This photo of the students' dorm CallaLily took while exercising some "creativity" with her new digital camera.
Thought for the day: cooking and measuring is not universal. I, CallaLily am on kitchen duty twice a week. We often bake cookes for "supper" which is around 9pm and consists of sweet munchies and hot drinks like milo (NZ rendition of hot chocolate). While baking these cookies, I'm reading from a local cookbook. It asks for ingredients that I've never heard of like brown syrup (a molasses type of liquid). And it requires ingredients by weight. So 200grams of butter instead of X number of cups. When I was measuring a gravy powder, the recipe called for 400grams of powder. But no where on the tin did it indicate how much volume of powder makes a gram! Luckily, the staff has a chart in one kitchen binder with some common weights of various dry ingredients so I took a middle range of powdery things and chose 110grams per cup volume. And it the gravy turned out all right in the end.
Here's a kiwiism for you. What is an "ankle biter?" The answer is not an insect or animal, but an annoying child! Figure that one out. How about this one "Good on ya"? that means congratulations in kiwi. Kiwi is the name for anything from New Zealand: the fruit, the birds, the people, and the local slang.
Good night. Tomorrow we're off an more adventures and creative activities.
AND BIG NEWS: we found out that our last two months we'll be in Thailand! Yippee.
4 comments:
nice... how on earth did you get switched (potentially) to thailand??
new zealand looks really really beautiful...
oh and BearHunter? you been working on Rope at all? or have you been too busy? maybe i'll write another chapter and email it to you if i have the time... hehehe.. :D anyway, can't wait till you get back!
Hi CallaLily!
Miss you around the pharmacy. Things just aren't the same without you. Lots of changes happening around there. Gorgeous pictures, and looks like you two are having a blast. Better descriptions than any National Geographic! I chopped off my hair - shorter than my shoulders! Hope to see you soon. Love, Barbie Lover ;-)
Thailand sounds like a great country to get your feet wet in. Do you have a specific project assigned as yet? Weather here is finally getting away from the rain and into more warmer weather.
We got your card for our anniversary and you were right it was the only one from New Zealand. Thank you ver much.
We went out to the Swiss House the following day. Had some of the dried beef from Switzerland we had not had in over 20 years. It was very good. Off to get the h
old house ready to go on the market.
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