It’s been a while since I last posted. I’ve got two things to talk about:
1. Lobsterfest – Julie and I went to Lobsterfest in Placencia a couple weekends ago. It’s a festival celebrating the opening of lobster season. There are a bunch of booths selling all different kinds of lobster. We decided to splurge at a nice restaurant instead of buying lobster at all the booths. We went to a nice place called Rumfish y Vino. We split the “Lobster 5 Ways” special. It was 5 kinds of lobster dishes with 5 different kinds of wine:
-Lobster Seviche, Lobster Bisque, Lobster crepes, Lobster Sheppard's pie and Lobster pasta.
It was delicious. It was nice to be back in Placencia again.
2. Eiley Family Reunion – I was invited to the Eiley Family Reunion in Placencia last weekend (back to back weekends in Placencia, not bad). It was my first large Belizean Family gathering experience. I was able to sit in the front seat while driving down south for the first time; most of the time I am on a bus or in the back seat of a SUV. The country of Belize is beautiful and driving from Belize City to Placencia you go through about 5 different scenery changes: city, Caribbean dessert (its kind of like Belize’s version of Texas), Jungle, Maya Mountains and Placencia peninsula. We left early in the morning so the fog was still hanging around in the Maya mountains. It was a spectacular sight. The reunion was a good experience and I had a good time meeting the relatives of my host family. They all treated me as if I were apart of the family.
I failed the Foreign Service Exam. Its not an easy test due to the randomness of the questions and the limited time given on the writing portion. Now that i am familiar with the layout, I am going to attempt the exam again next year. The pass rate is somewhere in the 20% range. Happy Birthday to Erich Weiss (July 6th). Hope all is well in the States.
Far From Home,
Christopher Wilkins Weiss
2 comments:
Lobster Fest huh, can't say I'm suprised, you've always been a big lopster guy. Sorry about the test, you need me to tutor you? Big day coming up, Cristin's wedding is this Saturday, should be alot of wine circles going down
The old Lobsterfest....been to a few of those in my day. Used to throw a lot of lobsterfest's at the old frat, even occasionly out here in chicago when we moved out here. Hope you enjoyed experiencing one in a foreign country. Lop it up.
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