Day 33

Today was a slow relaxing day. I caught up on some emails and played some basketball and some catch with some kids at the college. Basketball is huge here because of Yao Ming so you see news stories about him constantly since he decided to retire. Baseball on the other hand is basically nonexistent so playing catch is not very common. Miranda, the English teacher from St Paul, bought the gloves and ball and she is teaching the kids how to play. It still amazes me how many opportunities we have in the country side in the states. For supper Miranda cook some chicken for me. She said she had a bunch of it because she helped butcher some of the experimental ones and she got to take a bunch home. Don’t worry it was only a feed gain study. :P Although it was weird knowing it was from a trial. This did give me a few more firsts; I tried a chicken foot, tongue and head. The tongue was not worth eating, the foot was alright, it was like eating cartilage or a very chewy tough piece of meat. The head was an adventure; it took a lot of work for the meat, although the brain was decent, once again small though. The chickens are not nearly as big as the ones in the states though. The university actually spent 15 years trying to breed a smaller chicken so that it would fit in a pot easier.