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INESAD Beer and Book Club, August 2015


This month's Beer & Book Club meeting at INESAD experienced a significant upgrade, as Susana invited us all to her place for Spanish food and Spanish beer.

Beer & Book Club dinner at Susana's house, La Paz, August 2015.
Beer & Book Club dinner at Susana's house, La Paz, August 2015.




Since Corona bottles are not included in the bottle recycling system in Bolivia, Lykke taught everybody how to turn the empty bottles into drinking glasses using only string, nail polish-remover, a candle and cold water.

Preparing to turn empty Corona bottles into Corona drinking glasses.
Preparing to turn empty Corona bottles into Corona drinking glasses.


First step is to tie a cotton string three times around the bottle and soak the string in nail polish remover.
The first step is to tie a cotton string three times around the bottle and soak the string in nail polish remover.


Second step is to set fire to the string and turn the bottle in your hands about 50 times or until the fire extinguishes, and then quickly drop the bottle in ice-cold water.
Second step is to set fire to the string and turn the bottle in your hands about 50 times or until the fire extinguishes, and then quickly drop the bottle in ice-cold water.


If you are lucky, like Agnes, you will get a clean, horizontal cut below the string, and with some fine sand paper, you can smooth the edge to make sure it won't cut anybody.
If you are lucky, like Agnes, you will get a clean, horizontal cut below the string, and with some fine sand paper, you can smooth the edge to make sure it won't cut anybody.


The cut is not always smooth enough for a drinking glass. Santi's attempt failed.
It doesn't always work perfectly, though. Santi got a ragged cut above the string, which makes the glass useless for drinking purposes.


Instead Santi was highly successful as a play uncle for Alex, who clearly misses his father, who had to go to the U.S. for a while.
Instead Santi was highly successful as a play uncle for Alex, who clearly misses his father, who had to go to the U.S. for a while.


And of course we also made our book reviews and book exhanges. Both Montserrat and Susana cheated, though, as they wanted to keep the books they had brought along, because they had still not had a chance to read them.

INESAD Beer & Book Club group photo, August 2015.
INESAD Beer & Book Club group photo, August 2015. Stefano, the photographer, missing.


Finally, we decided on the next INESAD outing, which will be a hike to Palca on Sunday the 30th of August, just before Agnes leaves INESAD to go study in London. Here is the blog post from last year's Palca hike: https://www.inesad.edu.bo/fun/2014/05/2014-hike-through-the-palca-canyon/ .