Meals

Another majorly different thing here. For starters they normally eat every meal out and rarely cook themselves, if you could see the kitchen you wouldn't want to cook either. So They order a big dinner and everyone gets a plate of rice and you take what you want off the main dishes and eat it with your rice. The leftovers are then kept on the table sometimes covered but mainly not where they get cold and then are served for breakfast and lunch the next day. I have trouble just getting myself to eat breakfast of toast or cereal in the U.S. I'm just not hungry when I wake up. Here that is the least of my problems I am served cold meat and fish from the night before to eat for breakfast. Sometimes I get to make toast with the pineapple jam we bought! But mainly it's cold leftovers from the night before. My host mother did buy a pancake mix and sometimes the maid attempts but when it comes to me it looks like it stuck to the pan and was just scraped into a ball and put onto my plate. It taste's fine but doesn't get fully cooked and the maid sits there and watches me eat it, this gets very annoying. Saturday morning I woke up and the maid had cut a carrot up for me, this was to be my breakfast and I forced it down and then at 10 she served the leftovers and then at noon she made fried rice and then a snack before dinner. All of this she insisted on watching me eat even though I tried to express to her that I wasn't hungry at all. She still doesn't get it and to be honest her presence always makes me a little worried. So I gave my host mother some hostess gifts including a bag of wild rice soup mix. She said OOO I will make it tomorrow and I was excited well I wake up and she has a bowl of it sitting on the table. I just laughed and explained to her that we normally have toast or cereal or eggs for breakfast and soup, salad or sandwich for lunch and meat or fish or Minnesota casserole for dinner. We had a good laugh and I attempted to eat it for breakfast. I'm slowly but surely adjusting!