hello, again.

We pretty much spent the whole day building/playing around/testing the kinetic sculptures, with a few lectures here and there. It was pretty nice. We achieve a nice balance of lectures and hands-on activities here at clusta 2. Building the kinetic sculptures got frustrating at times because we had a hard time finding the parts in the bins, or the parts were broken. After today, I must say that the loop de loops are evil. They look cool, but they are tricky, tricky little pieces of plastic that do not cooperate... grr. On a lighter note, during the afternoon we tested the sensors, and our group was able to finish the worksheets, so that was a relief. It's funny how it took us soooo long to assemble the sculptures but it only took us like five minutes to take them apart.

Food Recap:
Breakfast: The usual stuff, except today they had potatoes with cheese/rosemary/onions/other stuff. that was okay/good.
Lunch: French Dip Sandwich-pretty good, it was an enjoyable lunch, except I wish that they toasted the bread for the sandwich--that would make it even better.
Dinner: Pineapple Chicken, Kahluah Pork w/ Cabbage, Teriyaki Zucchini and coconut rice
Pineapple Chicken--I don't know.... I wasn't a big fan of this.... I don't know if it was supposed to be like that or what, but the meat was quite shredded and it didn't really taste like chicken..... The pineapple didn't really help the flavor either.
Kahlua Pork w/ Cabbage: This was much better than the chicken. The texture was a lot better, the meat was quite tender and still intact, and the flavors somewhat worked.
Teriyaki Zucchini--I'm a big fan of the zucchini, and I love grilled veggies, but I don't like eating anything that is excessively black, which is what my zucchini turned out to be. So, I ended up picking off the excessively blackened areas and the zucchini turned out to be quite good.
Coconut Rice--Okay. I know they are trying to go with the 'tropical' theme, but they really shouldn't name it something that it doesn't taste like. Let's face it, the coconut rice today was really just white rice. There was no resemblance of coconut in there... Maybe they named it 'coconut rice' because the insides of coconuts are white, but the name is just misleading. People will think that the rice will have a coconut flavor or will have coconut in it--both of which are false.

Today I realized that for quite a few days now, I've been having either the chocolate cake or the brownies for dessert. What struck me as peculiar was that it seemed like I was having perhaps stuff from the same batch :O over and over again. I mean, they have had the same cupcakes at lunch for two or three days now.... so I tend to avoid them...

Luckily, as I was waiting for my suitemates to get ice cream today at dinner, I saw one of the chefs bring out a large pan of brownies and place them onto the plate. Phew. That was a close one.

Nonetheless, my strategy from now is that I won't be having any dessert that I've seen the day before.... just to be on the safe side ;)

Peace out,
Joyce