Greetings from Guatemala, well actually Honduras for the moment. I´ve crossed the boarder to check out some ruins here in the infamous Copan, ok maybe not imfamous but something along those lines.
After visiting some coffee farmers last week with Equal Exchange I´ve gotten away for a week to explore Guatemala some. I´m pretty excited to be here. The weather is beautiful and all is well.
I got a fish the other day at a restaurant and they brought the whole thing out so when I got to the end I asked the waiter if normal people ate that there and he said, ¨if you want to.¨ Which definitely wasn´t clear enough for me so when I forced the issue he told me that some Guatemalans did eat it, including the eye, but most gringos did not. Since I wanted to be stronger than most Gringos I decided to take a stab at it...I mean literally, but when I did it´s mouth opened and I just couldn´t do it. I just kept staring at it and I couldnt get over how discusting it was to eat a fish´s brain so I gave up and submitted to my mental block.
sad, maybe next time I´ll have more courage, although I still don´t know about the eye.
One other thing is that I got electrocuted in the shower the other day since they don´t have much warm water here and it was an electrical head which heats it and I mistakenly hit and caused a terrible electrical chock that passed through my arm to my entire body. I guess it´s part of the adventure but I´m just saying, appreciate what you got with your warm water no electrocution showers up in the Global North
