Birthdays and Crabs

I went to my first birthday party here on Thursday. It was for my project partners twins, they turned 18. The girl, Lina, is my "best" friend here, she helps me out a lot and she's taking English courses, so I help her a lot as well. The party was a surprise, and it was really fun. Then, they decided to play a game. The game was this: a person read strips of paper that had things people had to perform on them, mostly dancing. For example, one of them was for the twins to dance with eachother, one was for my project partner to dance with his daughter. Then there were things like, the people wearing glasses or red shirts, or things like this. There was one that said, the person with the lightest hair, by default, me. Then there was one about the person with the straightest hair, again, me. I wiggled my way out of that one, but it was a little humiliating.

Then, my host brother got crabs from the river for us to eat. They are small, but good. We cooked the whole thing and then, ate it. First, trying to crack those suckers open with no tools was hard. Then, once you did get them open, the shells aren't like ocean crabs and you'd get little pieces of shell everywhere, like sand. Then, after you eat the legs, you tear into the body. It was at this point that my host brother realized my crab was carrying baby crabs in her tail. At first he was like, "that sucks that we killed all those babies", then, he was like, "but you're lucky because you get to eat them". HA! I was not about to eat a bunch of baby crabs that looked like head-lice. So, he did. It was nasty. Then, I busted the body apart and ate the meat on the inside. He asked me why I wasn't eating the rest, meaning the guts and fatty stuff, I said, I refused to eat that but he could help himself....and he did. My stomache had turned by then and I was done eating crab for the night, but we still have a lot of crabs left to cook. Plus, he is going to get some people together to go crab hunting one night, so that should be fun.

Until next time...