I've had a good week this week, some rain, some thunder, mostly hot days and nights and no working in the mornings! I had some good and strange eating experiences this week...
Last Saturday I went to a Chinese restaurant, I was firstly surprised that they didn't sell pizza OR pasta and then moved on to order some food including spring rolls, beef and bamboo and of course, a must when visiting a Chinese restaurant in Sicily, deep fried frogs legs! We got these to share; I was there with Luisa, Pippi, Stuart, Mark and Lisa, but the others were less eager to eat them. I thought they tasted mostly of the batter they were fried in, were a bit boney for my liking but the meat tasted of nothing realy... just like chicken!!! We had deep fried ice cream for desert and I couldn't really tell the difference!
The week at work was really good, we have finished working in the state schools now so my mornings are free, I have slept, been shopping, gone for 'coffee': which for me means tea and been out in the sun in the mornings this week instead of walking for an hour to have large groups of teenagers ignore me (actually I miss some of them, they were interesting and some classes were a pleasure to teach).
On Friday we went, as usual, to Ligresti bar and I had a few drinks (Southern Comfort not gin this weekend) and then we (Stuart, Mark and I) decided to go into the town centre for food and more drinks, we were a bit too late to go to a restaurant and I fancied a kebab (they are nice here, not like in England!)but instead we went to a small place which sells fish and chips! Yes, we ate fish and chips with salt, vinegar and ketchup in Catania! We then met some Italians, one of who is Stuart's student and they took us to a nice bar where we had cocktails.
On Saturday, I went to the beach, the local black, rocky beach where there is more dog shit than sand, but it is the closest place to go and enjoy the sun so we went there! It was relaxing and so lovely to be sunbathing in a bikini on the 1st of May! After the beach Stuart and I went out for dinner, we went to a fish restaurant where the first thing the waiter said to us when we entered was 'only fish' (in Italian), we had understood that it was a fish restaurant so we continued..
We had an antipasta of fish, squid, octopus, prawns and bread (lush) and then I had spaghetti with clams, prawns, tomato and zucchini (amazing but too much). However, there was a bit of a problem I got a fish bone stuck in my throat, right in the back of my throat. I was coughing and it really hurt, I went to the toilet to see if I could do something about it, like maybe make myself sick (which I can't and couldn't do!) but it wouldn't move, I tried to gargle with water and wine, I tried to swallow huge mouthfulls of spaghetti to dislodge it but nothing worked at all (poor Stuart, he offered to try and get it out too), anyway, I left it and hoped for the best. I woke up this morning and it is fine! I did however dream that my garden was flooded with water and loads of sea creatures were stranded there, octopus', fish and stuff and I had to rescue them! Never had a fish dream before!
Today, Sunday, I have been to the beach for most of the day, I enjoyed looking at the people there, one man in particular who obviously didn't want white marks from his small, small trunks so had them rolled down exposing most of his ass! And one woman who had a similar problem to one I had at Easter, she was at the beach in the boiling sun with no bikini, so she just stripped down to her underwear... I was pleased it is not just me!
All in all a good week full of sun and seafood (do frogs count as seafood?)
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