Here at the farm we eat morning glory a lot. You know that weed in your most precious flower bed that keeps growing and growing until it has taken over every beautiful daffodil and chrysanthemum you have? And then you get out this thing called weed killer, and spray it all over that vile plant in order to take it out of this world. We eat that here. Okay, not exactly. Here we eat what is called Chinese morning glory, sometimes known as Chinese spinach. So it's really not bad, or weird, but for the first week I thought we thought we were eating that exact weed.
Here are the differences. This is Chinese Morning Glory
This is the weed you kill.
I really just wanted to write about morning glory because I have never heard of eating it like they do here, and I wanted the title of this blog to be What's the Story Morning Glory (you know the play Bye Bye Birdie?).
So, last weekend we headed up to a city called Lampang with some ward members and missionaries to spend the day at a blind school. They had the day filled with different activities for the children like reading them stories, singing songs, and games like telephone. My favorite was playing this game where they stood in a line and they had to pass water from one person to another eventually into a cup. We were all laughing and laughing as they tried to pass it, but mostly ended up throwing it on us and each other. It was great, and I really enjoyed working with them and getting a taste for what the blind community is like. The kids were so happy with life, it made me once again remember the blessings I enjoy everyday.
I am loving it here, hot weather, bugs and all. I'm not sure if I've told you about Frank, the big daddy long leg that sits in the corner of our room. He's pretty chipper most of the time. Except when we have to kill the daddy long legs on the floor of our room, then he won't talk for a few hours. But give him an ant or fly and he cheers up again.
p.s.
For whatever reason my computer decided to stop reading my SD card so I can't get the pictures off of my camera. So until I figure that out, I won't have any pictures to post.
I got it to work, see the link at the top.
