For 199 baht (almost US$7.00), I bought an apple!!! Its vibrant color and size initially attracted me! Because it is imported from Japan, it’s expensive -– surprise-surprise! As you can see, some of the fruit here is packaged quite uniquely – for $7.00 it should be! My classmates and I amused ourselves by taking pictures and comparing it with the size of our heads and hands.(Check out the great packaging! Even the stem is protected with foam)!
Here is Aarti (India) with the imported apple. Incidentally, Aarti is an elementary school principal in India, who is an electronics specialist and on the NASA training team. We proudly call her our future astronaunt, our peace fellow colleague, our loving humanitarian, our new friend!As a Rotarian Peace Fellow, I decided to share my apple with everyone (18 wedges) this afternoon. Final consensus (drumroll) ... it was delicious, but (in my opinion), does not compare to a fresh, crisp McCoun – my personal favorite – hand-picked from a carefully pruned apple tree on a crisp autumn afternoon, grown on a New England farm/orchard ...
