Mango Ice Cream

Our three Mngo trees are starting to get serious about their mango production. Yesterday we found about six on the ground in the morning. By evening we had another five or six. When we woke up this morning an even dozen was still on the ground.

This weekend we gave away a bag of mangos. Today I've been on my computer looking at my recipe program for mango recipes. I found 45 recipes calling for mangos, including a dozen for mango salsa, mango ice cream and mango sorbet.

Looks like we'll be trying out a lot of these recipes in the comining months. The mango tree is filled with lots of green mangos not ready to fall.

Mangos anyone?

Visitors

Today Justin, our Director from Quito, is coming into pay us a short visit. He has been doing this at the end of each session of English classes. Partly it is to show the flag in this small part of Ecuador, and partly to see how things are going.

Justin is a fun guy. He was born and raised in Iowa and wanted to be an actor. He studied acting in New York and London. He spent several years in London trying to break into Shakespearean Theater with minimal success. He ended up teaching English in Spain as a break to earn some money, and kept at it. He eventually ended up in Ecuador and then into the Director of English at EIL-Ecuador.

His career: Iowa-New York-London-Spain, has lead to an odd quirk which he calls his “Mid-Atlantic” accent… one part American Mid-West and one part cultured English with a strong sense of the stage about everything he says. It is about as non-neutral a neutral accent as you can get.