All Good Food Plus Holes in Eardrums
Hello family.
This is an email.
I was told to write that I like vegetables here in the Philippines.
I also had cravings for balut the other night, so I got one, but it was very, very old balut, and that duck was on the verge of hatching, so it was something of an experience to crunch through it's little bones, and feel it's little feathers on my tongue. I haven't ever had one that old before. I guess you just get lucky...
I am in a new area. It is Bonifacio 1st ward. It is technically still Makati city, but it is in the area around Bonifacio Global City, or Fort Bonifacio. I am in the barangays Comembo, and East Rembo.
If I ever talked about the Tubig family, whose house burned down, they moved here, so that's kind of cool. I just followed them from my last area to here.
Vegetables here are really tasty. Either that, or my appetite changed.
I really like some of the local vegetables though. By the Filipino names they are: Ampalaya, upo, kangkong, laing, and puso ng saging. Those are just the ones I'm a big fan of. If I tried to make an English translation for that it would be: Bittermelon, bottle gourd, swamp cabbage, taro leaves, and banana heart.
And then of course, the fish is good. Especially tilapia, fried or grilled. Super good. But bangus is nice as well when grilled. Here they cook fish with the head on and everything, and I find the tail and fins to be the tastiest, because they are crunchy and salty, like chips. But the part of the head that I'm assuming had the brain also has a unique and somewhat pleasant taste. I don't know if that is healthy though. Then there is the soft part near the bottom which is really tasty, and you can get some good meat in the cheeks. The only problem is your hands are all sticky afterwards, because to try to eat it with a fork and spoon would be very difficult. So congratulations. We have the food section of the emails of Elder Streeter.
Not terribly spiritual, but that's all right.
Oh, and my companion: Elder Harmer.
Tennis player, really good. American, from Utah, near Syracuse Daw. I would say he's white, but ever since he came to the Philippines, he's been nothing but red.
And he's been torn apart by the Philippines. All sorts of problems. Recently, they solved his ear problem, where there was fluid inside that wasn't draining, and so they poked holes in his eardrums, sucked it all out, and put tubes into his eardrums, so if anything else comes, it'll drain out. The weird thing is his brain had been compensating before for the fluid, so high pitched noises were harder to hear, and so his brain turned up sensitivity to those noises. Now that he is free to hear, all those high-pitched noises are extremely loud to him, and extremely piercing, and will overpower lower sounds even if the lower sounds are really louder than the higher.
So anyways, we didn't work at all last week, because I had a two-day fever, and right afterwards was the series of hospital visits and staying at the hospital for his ear thing, until our whole week was used up... so I'm excited for this week.
That's all folks....
Buhbye!
Ingat kayo lagi!
From,
Elder Streeter
This is an email.
I was told to write that I like vegetables here in the Philippines.
I also had cravings for balut the other night, so I got one, but it was very, very old balut, and that duck was on the verge of hatching, so it was something of an experience to crunch through it's little bones, and feel it's little feathers on my tongue. I haven't ever had one that old before. I guess you just get lucky...
I am in a new area. It is Bonifacio 1st ward. It is technically still Makati city, but it is in the area around Bonifacio Global City, or Fort Bonifacio. I am in the barangays Comembo, and East Rembo.
If I ever talked about the Tubig family, whose house burned down, they moved here, so that's kind of cool. I just followed them from my last area to here.
Vegetables here are really tasty. Either that, or my appetite changed.
I really like some of the local vegetables though. By the Filipino names they are: Ampalaya, upo, kangkong, laing, and puso ng saging. Those are just the ones I'm a big fan of. If I tried to make an English translation for that it would be: Bittermelon, bottle gourd, swamp cabbage, taro leaves, and banana heart.
And then of course, the fish is good. Especially tilapia, fried or grilled. Super good. But bangus is nice as well when grilled. Here they cook fish with the head on and everything, and I find the tail and fins to be the tastiest, because they are crunchy and salty, like chips. But the part of the head that I'm assuming had the brain also has a unique and somewhat pleasant taste. I don't know if that is healthy though. Then there is the soft part near the bottom which is really tasty, and you can get some good meat in the cheeks. The only problem is your hands are all sticky afterwards, because to try to eat it with a fork and spoon would be very difficult. So congratulations. We have the food section of the emails of Elder Streeter.
Not terribly spiritual, but that's all right.
Oh, and my companion: Elder Harmer.
Tennis player, really good. American, from Utah, near Syracuse Daw. I would say he's white, but ever since he came to the Philippines, he's been nothing but red.
And he's been torn apart by the Philippines. All sorts of problems. Recently, they solved his ear problem, where there was fluid inside that wasn't draining, and so they poked holes in his eardrums, sucked it all out, and put tubes into his eardrums, so if anything else comes, it'll drain out. The weird thing is his brain had been compensating before for the fluid, so high pitched noises were harder to hear, and so his brain turned up sensitivity to those noises. Now that he is free to hear, all those high-pitched noises are extremely loud to him, and extremely piercing, and will overpower lower sounds even if the lower sounds are really louder than the higher.
So anyways, we didn't work at all last week, because I had a two-day fever, and right afterwards was the series of hospital visits and staying at the hospital for his ear thing, until our whole week was used up... so I'm excited for this week.
That's all folks....
Buhbye!
Ingat kayo lagi!
From,
Elder Streeter
Hey Brother Streeter! This is Nathan McQuarrie. I've been trying to contact Elder Streeter for a while, but I think my emails probably didn't get through to him. I tried to find him on facebook but I couldn't find him there. Is there anyway I could contact him? I heard he just got home and I'd love to talk to him sometime. If you see this, reply to me through email to nathanmcq96@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteThank you!