$2 a day

One of our homework for D-Lab this week is to experience what it is like to live in a developing country and the whole class is living off of $2 a day. Well, not quite. More like $12 for 6 days. This is mainly for food since everything else we use is hard to quantify. Yalu and I decided to ban together so that we can have more money to work off of. So far, it's been quite an adventure.

We decided to start this on Saturday night, starting at dinner. So that afternoon, after disagreeing about how we're going to get to Star Market, we went out on our food shopping expedition. We stopped at the Korean store and got carrots, nappa, and green onions all for $2.57. Then we went to Star Market and got pork, bread, milk, and peanut butter. Our plan is to make rice porridge for lunch and dinner and then have bread and peanut butter for breakfast. Only it hasn't really worked out that way. We've been eating a lot of our bread and peanut butter since the porridge isn't very filling. I kept making this very watery porridge.

On Sunday, we decided that making porridge everyday would take a long time so we made a huge pot of this stuff all at once. We took some pictures, which I will post here soon. The pot was one of those soup kitchen pots and it barely fit on the stove.

I wonder what the rest of our class is doing. I think the only reason why we've managed to have rice, bread, and milk is because Yalu and I pooled our "resources". Otherwise, we'd both be eating the same thing 3 meals a day.