Monday, February 1, 2010

Don't cry for me Argentina

That was the only title I could think of involving Argentina. Tomorrow and Wednesday I'm hosting 2 Argentinian girls here. It should be an adventure, to say the least. I'm being very adventurous in my cooking for them- I haven't been much of a cook since moving over here. Tomorrow I'm attempting Spaghetti Bolognese not from a jar or a bag, and I already made Pomegranate Ice Cream tonight for tomorrow's dessert. Which- by the way- is quite difficult. At least when it involves juicing pomegranates with a quite small lemon juicer. But hey, I have now juiced Pomegranates. Bolognese can't be harder than that, right? I'm also going to make burgers and mac cheese on Wednesday night-- all from fresh ingredients. Let's see how this goes...

Unfortunately, I also happened to mention to the teacher organizing this whole thing that I have a decent background in Spanish, so trying to talk to the girls would be fun. He took that to mean that I'm fluent and able to translate. So guess who's the team translator! Oh, yeah, me. ugh. I haven't had Spanish since freshman year at Baylor!

So be praying all of this goes well and that the team doesn't particularly need translating. And that I don't freeze to death sleeping on my sofa.