Grape Nut flavored ice cream

How do some foods get invented, and then become popular? Today´s example is grape nut flavored ice cream. It is exactly what it sounds like- vanilla ice cream with grape nuts in it. Not very good, but somehow immensely popular here. Odder still is the fact that nobody eats grape nuts cereal.

Why?

Enough on the food. Later this week we will swear in as volunteers. Everyone is ready, though there is definitely an undercurrent of nervousness and trepidation. We will go from being told about stuff in english in a group setting to having to teach it alone in spanish with locals. It will be interesting.

But before that, we are finally going to the beach. We have been in this skinny, coastal country for over two months, and have not even dipped our feet in the ocean. That is wrong. We are tired of training, tired of being always on someone else's schedule for eating and doing everything, tired of the heat. So getting to our site will be welcome.

Once we are there, this thing may not be updated for a while- the 4 hour or longer chiva ride between our site and the nearest computer is a bit of a hindrance. Plus, we are planning on not leaving for the first month, to better assimilate into Chitra. So adios for now, we will be back online with tales and pics sometime in late august or september.

, not quite chitra, but our site looks just like this. Tough! much better than the imprisonment of training!