Sabbath

I woke up this morning to prepare for a day full of singing and talking, laughing and sharing, only to discover that I had lost most of my voice over night while I was sleeping. I went to church, thinking that perhaps somehow it would come back, but throughout the morning it got worse and worse. This really wouldn't be a problem normally, but I was supposed to sing a solo in a choir for a festival. Clearly that didn't happen. They still made me go and stand up front and pretend to sing... But no solo.

The main purpose of this blog is to vex Christina. She was going to blog and couldn't due to crappy internet. So I am seizing the moment to get even further ahead of her. Ha. I am such a nice person.

But after the music festival we went out to eat. We sat on the floor and made soup on our table. Basically. They put a pot on a burner, put some yellow liquid in it and let it boil. Then brought a whole heap of veggies to put in it. Things like lettuce, spinach, mushrooms, onions, pumpkin and tofu. So we cooked that first. After that got good and soggy we all ate it, with some fire sauce. Then the next thing was to cook more veggies but this time add frozen beef. I have never eaten beef, until tonight. Peer pressure I guess. The meat comes in a roll, frozen and red. You put a role into the boiling veggie water and it turns brown and gets wrinkly. Then you fish it out with chopsticks and eat it with the veggies and fire sauce. So we did that for a while. Then the next thing was noodles, in the leftover veggie and beef water. They were pretty good. Once we ate most of the noodles, leftover beef and veggie particles there was hardly any liquid left. Then it was time for a rice goulash. Rice with some onions and an egg, thrown into the pot, water added and then mixed till most of the water evaporated and you are left with rice and goo. And then you mix fire sauce with that and eat it. Yum.

Fire sauce = Chili sauce that sets my mouth on FIRE.

It was a pretty cool process. My friend Lucy, who is also a teacher, helped me through the steps. Explaining what to do and then getting me a fork when my chopstick skills started to fail. I am not very good with the chopsticks yet. She was also super sweet and kept the Kimchi far away from me. I do loathe Kimchi.

That's it for now I think

I hope you all have/had a wonderful Sabbath =)

Michelle