May 23, 2011

Today was C3. We talked about agrarian and horticultural societies in sociology today, and we learned how to tell time and the months and the seasons in Spanish class. We then had a presentation for Engineering a New Tomorrow (ENT) on water and infrastructure. After that it was dinnertime and I tried something called Callaloo soup. This was something that I had heard about on the Cosby Show oddly enough (I was kind of addicted to that show for a while). I have heard that it is a Caribbean delicacy. I also heard from a native Trinidadian that Callaloo soup is typically a bit spicy, but what I had tonight wasn’t at all. It had all sorts of fresh vegetables in some type of broth. I can barely even describe it, but it was really good. I tried to do some work outside today, but it was WAY too hot for me. I couldn’t handle it. I had to go inside to finish my work. After dinner I met up with my group for our ENT project, it was a bit awkward at first because I had no idea what one of the people in my group looked like. We discussed where we were from, and the other girl in my group was from a really small town in Kentucky and the boy in my group was from a small town in North Carolina. While we were talking we were comparing stories about Tractor Supply Company. What a country thing to do!! We decided that we were going to work on a project about sustainable tourism and how that could help some of the economies in places where we are going to visit. We then had pre-port. That is where you learn all about the place that you are going to visit. We learned about the culture and what not to eat and drink, and where not to go. We also learned about landsickness (where you get sick on the land because you still feel like you are moving even though you are on level ground).