Cry Freedom
We had just arrived at our hostel, by the magnificent name of Pluto, and had decided to venture out into town to make the most of the glorious morning. We walked down the street and overheard to other tourists speaking. “It’s hard to find someone who only speaks English around here”, said the young man with an obvious American accent. “Yeah, I know, it makes it harder to overhear any conversations, right?, his friend responded. We had to agree that everything was a lot harder to understand when so many different languages were thrown around. As we continued our walk down the street we stumbled across a sign that said “SALE!”, obviously we had to go in, since there was a major sale on Max Factor Lipfinity lipsticks. With a bag full of lipsticks we searched for a nice outdoorsy restaurant and sat down to enjoy our meal. To get into the true Italian mood we ordered spaghetti with garlic and tomato and a true Italian pizza topped with red onion and a side order with the loveliest sweet potatoes that we drowned in Heinz ketchup. As we were looking out over the square a man was doing tricks with his giant eagle. An eagle so big it would scare of any canaries and bluebirds. As my companion went to the restroom I ordered a cup of coffee, and as they brought it I noticed that they used milk from Arla, which made me feel a bit like home.
After our delicious lunch we walked on to make more interesting discoveries. We stumbled over a massive bookstore and went in to see if we could find any bargains. Of course they, like any other bookshops, had the Harry Potter books on display. Behind the counter they had a slightly misplaced poster of Mona Lisa with a moustache. We did not find any bargains but we did have trouble finding the exit in this massive store.
Now it was my turn to do some shopping, therefore we went to a hardware store. Outside people were painting a fence. One of the guys pointed out “that looks nice”, while the other guys told him that they needed more paint. He entered the hardware store just before us and we saw him get more wood and paint. I ended up buying a new state of the art hammer, that really looked more like a Colt.
On our way back to the hostel we encountered a car accident. A car with a sticker saying “Baby on board” had driven up the back of another car. We mused a bit on that since there were clear signs saying both “danger” and “slow down now”. An ambulance was there, taking care of the injured people. You could clearly hear a child crying “Mama!”.
After we got back to our hostel after a long and exhausting day out we sat down to order room service and turned on the TV. A documentary on Kennedy was on, though it did make it easy understanding much of it seeing as they had synchronized it all into Italian.
We worked with what we had and this was what we could come up with in 45 minutes.
You didn't do too badly, but of course could have continued work after the 45 minutes were over!
ReplyDeleteThe narrative suffers a bit from rambling on, and needs editing. The ingredients were pretty well naturalized with the exception of the birds!