A Special Treat

[emo_snal]

   Continuing the posting of scenes from the memoir...

Day 7 - A Special Treat
Sunday, February 19th, 2012 - “We’ve got a special treat for you!” Hattrick tells me excitedly in the car as we roll through the thonging traffic of the city. “We’re going to make amala

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[pondhopper]

It's a good thing I'm not adverse to eating most things though I do draw the line at Nordic fermented fish that has been buried in the ground. But I do love fresh fish and seafood which made it infinitely easier for me to adapt to Spain.

I was suffering with you as you ate that dish, though. So good description!

[emo_snal]

Haha I've never tried the "rancid shark" of iceland but I've certainly heard of it. I'm usually willing to try fish dishes but inevitably I usually don't like them .... though oddly I don't mind fish and chips - if the fish has been deep fried it becomes bearable (:

[bleodswean]

I loved this installment. It's nice to hear the people you shared your time with. I would not recommend ever ever grouping things to suit the writing thematically. A simple few words along the lines of...A few evenings after the fish amala meal Hattrick prepared for us, we all went out to a "Western" restaurant.....

I think you're wise to not dwell on the terrible conditions of that zoo. You could be brutally honest, as you are here, in a nice compact paragraph. Sounds like that entire day was a bit nauseating. :(

[emo_snal]

The zoo was chosen really because they asked me what I wanted to do on the free day and I was like "see some African animals?" I really wish I had asked to go to a cultural/historical museum that would have been an infinitely better use of my time.

And as to hearing about the people I shared my time with I am rather thinking of ways I can insert them more I think because I agree it's good to have them in there. There were more times we hung out but it's a question of fitting it into the narrative.

[interes2012]

you are so sensitive