MANGOS.

I feel inclined to write a post about mangos because they are now a very large part of my life.

I eat 6 to 10 mangos a day, not even kidding. They are small though, and stringy, so when you cut up 3 or 4 its maybe how much fruit you’d get from a large mango back in the states. Mangos were already one of my favorite foods to eat back at home, I’d splurge and buy them when they were on special at Whole Foods; 10 mangos for $10, so good! Well here they grow on trees right in my back yard and its awesome! So far I have made mango chutney, mango salsa, mango curry…and I eat mangos for breakfast, for snack and after dinner as dessert. There are always plenty of mangos to go around. The kids that live around my house come by everyday to raid the mango trees of their ripest fruits…everyone here loves mangos. Today while I was running I met a guy who was walking into town with a basket of mangos on his head, he tried to give me a bunch but I just took two and explained I didn’t want to carry them. He smiled and said okay but then I felt dumb…because he had to carry them all too.

The end.

Tomorrow I start work! Well kind of, I am meeting with the other English teacher at the school so we can coordinate or schedule and start planning the curriculum. So far I know that I will be teaching 11th grade, and then next year I will teach 12th grade, this way I can work with the same group of students both years, COOL. Hopefully there won’t be too many troublemakers because I’ll be stuck with them for 2 years :)