Food!

I'm sure everyone was waiting for me to talk about food since i am so easily excited by it so here i go. So we are given breakfast and dinner here at the Residencia and so far breakfast has consisted of some strange ham sort of thing, cheese, rolls and pineapple. It gets old quick but hey, food is food right? Dinner on the other hand is delicious! Milady, the cook here at the residencia, makes the best black beans in the world! We usually have an assortment of sides like tomatoes, slaw, carrots, beets and the sort and then unless we have spaghetti, there is rice and some sort of meat dish. it's so good. 

For lunch we have been going to a variety of places but today we found one that takes monedas nacionales (This might be a good time to explain the whole currency situation. So we use CUCs which is the currency you can exchange dollars for but the people who live here are paid their wages in Monedas Nacionales [mn] so 1cuc = 24mn and 1$ = .90cuc). So this place is 30mn for a plate of rice and beans together (called morros y cristianos, Moores and Christians, or as we call it religious conflict, hehe) some fried sweet potato thing, slaw and bistek de puerco. It was delicious and affordable so it may or may not be our new spot for lunch. There was some talk about possibly getting a sandwich place to deliver lunch to us daily since we aren't given a lunch break and we are usually starving after class but judging from the other plans el profe has made that probably won't happen until mid february. 

For the most part everything is cheap, even when we go out for lunch we spend maybe 5cuc so it's not bad. The rum is like 5cuc for 1liter and it is the most amazing rum i've ever had. They also sell these fried chicken balls that they call albóndigas for .10cuc a piece.

I love food.

Oh did I mention the coffee here is delicious too? Because it is. Maria and Milady take really good care of us. the residencia is gorgeous, it overlooks the malecon. Well it's almost 4 and it's day 2 of power 90. some girls and i are doing this work out video i bought a few years ago. It's supposed to be an in-home boot camp for a complete body make over so:

jANUARY 12, probably 180lbs, and work out day #2 (Bridget Jones reference).

Peace Y'all.