For breakfast today we had something called sweet rice, a
dish that Jai Dev very excitedly recommended but that elicited only mild
reactions from us – it’s boiled grains of some sort served in raw cows milk, so
quite porridge-like but a lot more liquid and sour-tasting. We had a bunch of fruits for dessert that seemed quite alien
to me at first but turned out to be familiar fruits in very exotic masquerade,
such as big yellow passion fruits that looked quite different to the shrivelly
brown ones I’m used to, or mad spiky red things, discovered to be just lychees
with a very fancy exterior.
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| Plate I: Pretty manageable. |
This was by far not the last fruit-related surprise of the
day. We spent the morning cleaning the kitchen and defrosting the fridge and
then were introduced to the greenhouse to water and weed the kale and strawberry
plants growing there.
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| The greenhouse doesn't look too green here... |
While working on that, Jai Dev came by and invited us to see
a few more of the fruit trees on the other side of the house, and allowed us to
pick two varieties, one being a strange squishy yellow potato shape with dots
on it and the other a surprisingly heavy spiky orange affair. We put them away
to be eaten later when Judy asked us to spend some time with the baby cow to
get it used to people – not a job I think either of us was expecting from this
trip! Trying to lure it away from its stary-eyed mother turned out to be quite
an intimidating experience, but with Judy’s help we finally had the calf under
control and I spent a lovely half hour sitting in and around cow poo trying to
calm the little thing down by stroking and hugging it, getting intense amounts
of cow-slobber on myself. After that (and a much-needed shower) I went to eat
one of the fruits from earlier (the 'noni'), while Sarah wouldn’t go within a six foot
radius of it because of its alleged smell of feet. I had most of it, and while it was largely disgusting and made my mouth and lips numb, it was still an interesting experience.
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| Plate II: WHOAH |
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