s see...

Today is the day when everyone here eats bread in the shape of kids and drinks warm blackberry juice.  Falicidades.  

I do have a funny food story, but it´s a little different today.  

So we made our own lunch today, it being p-day.  We didn´t have a huge variety of things, so I made white sauce to put over pasta and put some spaghetti on to boil.  The last time that I made noodles, they were a little undercooked, but not much.  They tasted alright to me, but Hna Zenteno said they were way undercooked.  I thought that she was just exaggerating.  

I checked the noodles and they were perfect.  I was about to turn them off, and Hna Zenteno was like, no they have a little more time.  Okay.  Whatever.  She likes her noodles a little softer.  A few minute later, I checked again.  A little mushy, but not unbarable.  So I turned it off. 
 ¨No! They still have a lot of time left.¨ 
What?  I was like, no they are a little over cooked.  
She says, ¨No they still lack a little.¨ 
Then I realized that sometimes, part of a different culture is the way they cook their noodles.  

So I pulled half of them out for me and let the rest cook for a while.  In the end, I tried one, just to see how she liked them.  

Let´s just say that I prefer my noodles not in a mush.

And she said that they still needed to cook a little longer. 

Then I remembered one time when someone made me noodles and I wanted to gag because they were so overcooked.  And I realized that maybe in this world, some people like their noodles nice and mushy.

Yum.

I´m sorry that this isn´t a Spiritual experience or anything to uplift you all today, but it was in my head, so I shared it.

Buen provecho.

Love. Love. Love.

Hermana Cooper

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