Sunday, May 03, 2009

State of mind: airconditioned

Thought I'd take advantage of the brain activity freshly activated after 2 hours in an airconditioned (too cold really) movie theater and write a few sentences...about recent happenings and discoveries....
1. I have for quite some time thought that it is very time and energy consuming to mail a postcard...as there are about 3 post offices in this town and I have to drive to get to them with the car I don't have and I dont know when they're open + it takes about 5 weeks for it to arrive at their final destination..etc etc..but today, all of a sudden - I found a little card-selling shop in the shopping centre which had: cards, stamps AND a mailbox! I mean really, this place can sometimes be so effective! Love it!
2. Lunch Tuesday: rice, beans, salad, chicken and a drink = 30 cordobas ($1,50)
Coffee today: Ice mocca.....46 cordobas (almost $2,50)
Bus from Managua to Granada (1 hour): 23 cordobas (a dollar and a bit)
Taxi from shopping centre to my house (5 minutes...after dark, no choice): 40 cordobas ($2)
......have a think about it.....
3. What made my day on the 1st of May: buying two plastic shelf arrangements for my walk-past closet and bathroom...yes, small joys of everyday life...1st of May celebrations were cancelled due to the famous pigflu so we ended up at Central-America's biggest and apparently most dangerous(I was armed with scruffy clothes and money in my bra..) roof covered market to buy a much longed for plastic drawers/shelfs to organise my underwear, socks and bathroom items...yes..it seriously made my day...!!!
4. Even though I've been sligthly worried, I have now confirmed that I am not getting dumber by the second or loosing brain cells at a rapid speed ... many fellow norsemen (counting the Danes) are experiencing the same symptoms...short and long term memory loss, fatigue, lack of energy, inability to have a coherent conversation, sensation of brain freeze...HOWEVER...in Managua it is called brain melt...apparently my brain and body do not have the same functions available at 35 degrees celcius + a ridiculous level of humidity...it is seriously frustrating, but something which I suppose we have to get to used to...and gives me an explanation to why I in the middle of a sentence forget what I am talking about...it's an utavdeisjølopplevelese!!!! (out-of-yourself-experience)

However...I am now back in my little house and the great feeling of a brain at a decent temperature is about to wear off...slowly but surely going back to my half-concious state of hot-melted-brain unable to connect...

BIIIIP!!Connection failed...check with you service provider for a solution to this problem....might not be solved for a while...

(Off to Pueblo Nuevo in the north of the country for a few days now..will be back with foto documentation and more stories...)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hola Kari,

"Korleis star det til?" (Hum, det veit eg jo eigentleg, sidan du skriver ein blog).

"Leser at hjernen din har smelta." (Hum, det blir liksom ikkje heilt rett det heller.)

"Liker a lese bloggen din Kari. Det er artig a vete kva du sysler tida med." (Ah, det var betre).

Dei kvardagslege noteringane er morro, sjolv om eg ogsa er nyfiken pa det store bilete. Gler meg til a stoppe innom framover.

Eg har stranda i Canada, og trives med det. Blogger litt for a halde skrotten i live, men driver med lite almenn nyttige aktivitetar i desse dagar. Hausten byr derimot pa videre studier, og det blir morro.

Cheers,
Kent

ida said...

Hei Kari! Dette var gøy! Jeg skal følge med på bloggen din framover:)
Klemmer fra Ida