Stupak Amendment Makes a Good Day Bad
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Meet & Greet
This is what 29 looks like -----> going going gone...
As usual a 24 hour frame to enjoy to your heart's (dis)content.
Thank you shiro for the text message early in the morning, it did make my day.
...aaand now we can all sing one.. two three... HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU....
lundi
High School Part III
Part I & Part II
For some reason, activities rotated around meal times and opportunities to eat.
I would love to believe that we were nourishing our bodies then but looking back I see we used to eat too much.
Breakfast consisted of two slices of buttered brown bread with tea. There were provisions for those that could not take tea leaves to make do with cocoa and we had bright students telling their doctors to write letters to the effect that they would drop dead any time tea came into contact with their lips never mind that they would be found gulping the same away from prying eyes.
Meal times were a spectacle in itself. The tradition in the school was to have student from different years to sit together in order to promote integration. Each table had 10 students and form ones had the responsibility of getting food from the kitchen as well as the plates and serving the food on all the plates. After the meals they had to carry plates to the kitchen for the cooks to wash and clean the table. Once in a while one would forget and the cooks would saddle the unwiped table with dirty plates for the one responsible to come and wash as punishment.
Tea time was a different affair with students queuing to get tea from a huge urn with a tap. Woe unto you if you came late and did not find any tea left. You would have to plead your case before an extremely skeptical cook who was trained to watch out for those that came for second helping. There was too, a particular size of cup ‘the destroyer’ which would mess up the number of cups served that day as it was two cups in one. The dining hall prefect had the responsibility to dispose of destroyers in a manner they deemed fit. Once in a while fights broke out and scalding occurred during the scramble for piping hot tea.
IÂ’m of the opinion that beans in all its variants is one of the easiest to cook especially to feed a large number of students, but do the meal planners think of the time they serve this delicacy?
Take for example our case we had rice and beans on Tuesdays and Thursdays for lunch (I can still remember this). It was a Herculean task staying awake for the rest of the day. Unfortunately too we would have one of the most boring teachers I have even met in my 16 years in school right after such a meal.
He would talk sotto voce for 80 minutes not caring if anyone was listening to him...it was a double lesson each being 40 min. The best part was, as soon as he walked out the sleep would walk away with him. We tried all sorts of tricks to stay awake from removing shoes and sweaters to lower the body temperature, to cello taping eyelids and washing the face with cold water without any success. Fifteen minutes into the lesson there would be only five out of thirty students awake the rest having succumbed to slumber. We shan't mention the gaseous emissions that proceeded to emanate from the various orifices of the sleeping parties.
I remember too drinking tap water without boiling it purifying it without any adverse effects, actually no one ever got sick from it. Once in a while there was drama in the dining hall like day the cooks served stale bread, which by the way was stinking to high heaven and they stood there expecting us to eat. The older students calmly staged a sit it and the school principal had to come and see for herself what we were grumbling about. She promptly got us fresh bread. Then there was the day someone found a sliced snail in her cabbage. Eeeeeeew!!! And did I mention the copious amount of weevils served regularly? As well as hair, fur and clipped nails that made its way into the the food?
School regulations included a statement to the effect that students were not allowed to eat in the dorms or something like that. Well, rules were made to be broken and break them we did.
Bread was the most important food and its absence from the tuck shop would get most student depressed for the rest of the day. The scramble for the same when it finally made its appearance was not for the faint hearted. Many ended up with serious injury in an effort to get "loaf". I have failed to fathom how I could eat three loaves of bread by myself then, and now I can only manage four slices at most.
Have a great bread free week.
For some reason, activities rotated around meal times and opportunities to eat.
I would love to believe that we were nourishing our bodies then but looking back I see we used to eat too much.
Breakfast consisted of two slices of buttered brown bread with tea. There were provisions for those that could not take tea leaves to make do with cocoa and we had bright students telling their doctors to write letters to the effect that they would drop dead any time tea came into contact with their lips never mind that they would be found gulping the same away from prying eyes.
Meal times were a spectacle in itself. The tradition in the school was to have student from different years to sit together in order to promote integration. Each table had 10 students and form ones had the responsibility of getting food from the kitchen as well as the plates and serving the food on all the plates. After the meals they had to carry plates to the kitchen for the cooks to wash and clean the table. Once in a while one would forget and the cooks would saddle the unwiped table with dirty plates for the one responsible to come and wash as punishment.
Tea time was a different affair with students queuing to get tea from a huge urn with a tap. Woe unto you if you came late and did not find any tea left. You would have to plead your case before an extremely skeptical cook who was trained to watch out for those that came for second helping. There was too, a particular size of cup ‘the destroyer’ which would mess up the number of cups served that day as it was two cups in one. The dining hall prefect had the responsibility to dispose of destroyers in a manner they deemed fit. Once in a while fights broke out and scalding occurred during the scramble for piping hot tea.
IÂ’m of the opinion that beans in all its variants is one of the easiest to cook especially to feed a large number of students, but do the meal planners think of the time they serve this delicacy?
Take for example our case we had rice and beans on Tuesdays and Thursdays for lunch (I can still remember this). It was a Herculean task staying awake for the rest of the day. Unfortunately too we would have one of the most boring teachers I have even met in my 16 years in school right after such a meal.
He would talk sotto voce for 80 minutes not caring if anyone was listening to him...it was a double lesson each being 40 min. The best part was, as soon as he walked out the sleep would walk away with him. We tried all sorts of tricks to stay awake from removing shoes and sweaters to lower the body temperature, to cello taping eyelids and washing the face with cold water without any success. Fifteen minutes into the lesson there would be only five out of thirty students awake the rest having succumbed to slumber. We shan't mention the gaseous emissions that proceeded to emanate from the various orifices of the sleeping parties.
I remember too drinking tap water without boiling it purifying it without any adverse effects, actually no one ever got sick from it. Once in a while there was drama in the dining hall like day the cooks served stale bread, which by the way was stinking to high heaven and they stood there expecting us to eat. The older students calmly staged a sit it and the school principal had to come and see for herself what we were grumbling about. She promptly got us fresh bread. Then there was the day someone found a sliced snail in her cabbage. Eeeeeeew!!! And did I mention the copious amount of weevils served regularly? As well as hair, fur and clipped nails that made its way into the the food?
School regulations included a statement to the effect that students were not allowed to eat in the dorms or something like that. Well, rules were made to be broken and break them we did.
Bread was the most important food and its absence from the tuck shop would get most student depressed for the rest of the day. The scramble for the same when it finally made its appearance was not for the faint hearted. Many ended up with serious injury in an effort to get "loaf". I have failed to fathom how I could eat three loaves of bread by myself then, and now I can only manage four slices at most.
Have a great bread free week.
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