Speaking of Big Macs...okay we weren't but I was thinking about them.

I just read an article in the Sydney Herald that McDonalds and Weight Watchers are teaming up. Can you even believe it took them this long. I mean it's so obvious. Get it? Mcdonalds and Weight Watchers. Right... So apparently there are 3 items on the McDonald's menu that weight watchers approves. I don't know what they are but the Big Mac isn't one of them. There are a world of questions I have about this partnership. Also I want to know who goes to McDonalds and orders a side salad with their grilled fish? I want to know who orders grilled fish at McDonalds? But mostly I want to know how much McDonalds paid Weight Watchers. All things I will probably never know. C'est la vie, I won't dwell on these absurdities.

So I felt a little guilty after I posted the shit talking about the backpacker food. Because as I was posting it my Italian friend Gabrielle was whipping up a gourmet dinner in the crappy hostel kitchen to share with his roommates. Prawns in a mint and orange glaze, risotto and sweet potato mash to share. It takes a rare person to commit to cooking such fare using the crowded kitchen with the stove that has a high heat setting and only high heat. And come to think of it there isn't anything larger than a cereal bowl in the place. So yes he deserves a gold star. But then this of all things, he made tiramisu and saved me a piece so when I came down from having a beer on the roof after dinner the above was waiting for me in the fridge. I nearly cried of happiness. Because how lucky am I to have a piece of hostelmade tiramasu saved for me by Gabrielle whose R's roll like music and also I hadn't had something to eat in all of 10 minutes so I was hungry too!!

I will at some point next week cook for these people, who it only took me 4.5 weeks of living with become friends with. I am slower at these things but better late than never and cooking for some is better than one. Chicken, rice, guacamole, burritos? What can I bring them that's homemade, delicious and reflects home for me. Because I would like to share a piece of home with those who are making this hostel my temporary home for now.

Taking suggestions! Off to shop for some work shoes - seriously I only have flip flops so stop judging...