So my friend Helen moved to the Phillipines after graduation last year to work for a nonprofit. Her blog is pretty amazing because the way she describes the differences in culture and her everyday activities seems so accurate you almost feel like you are in Tagalog with her. Her family has visited one by one and last night I received a video of her brother eating balut. For those of you that don't know what balut is, it's a nearly developed chicken embryo still in the egg eaten through a hole on top of the egg. It looks like this.

This is considered a delicacy!  Anyway... I wanted to share the video with someone because i can't imagine anyone eating this 17 day old egg.  Oh other cultures...  It's so fascinating how different cultures look at food.  One of Noah's friends from Japanese class was telling me how they don't serve raw vegetables in Japan and how their teacher who came to America about 13 years ago thought it was so weird when she saw how we put vegetable plates out with dip at parties.   

Okay - here's the video.

Michel Gondry Solves a Rubics Cube

ive been home since wednesday and ive been loving my lazy days in marietta. my activities have consisted in napping, reading, taking baths, running, watching This American Life, reading Before Night Falls, and socializing in small doses. with all food and drinks included, I feel I'm living the high life. ive enjoyed my time away from athens partly because it takes a lot for me to relax in that city. it's so closely connected to my get-shit-done mode in my brain that its hard to switch gears there. oh but marietta, marietta is a completely different story, there is absolutely no pressure what-so-ever. i spend most of my day in pajama pants and oversized undershirts and i don't feel guilty for it in the least. columns drive is an exceptional place to go running. apparently, all those joggers knew what they were doing all these years. this lifestyle can't last forever so i'm going back to athens on sunday to work and have a bit of summer before classes start in june. im excited about socializing with my friends before school starts up. its nice to see people out without school hanging in the background.

i saw this documentary on mother's day at the tara. it was pretty cute and i'd suggest everyone go see it.