I Ate Brains for Dinner

Lately I have not had the energy, time, or motivation to keep my blog as up to date as I'd like it to be. There has been a going on with Expomodels and I've been struggling to bring my grades to a 90+ average as per my Grandfather's orders. Demands may be a better word here, as if I do not maintain high grades the Grandfather pulls his support quicker than a Democratic in office would pull out of Iraq.

In other news- Rafeal Correa, esteemed President of Ecuador and Defender of the People, has decided that the country will abandon the Dollar and go back to the Sucre within a month. Words fail to express how stupid this move is.

In other more random news- I ate brains for dinner. No, really. Just five minutes ago I ate brain omelet. It wasn't bad, but neither was it good. My firm belief that God intended Man to eat the muscles of animals and nothing else still stands. The whole time I was chewing the brains, this song kept playing in my head and I can't seem to get rid of it, so I will share it will all of you. I'm hoping that this works like The Ring does and after I make you all listen to it I will be free of its terrible grasp.

Falling on Dogs

I have a new friend. She is probably the most innocent person in all of Ecuador and a so sweet you'll get a toothache just talking to her. Text messages from her are always in English and always funny, here's a more recent one, word-for-word, errors and all. She does speak surprisingly good English but...there is definitely room for improvement.

Today is such a horrible day, the bus i had to take didn't stop, an old man yelled me, and i fell on a dog in front of a lot of people! I'm not going to encourage u a lot to this...but have a nice day jaja there's always someone who's worse than u jaja

When I first received this message, I could not stop laughing. How does one fall on a dog? I messaged her back to find out. She replied with this-

I didn't see it! I fell over with someone's leg and that poor animal was in front of me and PLAS!!! No one helped me, everybody was making fun of me =<

In South America words to describe crashing, hitting, or dropping something are different from those used in the United States. I would call them comical. PLAS!!! definitely fits that description as do some others. My favorite, though, is "DOOKETY!". A man may be describing how a car ran over his friend by using this word yet I will still laugh like crazy. I mean, how does any boom, bang, crack, or clank make a sound like "DOOKETY"? Really, I want to know.

On a more serious note, it seems my friend was holding a human leg when she fell. Guess she's not the sweet little bundle of innocence I thought she was.