I recently applied for a job that would begin after I
complete service in Samoa. I’m concerned
that they will think that I don’t have enough international experience. I think tonight’s dinner says otherwise.
It’s cool and damp so I’m going with comfort food. A tuna
noodle casserole. I don’t have an oven,
so I’m cooking it ever so slowly on my hotplate. How international are the ingredients?
Pasta – made in Mexico, distributed by the United
States. For $2.40 USD. How can that happen?
Mushroom soup – thank you Campbell’s of New Jersey.
Tuna – courtesy of a company in Fiji. $1.40 USD a can. Seems cheap to me given that someone had to
catch it, clean it, can it and ship it.
Cheese – from the happy cows in New Zealand.
Pot to cook it in?
Made in China. Canned tomatoes
that I’m serving on the side?
Micronesia.
I bought everything in Samoa. That means my dinner involves food and
products from six countries delivered to a seventh country. If
that’s not international, I don’t know what is.
It’s never too early to think about the Third Goal. Check out Peace Corps Experience: Write & Publish Your Memoir. Oh! If you want a good laugh about what PC service was like in a Spanish-speaking country back in the 1970’s, read South of the Frontera: A Peace Corps Memoir.
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