Names

People's names in this country are so interesting to me- there are some very common names that when you translate them to English just seem a bit strange. I've been told many people name their children based on the pregnancy, and by that calculation I feel very bad for many women of my town...
Hilaria (hilarious), Mercia (mercy), Faztudo (does everything), Crimildo (criminal), Miseria (misery), Lembranca (remembrance), Inocencio(innocence), Narcisio (narcissist), Facilio (easy), Silencio (silence), Salva (salvation)... and those are just some of my students...

Delicacy

I was invited to eat lunch today with my director, ped directors, and the directors of classes (grades). I assumed it'd be a normal lunch at the cafeteria- wrong. The school had purchased an entire cow to feed the students- very rare. Well, today’s lunch was to eat the head. Yeah… I wasn’t really sure which part of the head we were going to eat, so I was slightly hesitant, but when they brought out a tongue I felt a bit better. Granted, the tongue, like a cats tongue, has all sorts of texture to it- tastebuds and whatnot- somewhat hard to get down. When they brought around a Tupperware of mystery meat, unfortunately I didn’t have the strength (gumption?) to take any more. They tried to feed me a chunk with long, wiry black hairs on it but I passed. Needless to say, it made the rabbit brains I once saw being sucked from the skull seem like no big deal.