Comments on: Culture: Eating a Cow http://www.spanishprograms.com/blog/2009/11/199/ Spanish Learning Updates, Tips, and Tricks Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:09:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: danwize http://www.spanishprograms.com/blog/2009/11/199/#comment-2005 danwize Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:35:25 +0000 http://www.spanishprograms.com/blog/?p=199#comment-2005 <a href="#comment-1975" rel="nofollow">@colleen</a> It is amazing to see people who have almost nothing, share the very little they have. In a city called Joinville, SC in Brazil, where I lived for a few months, my friend and I worked in welfare kitchen run by a Catholic parish there. Most days we would go around to the nearby produce vendors and ask for food to serve to women and children at lunch. Even though these vendors had little to give, they would still invariably give us a few heads of lettuce or other vegetables. Whatever they could afford to give. A lot of the produce was not in great shape, but after cleaning it and cutting off any bad parts, we were able to salvage most of it. The meals provided were a great blessing to those poor women and children, who were very grateful for the meals provided. @colleen It is amazing to see people who have almost nothing, share the very little they have. In a city called Joinville, SC in Brazil, where I lived for a few months, my friend and I worked in welfare kitchen run by a Catholic parish there. Most days we would go around to the nearby produce vendors and ask for food to serve to women and children at lunch. Even though these vendors had little to give, they would still invariably give us a few heads of lettuce or other vegetables. Whatever they could afford to give.

A lot of the produce was not in great shape, but after cleaning it and cutting off any bad parts, we were able to salvage most of it. The meals provided were a great blessing to those poor women and children, who were very grateful for the meals provided.

]]> By: colleen http://www.spanishprograms.com/blog/2009/11/199/#comment-1975 colleen Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:43:53 +0000 http://www.spanishprograms.com/blog/?p=199#comment-1975 I can understand how you feel about not wanting to waste food. When I was in Honduras we visited an orphange on Sundays. It was such an eye opener. When we arrived there would be singing and always some sort of celebration. The place was well kept even though the facility was older and somewhat short on space. When I commented about how unsanitary an open water container seemed that some kids were playing in I was told "that is the drinking water". They wanted to share food with us but we could not bring ourselves to take away from anyone. One visit I brought candy which our group normally did but I came alone so there wasn't very much to go around. I spoke to the man who ran everything and told him maybe I should just put it away and save it for next time. He said no it will be fine. The kids knew what was in the bag, somebody peeked...after lunch I waited as long as I could hoping we would leave. They lined up eagerly smiling and waiting for me to pass out the jolly ranchers. The bigger kids were in front and I thought "Great- now the little ones will miss out!" But I was surprized and greatly humbled to see the bigger kids take only one piece and bite off smaller pieces and give them to the other kids. I still get choked up when I think about this considering like you said how much goes to waste without even a second thought. Thanks for giving a place to share stories. I appreciate it. I can understand how you feel about not wanting to waste food. When I was in Honduras we visited an orphange on Sundays. It was such an eye opener. When we arrived there would be singing and always some sort of celebration. The place was well kept even though the facility was older and somewhat short on space. When I commented about how unsanitary an open water container seemed that some kids were playing in I was told “that is the drinking water”. They wanted to share food with us but we could not bring ourselves to take away from anyone. One visit I brought candy which our group normally did but I came alone so there wasn’t very much to go around. I spoke to the man who ran everything and told him maybe I should just put it away and save it for next time. He said no it will be fine. The kids knew what was in the bag, somebody peeked…after lunch I waited as long as I could hoping we would leave. They lined up eagerly smiling and waiting for me to pass out the jolly ranchers. The bigger kids were in front and I thought “Great- now the little ones will miss out!” But I was surprized and greatly humbled to see the bigger kids take only one piece and bite off smaller pieces and give them to the other kids. I still get choked up when I think about this considering like you said how much goes to waste without even a second thought. Thanks for giving a place to share stories. I appreciate it.

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