Last Season

Hey Everybody!

We are getting to the last season – last time to hang out with the friends I’ve made here, last classes, last Friseur, etc. I’m not really a fan of this season. It makes me sad. There are some good things though – knowing that it’s the last time for these things make them sweeter.

This past Saturday Blake, Kate, Maria, and I met up for our last time eating Trinidadian food together. Trini food has become a favorite with us and this was especially good (and especially spicy!). Maria was the lead chef and the rest of us were her sous chefs. We chopped vegetables mostly. We feasted on curried chicken (and curried fish for Kate, our pescatarian), curried mango, rice, potatoes & chickpeas, and mashed pumpkin (my favorite). For dessert, apricot & mango ice cream. It was really, really delicious. Nothing particularly special or that sticks out – just another fun night with friends. Tonight is really our last night cooking – Blake is going to lead us in Southern food.

It was the last week for classes and I wasn’t too sad about that. I was sad to say good-bye to Prof. Dr. Boris Barth, my favorite professor here. He’s a German historian and is wonderful to learn with. He really challenges students to make them think. I did get a chance to spend time with him one last time though. On Wednesdays there is a mandatory speaker that all the Intercultural Humanities and Modern Global History students have to attend. After the speaker everyone, the profs and the students, go out for dinner together. I ended up sitting next to Prof. Barth and we talked about family, Kentucky, and other stuff. It was fun and a nice way to say goodbye to the semester.

My friends and I have the habit of going to the on-campus café after every class and Thursday it was our last time there (unless we make a special trip back to camps). It was just the same as always, discussing our childhoods (there are some surprising international cartoons – everyone knows about the smurfs), class, philosophical issues, and all that jazz. I did remember my camera and got pictures.

Now begins the paper writing season in earnest. I’ve already started two of my three papers and I think I just may have a topic for my third. I have high hopes (i.e. delusions) of getting all the papers written before my mom comes to visit on 26 May.

I hope all is peachy keen with you!

Love,
Elizabeth

Kate bits into the mango

Kate assists Blake in the cutting of the mango

Cooking always uses every counter space we can find

Gathered 'round the table in the Blue House

Yummy Trini food!

The Friseur, our beloved on campus cafe

Sidra, Blake, and Maria

Kate, me, and Tankut hanging out