Entry # 7 Carol 5

When he arrives, he sits in the same seat he sat on the morning when he ate breakfast. It’s around 11 o’clock in the morning, and Carol is served his lunch by one of his employees, Rosiris. His lunch is always the same: meat, rice, potatoes, and a salad made with lettuce, tomatoes. He pours a lot of lemon into the salad as well as vinegar. He has a device that helps you squeeze the lemons. You just have to cut the lemons in half, and then put a lemon inside the device. Then you press the device and out come the juice. The acidic juice in lemons has eaten the device up. How old can that device be?
Carol is served his salad on a separate dish from the meat and rice. He eats the salad first. When he’s done, he drinks the leftover lemon juice on the dish. He then moves the dish away and grabs the other plate, the one with the rice, meat, and potatoes. He eats his lunch fast, as if he was in a hurry. When he is done, he stands up, goes to the refrigerator, opens the door, takes out water bottle, drinks the amount of water he likes, and puts the bottle back in. He does not use a cup or anything similar; he drinks off the bottle that is for everyone’s use. That refrigerator is full of chocolate boxes never being open, sometimes chocolates bitten and then put back in; water bottles are half filled, you find boxes of candies that have been there for ages. Who knows why don’t they throw them out?
When Carol is done having lunch, he goes upstairs back to his room. Normally, he finds his wife writing from one notebook to another or preparing that afternoon’s and evening’s lesson. She does that if she’s not in a lesson. My grandmother teaches History of Modern Art at her house’s living room. She takes notes and copies notes and recopies them into new notebooks, and so on. It’s a never ending system. She’s got thousands of notebooks which are perfectly organized on a library she has at her house. That library is full of dust and spider webs. It looks as if it was two thousand years old. She also records TV shows or movies that will help her with her lessons.
If she’s in a lesson, than my grandfather goes directly to his room and puts on his pajamas to take a little nap. He hates those lessons full of old ladies. He hates it that when he is having lunch, there are old ladies coming in to his house, saying hi to him as he is eating, and then go upstairs to the T.V. room or to the living room, where the lessons are held.
If my grandmother is not in a lesson, then she is planning it. Carol goes upstairs to find Lourdes his wife planning her lesson in the T.V. room. When this happens, then Carol sits around in the T.V. room trying to make a conversation with Lourdes, but, he is never able.