Wednesday June 23rd

Today we had our last field trip in the animal science program. Our first stop was to a meat cutting place. We were all so worried that the place was going to be pretty disgusting like in the past, but this place was really nice. The place smelled so good too; smoked pork and lounza, mmmm delicious. Everyone was given a sample to try, and I didn't particullary like the lounza, but almost everyone else did.


After the meat place we went into the Troodos mountains to a local fishery. We had to do a bit of hiking because our bus dropped us off about a half a mile below the fishery, but it was completely okay with me. It was nice to be able to enjoy the fresh air. At the fishery we were given a tour and shown the different fish, a breed of trout and another breed that looks like a shark and is used for caviar. The owner showed us how the weed out the small trout from the larger trout in order to catch them. He then allowed us to try to catch fish with our bare hands. Some of us were able to do so, altough they were quite slippery. I caught one but do not have any photographs to prove it. The owner also invited us to lunch where we were served some trout - delicious! Before we headed to lunch, though, we went to an area with mouflon (the Cypriot sheep/goat mix). My friend Sarah and I went ahead of the group because we were ready for the hike and found one mouflon. I have pictures but he was so far away that you can barely make out the horns in the picture. The area that they were in was fenced off, and at one point during our hike Sarah and I saw an open gate. It took us awhile to figure out that this gate was safe to go through and didn't lead us into mouflon territoy. Everything about this place reminded us of Jurassic Park. After the hike, the class continued onto a very old mill run by water, which was pretty neat to see.

Lunchtime finally followed, and we were all quite hungry. We downed the bread and salad, and the trout was very tasty. The cook even made mine without garlic! I love Cypriots!
After lunch we headed back to Nicosia. I studied a bit in the evening before going out with some of the girls to a club. I'm still not so sure about this whole clubbing thing, considering that I did not get back to my apartment until 4 in the morning, and the bus for Polis left at 8am. I still earnestly believe that the only way to have fun at clubs here is to be drinking/drunk, and that's just not who I am. It was open bar though, so I drank my ticket-worth in Coca Cola and Sprite!