So I haven’t mentioned this to anyone yet, but I have a roommate. His name is Oscar and he is loud and stays up all night long. And he mostly stays in the bathroom all the time. And he’s a wild gecko. Oscar is a generous soul, because he’s always leaving presents for me. In the morning I will go into the bathroom to get ready to conquer the day and find little pellets of dry gecko crap on the toilet or on the floor of the bathtub. What a guy. Luckily we both like the same TV shows and have had a blast watching 30 Rock together.
Oscar
Oscar's present
Oh, that reminds me that I’ve forgotten to mention another curiosity about life in PG. Almost everyone here almost regardless of income has cable from a satellite in town that picks up a feed from New York City. So I get basic cable (minus Comedy Central and my favorite CBC) plus HBO, Cinemax, TMC, and Starz. It’s a little surreal but it’s also been a great way to wind down after a day of teaching and just tune out for a little bit before writing another series of lesson plans while watching 300 or end-to-end syndicated episodes of Seinfeld. Luckily, I haven’t been bored enough yet to watch the local NYC newscast. So I’ve been able to keep up with college basketball and the state of the gigantic Demorama sandwich (with pork!) of a stimulus package. It’s funny because Marion hates getting involved in Belizean politics and would much rather talk about politics in the States. So I watch Wolf Blitzer with him and then Patricia and I get to find out what’s actually going on in our neck of the Hemisphere on the Belize 5 news while Marion cooks or goes to teach curriculum development at the University of Belize. By the way, the cane riots ended after the first day but the cane farmers are still on strike. And yes, I did get to watch Superbowl XLIII. One of the PeaceCorps folks works at the local eye clinic and gets to live upstairs for free. So she borrowed the projector from downstairs and we watched the Superbowl on a bed sheet nailed to the wall of a Belizean eye clinic. The surreality is just too much to bear. My favorite commercial involved a Koala being punched in the face, but we all got an ironic kick out of a big screen TV commercial that said “If your TV doesn’t say Vizio right here (arrow points to bottom of sheet) you’re not getting the full experience”.
2 comments:
My goodness Matt, your blog posts are quite fun to read. I originally thought Oscar was human, but he's something even better...Next week is homelessness advocacy week at SU...David and I have been working on the publicity for the event, and we're working alongside a few other clubs including Camp Min and Habitat. I hope you're doing well. I wish I was somewhere warmer and more sunny. Love ya bro.
i really thought you had a roommate for a second and was quite offended that you hadn't told me about him yet. but when i got to the part about leaving you poopy presents i realized my mistake
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