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i kept forgetting/putting off posting and now i mostly forget, but here goes.
there was this girl from germany, isabel, doing a wwoof (willing workers on organic farms) thing at our farm. she's on a working holiday to western canada. she stayed for about week and a half, then left. i drove her to the bus stop so she could go to victoria. while we were saying goodbye and waiting for her bus, i gave her my number so that we could go out for dinner the next day, on her last night (last sunday) because she was travelling by herself and had mentioned that it was nice to be on your own for sight seeing but sucked at night time. so cael and i took her out for chinese food. she had never had it before because her parents are "very german" and against eating foods from other cultures. she said that once she tried to take her parents out for chinese and they wouldn't go and told her that they ate rats in china. anyways, she loved it and has decided that when she gets back home she's forcing her parents to go to every foreign food restaurant in their town. after dinner we walked all the way to the beacon hill drive in. we walked throught the park and saw about 15 peacocks just hanging around the petting zoo. she had never seen one close up and was quite nervous. then cael, being cael, started to make up stories about how they could smell the leftovers from our dinner (which she was holding) and were going to chase after her. then he went on about how peacocks were just like the raptors in jurassic park and they hunted in packs, had huge teeth and claws, etc. not knowing any better, she sort of believed him. we got very close to some of them and they were a little spooked and started flying. isabel nearly died because she didn't know they could fly. i know it doesn't sound super funny in the retelling, but trust me, it was hilarious--mostly because even though i told her (between fits of laughing) that she shouldn't believe a word cael says, she thought he just might be telling the truth. other highlights of the evening included trying to describe what a squid was, and telling her about how on the day she had left the farm, one of the boys told us how he had killed a rat that day by stomping on it. hmmm, those don't sound particularly funny either. they were at the time. so, long story short, isabel is very cool to hang out with and i had one of the best evenings i've had in a long time. she has invited us to visit her in germany and promises that she will take us out partying in cologne and feed us schnitzel (she was very surprised that we had even heard of it before).