I like green oranges, Sam I Am.

Nothing new this week, except my schedule was weird.  Full day Monday, half day on Tuesday because of exams, Mobile English Village yesterday, and today was 10/10, a national holiday.  I think it has something to do with Taiwan becoming a country in 1912.  Tomorrow is a normal day, and then it's the weekend.

I spent today in Sanyi, at Peggy's, with some of the other FET's.  Mandy made her spaghetti bolognaise, which was delicious, by the way.  Everybody brought a component, meat, or bread, or whatever.  I wanted to make a dessert.  Mandy had sent a really good dessert recipe:


"Candy Corn" fruit cups, genius.  Pineapple, mandarin oranges, and whipped cream.

I went to the store yesterday, and got my dinner contribution, bacon.  Except I had no idea how much was in each package, because it was all in Chinese.  I found pineapple, but no canned oranges, or whipped cream.  Mandy found whipped cream at Wellcome, a grocery store in Zhunan, and I went to the open air market this morning to find oranges.  It's tricky, because if they're orange, and they call them oranges, they're actually grapefruit.  Sigh.

The traditional markets here are interesting.  You can buy clothes, or meat, or fruit, or a live fish to take home and cook.  I found a fruit stand, and surprisingly, the owner spoke English very well.  He pointed out the oranges.  They're green.

I was pretending to be a Real OC Housewife, ha ha.  They look and taste normal on the inside, just a little different on the outside.

We had a late lunch/early dinner in Sanyi, wonderful, of course.  I learned how to peel a tomato.  I don't cook with tomatoes, I don't know what to do with them.

This weekend I may have an adventure, I'll keep you posted.