Miscellaneous stuff

I realize I have been writing a lot more in my Spanish blog. I don't want to force stories to come out in English, though. Rather than waiting for a long, coherent story to pop up in my head, I am going to include today some miscellaneous and random notes from the past few days.

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Failing French: so far, little luck breaking the writing in French barrier. I had been forcing myself to think and write in French, instead of taking notes in Spanish, writing in English, and then translating to French. No luck. I was getting nowhere with a report for the garden until I gave up in French and wrote it in English. Phew. Done now. A friend lend me his translator and now I will revise and correct the obvious and give it back to my secret helper to make sure it's properly written.

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Bad culinary choices: Last Saturday was a bad day food-wise. First, I made the mistake of eating salad in the sun. The salad dressing had some lemon and now I like I'm beginning to grow a mustache. Later the same day we went for pastries at the one place where they prepare cake filling like my childhood's bakery. I got greedy so instead of asking for the tried and true cake, I went for a different one that looked fatter. I was hoping to get the maximum cream filling for my bucks. Big mistake. The filling was whipped cream and not the egg and sugar thing I was hoping for. A friend ended up eating it.

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What a trivial post. Better put add some anthropology.

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I got word from the university and all's fine and well, KUL folks are the nicest most helpful people. Now I need to start working on the 20 pages I need to present in less than 3 months............................aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

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SfAA 2008, Memphis
I hope all the anthros are still on board for Memphis. Registration is open, BTW. If you want to organize a session, like we discussed some weeks ago, let's get started.

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My Belgian sister and beautiful sobrinita are a few days away from their trip to Guate. I cannot wait for them to see my country. I'm sorry I won't be there to share the fun, but I'm sure it won't be the last time :)

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The last Harry fan: I have a feeling I will be the last Harry fan to get to read book 7. I am extremely grateful to Françoise, who will buy it for me and then drive to Bruno's town close to Brussels to drop it off. Bruno will kindly bring Harry along my KUL paperwork. I plan to buy a dozen or more bags of bugles (nacho flavor), diet coke, and the other basic foods to fully enjoy Deathly Hallows.

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A couple of weeks ago we attended a concert at Halle de la Gombe (same place we go for Friday Chicken). It was a wonderful concert organized by some very dedicated folks here in Kin. I took several mini-clips. Here is one of them. Claudia, can you figure out what they're saying?



My favorite singer was the girl with the bell. She looked so happy!



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Random information I can certainly help you with...like the country code for Panamá. Being Latina I should know these things, right? 507. I love those random questions about things all Latinos should know. the only comment I do not like very much is when people tell me that I don't look Guatemalan. Fortunately here in the Congo most people do not know much about Guatemala, so I don't get that very often.