Monday, 22 July 2013

July 14, Touring Iowa city until bunny-o-clock

Between the Lines updates (international writing program)

As breakfast in our dorm wasn’t served on Sunday we went to downtown. Garden Market. Organic food. I took fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice following student’s choice and an almond croissant. The note on the juice said ‘The product is not pasteurized, it may contain harmful bacteria and may not be suitable for people with weak immune system’. A tiny Thumbelina from our group took a high-calorie peanut butter cake (scotcharoo) and left the half of it. American style.



A tour of Iowa revealed the literary artistic background of the city. Benches were covered with drawings, sidewalks with quotes on the background of prairies, cats, binoculars and what not. Old piano was right in the middle of a pedestrian mall, sit down and play (the students actually did so).  We dropped into the Haunted bookshop selling used books (great bargains!) and antique store Artifacts full of old photos, ceramics, jewelry and Spanish hats.

And in the evening Iowa city is sparkled with fire flies – little lightening bugs raising from the ground. Raccoons cramp near the river, chipmunks climb the trash bins and bunnies cross the sidewalk leaping away as soon as you want to take a picture of it. It’s bunny o’clock. Rabbit time.

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