_Ketchup, with meat!_
Today was the day I ran around trying to buy gifts to bring home with me (AHHHH I'm leaving sooooo soon!). It actaully went pretty well, a crazed sunday spent in the market much like the one christy and I had a few months back. Except I managed to do it with out getting trapped like a rat behind locked gates in a maze of stalls.
It was hard trying to figure out what kind of things I wanted people at home to have as phisical evidence that Nicaragua exists.
I ended up getting mostly toursity things, shirts, candy, hammocks, and so on. I tried to rember that cultural significance of the things that I bought. Hopeing that the hail mary mashmallows would bring there recipeinets some understanding of life here. But, the things I really want to bring back are all the sentimental sappy things that are impossible to carry. Dusty feeling skin, the super strong smells of the market, the not as strong but often just as offensive smells of the streets, the sounds of the vendors carrying baskets on their heads, and the egrets flying back to the lake right before sunset everyday.
Oh well, I'll just have to settle for showing people photos and giving them packets of oddly flavored ketchup.
It was hard trying to figure out what kind of things I wanted people at home to have as phisical evidence that Nicaragua exists.
I ended up getting mostly toursity things, shirts, candy, hammocks, and so on. I tried to rember that cultural significance of the things that I bought. Hopeing that the hail mary mashmallows would bring there recipeinets some understanding of life here. But, the things I really want to bring back are all the sentimental sappy things that are impossible to carry. Dusty feeling skin, the super strong smells of the market, the not as strong but often just as offensive smells of the streets, the sounds of the vendors carrying baskets on their heads, and the egrets flying back to the lake right before sunset everyday.
Oh well, I'll just have to settle for showing people photos and giving them packets of oddly flavored ketchup.