Friday, June 19, 2009

Happier note

Sorry guys, but that last update was just too depressing, haha.  And, as anyone who really knows me knows, I cannot leave well enough alone and end with things on a bad note.  

Today, I ate at this place called the Eastern Foods Bazaar.  It is this hallway of small booths where you can get different kinds of Indian and/or Chinese food.  The process you go about getting your food is really complicated, however.  So, first you walk up and down the Bazaar and look at the menus and decide what you want.  There is a menu above each station.  After you have decided, you go down to the cashier, which is located in the center of the Bazaar.  You tell them what you want, you pay, and they give you a receipt for each order.  You then take that receipt to the different booths with the menus above them.  Oh, did I mention that the menus don't actually correlate to what each booth serves?  No?  Well, they don't haha.  There were six booths on the left side of the Bazaar, and Matt and I went to each one, showing our tickets and each one told us it was to the right.  We finally went to the booth to the right of the cashier, a booth we'd never even seen before that had a menu for sweet and sour chicken and other Chinese food, and gave them our tickets.  They, in return, gave us curry.  It's like going to McDonald's and finding out they actually only serve Taco Bell, despite having a menu for McDonald's, haha.  So, Matt and I wandered around, thoroughly pissing everyone off who knew how the system worked because we kept cutting in line to thrust our tickets to the wrong chef, and finally made it to the right place.  Oh the joy of being a tourist, haha.

Also on a happier note, Matt and I have finished two townships!  Two!!  Two townships in two days!  Sounds like a Dr. Seuss story.  Anyway, we have successfully visited and documented twenty-one sites over the past two days.  As I said before, in our previous two days out, we were able to document four total.  Our productivity has gone up over 500%!  Woot woot!

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