Naguara! Chevre!

I´ve spent another week working on the farm, we have started a fourth greenhouse and have been working on putting up the plastic covering on the second greenhouse. I have learned that the first two greenhouses will be used to grow a ton of green peppers and tomatoes. Other then that, not much new but here´s a peek into my experience in this part of Venezuela.

So here´s some of the things I encounter daily here.

First some words

Naguara, Chevre- slang words to similar to ¨cool¨ or ¨sweet¨

Buenas - basically the equivelant of saying ¨whats up¨ but instead of asking the question you skip to just saying ¨ït´s good¨

Foods

Empanadas- the most prominent food to buy in town by far, more common then a cheesburger in the US. Fried dough pockets filled with shredded meat, cheese, ham, or black beans

Polar Ice- the main beer brand and sometimes I think the only one. There is at least one alcohol store or bar on every block.

Eurepa- Pockety of dough, eat it plain, cut it and use it as a sandwich, break it into soup, scoop your spaghetti onto it, on the farm we eat them with every meal. Outsidide of the farm they don´t seem to be very common.

Juice- wonderful fruit juice everywhere of many different kinds, Im gonna miss it

Chimo- sort of like chewing tobacco, but is more like a tar. Looks disgusting to me but I am told it is much less disgusting than chewing tobacco and it is place on the roof of the mouth.

Pabellon- awesome meal that has a little of everything; rice, plantains, eggs, shredded meat, beans. Awesomness on a plate


A trip into town...

Sometimes we take a taxi, other times we just hitch a ride on the back of a pickup truck , sometime the taxi is the back of a pickup truck.

Along the streets theres always tons of stands selling burned cd´s and dvd´s. You can find american movies 5 or 6 to a dvd for very cheap.

Music thats popular in america that have found many people to know here: BOB MARLEY, the beatles, 50 cent.

Popular music here is Reggaetone, Salsa, and Merangue

In town theres lots of graffiti on the walls of buildings, mosty with political statements in stupport of Chavez or against. Sometimes there will be art and I have also seen graffiti for the support of palestine.

Misiones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivarian_Missions

These are a big part of the politics and community down here. I have encountered a couple groups of kids who were working for some of the missions. Lately I´ve haves seen the addition of public trash cans with Mision Ribas written on them. This made me very happy because the trash system here is in need of improvement. Especially on the main roads theres is alot of trash on the sides of the street.

Almost all of the light bulbs here are energy efficient bulbs. Chavez helped to start a program to distributre these bulbs to the public in replacement of the old ones.

There seems to be some problems with the electricity here. It will go out randomly with much more frequency than in the US. While we were at the beach there was no electricity in that area,for 2 days.

Motorcycles are everywhere, everywhere. Also cell phones are a big deal. Motorcycles and nice Cell Phones I would say are the materlistic things kids really want.

College is free here. sweetness

O, and alot of people my age in the coutry are married and have a kid. This is different in town and in the city.
Can´t think of anymore randomness for now, peace out!