Jarf in BA

Saturday, March 7, 2009

I'm in Kansas????

Tuesday night I went out to dinner with Alejandro and his friend Andy. They took me to a very nice resurante called...."Kansas". I thought that was funny at first, why name it Kansas? Anyway, the food was very good it was supposed to be like american style, with extra big portions and different styles of cooking then what you typically get here. I got the BBQ Pork Chop..which was very good.

And to complete the American feel of the resturant it comes complete with "Hurried" service. You know how the waiter gently hints that he would like you to go because there are other people he would like to have at the table...yeah that happened. You typically don't get that here, you have to ask the waiter for your check and they will wait patiently for you. All in all Kansas was pretty good.

Having a party? Order a sandwich brick

Why go to subway for a 6 foot sandwich when you can order a sandwich that is a 30cm x 30cm x 30 cm cube:

All joking aside it was actually pretty darn good. Each layer is a different type of sandwich, so everytime you grab another sandwich you get another suprise!

Monday, March 2, 2009

Jajajajaja...

As you may know much of my communication at work is over IM (for the old people this is Instant Messenger...its realtime chating). Anyway, there are many short cuts that are used when talking to one another for instance... when you want to say something is funny you type "lol" which stands for Laughing Out Loud or you type "Hahahahaha" which is like laughter...easy right?

Well, the first week I was here I was a little confused by a message or 2 that I recieved from a local it was "jajajajajaja" now my reading that I thought it was weird, but in the context it would have be laughter. A few days later I had an apiphiny...In spanish the "j" is pronounced like our "h", so for the spanish speaking community "jajajajaja" makes perfect sense as laughter.

I thought that was a neat little tid bit.

McDowells Delivers!

The project is coming to a very tense point in its development. We're coming up on our timeline and there is still a ton of stuff to do. To keep up team moral we have decided to order some lunch in for the team...what do we order? McDonalds...and for delivery. Lol...it cracks me up a little bit.

So, I had a discussion over my Doble Cuarto de Libre con Queso with the team about the delivery of McD's and how i thought that was funny and I had to eat McD's because it was delivery...oh and I also got attacked by the team members when I asked for "sin queso" lol. Anyway, they were amazed that you couldn't order from any of the fast food chains in the US.

Which we then proceeded to dicussion what you could get delivered and you can get pretty much anything. I actually saw a waiter crossing the street with a tray that had one cup of coffee on it. I thought it was something weird at the time, but they informed me today that this was possible....a single cup of coffee. The team knowing my love of Starbucks suggested that I order starbucks for delivery.

Oh and you can order a liter of coke or water or whatever...need a bag of chips to go with that...order it. If only I could "hablar" enough spanish to place such an order....i guess in time...hopefully.