Yesterday I ate about 7 little Dove chocolate with almond thingies for dinner. The ones with the wrappers that have stuff written on the inside. Out of the 7, I got three that said "You look good in red." I must look good in red.
Yesterday I also ate 2 pieces of cake when I attended a lab meeting for my old life - my graduate "career" in environmental science. GSB has returned to the States so we had a welcome back cake. Of course my two pieces were the corner ones with all the icing!
I also learned about Bioko Island. Bioko Island is a small island off the coast of West Africa belonging to Equatorial Guinea - the only Spanish speaking country in Africa. Leatherbacks nest here so one of my friends is doing research there. She lives in a tent and patrols the beach. I learned also that there is a large monkey meat market there where you can get $200+ for one monkey. Of course they are endangered, and it is illegal to hunt them, but it happens anyway.
I also learned something else interesting. In Bioko they eat "gron bif." Which, when you say it, sounds quite like ground beef - a nice little beef patty. BUT, not so. Gron bif is actually litterally "ground meat" - ground as in the ground that we walk on, and meat as in a very large rat. So note to self, don't ever go to Bioko Island and ask for gron bif.
My vocabulary today is quite bad today.
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3 comments:
good note to self
wouldn't it be better if they just called it "dirty rat"
I am preety sure that Bogart would have
Dear Penguin Files,
Does your program at Biokou Island accept volunteers? I have always wanted to be a volunteer. I like volunteers. I think I'm one of them.
Barb
dear barb, bioko does accept volunteers. they are firm believers that once you are a volunteer, you are always a volunteer.
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