These are a few of my favorite things.

This is a THEMED POST.

Yes, it is exciting.

But first, a quick clear up. I have no internets at my house for the next few days and then I go to stay with my host family. I just have to haul all my gear to the tech center everytime I want to send an email.

Thank you Aditi for the concern :)

My Favorite Things

1) All the veggies I eat here. They (my royal grandparents) feed me the freshest stuff here. I actually eat green things (not just carrots, as I usually do). The only carrot I've eaten here was purple.

2) My Grandparents Bickering. Prime example

Granny: You know the only phrase Grunkle speaks of Spanish?
Grunkle: "No tengo dinaro, mi amiga paga." (I have no money, my friend will pay, roughly speaking)
Granny: So he uses this on me every time we go somewhere Spanish speaking.
Grunkle: My moneybags wife here.
Granny: So I'm learning how to say "No she effing won't."

3) Being called "La Bomba Blonde" at the cafe by a rather creepy customer. Also having all these old dudes bring along their teenager sons and encourage them to hit on me (they don't). This is my favorite thing only because it is amusing. It's not my favorite thing past the first time it happens.

4) Hearing the phrase "You are a menace to civilization" as part of normal breakfast conversing.

5) The FOOD. I eat macaroons like it is my business. I drink melted hot chocolate by the tea cup. Ham sandwiches have never been so enjoyed. And these things called Koigna manns are positively the best way to gain a lot of weight. Luckily my slave drivers keep me busy and well exercised.

6) Breakfast. This has always been my favorite thing. If you are looking for a mind bogglingly cheerful person in the morning to make you breakfast and give you a backrub and explain how awesome you are, look no further.

7) Market day. And really cheap underwear. And Grunkle running around explaining he is having a sex change due to some hormone blocking pills for his cancer treatment. Better laughing than crying, although we all cry from laughing so hard when he pretends to have a hot flash. And this morning when he explained he wanted to dress up as a lady to send photos to my father. Luckily we distracted him by saying there was an army of rabbits in the garden.

8) Mole treatment. The best way to get rid of moles is to pee down their holes and on them. The best way to get rid of ANYONE? Pee on them. Grunkle said he attended a workshop on how to get rid of moles and when he explained that you should just pee on them, the teacher blanched. And then said "but if you do that, they will go over to your neighbors."

I drove the stickshift car all the way to Nivillac. I only stalled once and got into all the gears and didn't hit ANYTHING. Take that, you-oh-so-loyal-friends-and-family.