Wednesday, August 23, 2006

dog for lunch



Normally for lunch and dinner here we have rice, dahl, and some sort of potato. A couple of times a week we try to have some sort of meat, like fish, beef, pork, or chicken. The Northeast is very different from the other parts of India in that the people really love all sorts of meat here.
Today we had dog meat for lunch. I've already had it a couple of times and so I didn't have any, but you should have seen the faces of all of the staff and students here. Beverely said that their faces were glowing like angels, and sher too tried it for the first time. For dinner they had the intestines and brain. They put the brain and other parts inside the stomach and cook it, and then eat with rice. It's really true.

It was a bit tough I heard, even though we cooked it for over 3 hours. Everyone began joking that it must have been the defender of Happy Valley and in very good shape, so it wasn't very soft.

We really have so many neat people here right now and our days keep flying by like crazy.