is that a potato?

lunch today was a bit questionable. thankfully i was alone so i could investigate it without stares. at first i thought it was frozen fish that hadn't been cooked all the way. but i finally figured it out it was a potato patty. there were three of them, all round, with breading on the outside and tomato sauce spread on top. green beans accompanied these strange patties, as did something in a side dish that was orange, round, small, and sweet, but had a horrible texture in my mouth and i didn't like it. i think it might have been candied something .. ??? oh, and cherry koolaid. overall, it was good. and filling.

right now i'm in an internet cafe across the street from my school. today is some kind of holiday that not everyone recognizes, apparently, but studying at shcool was optional because of it. some of us studied this morning, but then they locked the door at lunchtime. so i'm across the street using a special keyboard with characters in weird places. like where the single quotation mark should be is a { symbol. and the question mark is at the top of the keyboard, as is the double & single quotation marks. it makes typing interesting.

i have a correction to make for the money situation. i think i wrote about it... they have more coins than i thought originally. they have 1.00, .50, .25, .10, .05, and .01 coins. the bills are 5, 10, 25, 50, 100. they also have bills for 1 and .50, but apparently those are older and not as common. so whereas the other day i thought i had it figured out, i did not. such is life.