Papayas are awesome

I decided today that I’ll eat a papaya everyday for lunch along with sprouted grain bread. This is way healthier than my previous diet of plate lunches of minute chicken (what in the world is that you ask, even though I ate it, don’t ask me, just avoid it if at all possible) and other mysterious deep fried meats.

Not sure if it’s the strawberry variety of papaya that I picked up a Down to Earth or if it’s papayas in general, but they are delicious. The only problem is that I have yet to really learn how to eat one. The first time I tried a papaya here I peeled it, cut it open and scooped out the seeds. I also kept the seeds thinking I could grow them in my soon-to-be backyard/lanai, but that’s another story. I then proceeded to chop it like any other fruit. This weekend I tried to handle it like a melon, where I chopped it in half, scooped out the seeds and then used a knife to slice the skin off; leaving just wedges of fruit. This method didn’t work so well since the fruit was rather ripe. Today for lunch I took the other half and just used a spoon to scoop out the fruit and this worked out quite well. I think this will be the preferred method to eat papayas from now on.

I found out last night that my Alliance Française membership doesn’t transfer from chapter to chapter. Not so bad I guess, at least there is a AF chapter out here. I’ve practically lost all my French, so it’ll be tough trying to pick it up again. I still read the news digests and alerts from France 24 in French, and those alerts are pretty awesome since those are sent in real-time as in hot off the presses; this is really helpful since out here in HI, news may take a while to get here.