six random (bizarro) facts/stories

got this idea from Kate. can somebody send this to her? thanks. :)

(sorry to those who've already heard my strange stories)

Have eaten guinea pig. It's not good. I don't advise it. Very fatty and fried with little meat. Claws and bulging eyes just add to the grossness. It's a delicacy in Ecuador. See photos in blog from July 4th, 2006.

I was bitten by a monkey while standing on a bridge over Love River in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on Dragon Boat Festival day. After acting like a fool (read: acting out monkey and biting) for the dr. to compensate for my limited Chinese he calmly spoke to me in English and prescribed 32 pills a day for a week. That's when I finally learned how to swallow meds.

Because of a communication breakdown, I squatted and peed in front of an entire bus full of Filipino people just minutes away from my final destination. (it was that or wet myself while riding their bus!) Who knew I was so close?

My landlady once handed me a frozen bat in a ziploc bag. It had been flying around my apt. the night before and she had since had the "Bat Man" (no joke!) come to catch it and "batproof" the house. She was telling me that I needed to take it in to the County Health Dept. to have it checked for rabies. A day or two later the County Health Dept. called me at school to say that my bat didn't have rabies and ask me if I wanted it back. Eeeww.

I can write my full name legibly in cursive with my feet (each of them). Toe socks help. Don't ask me how I discovered this.

Claim to be a renowned indian leg wrestler. Wanna challenge me? ! Let's go.