Vast Amounts of Reading Shall Insue... Prepare Thyself

Good news everyone: I have recently regained my passion for life and will to live! This is excellent for me at least because it means I am no longer wallowing in a vat of self-pity and despair, and gives me a chance to “expand my horizons” by delving deeper into my own mind, the mind of those around me, life, the universe, and everything. So I feel better, and also inspired to write. Finally! I realized I have become far to lax in my postings here, so I shall try to rectify this by uploading as many things as possible in one sudden onslaught, so prepare yourself for some heavy reading/picture viewing. One more thing pertaining to my rejuvenated outlook on life, and that is that I own this to certain people who like to pick me up and shake me (not literally, necessarily) and cause me to get back on my feet and take a tentative leap back into the land of the living. As you can imagine I am highly indebted to these people, and so I express my deep appreciation for them, although they aren’t aware of who they are (or are they?).
Okay, so this is the part where we do some heavy backtracking. I have had several interesting experiences since coming to this grand land that I have not shared, and I feel the worse for not taking the time to talk about them. I think I may have hurt their feelings, so it is at this time that I shall attempt to make them feeling better. No, I’m just playing with you, I don’t care about their feelings at all; I care about YOURS! I don’t want “my readers” (I was recently informed I actually have some) to feel neglected, so here we go. Prepare for launching... I shall start with the most recent and go backwards.

Potato Picking 101

Much of my time in the past couple weeks has been spent doing the lovely task of picking potatoes. Yep, red ones. It has been a good experience, all that bending, and getting dirt beneath my nails. I actually love this job – I get to smell dirt all day and talk to people, due to the fact that it is a pretty much mindless task so you are free to gab as much as you like, or at least as much as the person you are conversating with can handle. On Mondays and Wednesdays we have “practical education” for 4 hours in the afternoons, and I have spent 16 hours in the past 2 weeks out in the field. Sadly they are all out at this point, and the work crews are switching, so sadly my potato picking days have come to an end. But I am grateful for this experience, for it has brought me closer to some people here that I otherwise don’t have alot of opportunities to speak with, and it is nice to be eating potatoes and be able to say “hey! I recognize that one!” at least, that is how it is for me.

Here we have some pictures of Rob driving the tractor. Notice the device that wreaks havoc upon the happy little potato mounds and sends them flying hither and thither across the field. I like it. I had the opportunity to drive the tractor, but considering my past driving history (that one time when I almost ran over the lawnmower with the Red Car) I figured everyone was safer if I simply observed from the sidelines.

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Oh, this day of all days was one of the most entertaining times I have had since coming here (once you hear the story you will gain some insight into how little entertainment I have here). Once upon a time, there were two girls, namely Jen and Sarah, and a couple of Spaniards, namely Andres and Alvaro, and they were bored. They had discovered that sitting in the living room of the boy’s dorm watching other people play ping pong was really quite dull, so they began to come up with ideas of ways to amuse themselves. After shooting down several less-then-appealing proposals, Alvaro and Jen came to the conclusion that the best idea would be to go on a cow chase. So the Spaniards gathered their cameras and Sarah and Jen gathered their wits, and they went in search of some cows. I cannot say the cows were willing; our heroes had to hike across a large field in order to find them, but find them they did! So Jen hopped the electric fence and ran at those cows, causing them to look at her dazedly at first, but then run with terror from her. As she frolicked with the cows the other three took pictures, and made friends with the cows themselves. Jen came out mostly unscathed, save one shoe that made its unfortunate way into a rather fresh cow pie. And here we have photographic evidence of this day, brought to you by Sarah.

So, for now I shall have to leave this as-is, but I think there is plenty to keep a reader occupied. I'll post more past adventures later.

Jen<3