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SALLLLT! ch 2

I actually found chapter two to be much more exciting. i apologize that i cannot capitalize at all, its a bad habit i have. anyways, i think i enjoyed this section more because it was more about egyptian and pheonician lifestyles. i really like egyptian culture, for some strange reason. i also like that iy really only talked about salt in reference to food. anyways, at least this chapter didnt make me want to burn the entire book. i think that we are being forced to read this because even though it seems to really be about salt, i think its one of those tricky things teachers do. you see, the book uses salt sort of as like a time line, but it is also teaching us other things. like for example: how to mummify. they are sneaking in knowledge on us without us even knowing. its pretty cool, and i sort of like it. if i was a teacher i would do the same thing, kudos. i laughed out loud at the part where the mummified bodies were charged as being salted fish. i dont know why but i just find that to be very humurous. also, how exactly would you go about building a house out of salt. i dont really get it, doesnt salt dissolve in water? is this like a special kind of salt that is water resistant? also, i would always be tempted to lick my house.

i like good food, so i am very happy that with the use of salt good food was discovered. i would be a very sad woman if there was no such thing as raised bread. i think the way that they "mine" salt is sort of ridiculous in the sahara. they still use camels! can't anyone get them some technology over there! i would not like to be the person to find the preserved bodies in the desert. i think i'll try to avoid dying in the desert because i really dont want my body being preserved for a really long time and then having people study me. can you still request to be mummified? i sort of want to be, for some reason. i dont even believe in the after life, i just want to give my organs to my friends. also i would really feel like crap if i was one of those slaves that got traded for salt. i mean cmon, how bad would that make you feel, if i traded you for salt?! it also blows my mind that salt was just about as valuable as gold, its ridiculous. you can go to any grocery store and buy salt now, but back then you had to pay ridiculous amounts of money and so on just to get a little bit of salt. interesting. well, chapter two wasnt so bad, so maybe chapter three will be even better.

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OMG salt

So, this was an interesting chapter. I don't really get why salt is so fascinating to the Chinese. I guess its cool that they use it in a bunch of different things, but I suppose this is only the first chapter, so I dont really know much. Also, I definitely would never think that if i was in a desert dying to take salt and soy sauce with me, so I did find that part to be pretty interesting. That would probably be last on my list of things to bring. I enjoyed reading more about the people who discovered salt than the actualy discovery of it, but I really do just like learning about people. It might not have that much to do with the book. I think its cool that salt is in iron. I think you should be able to taste the salt in iron. That would be pretty hardcore. I also like that those people fought over the control of the salt lake, just because now salt lakes really aren't fought over at all. I rememeber I went to Death Valley with my family once and there was like 2 cm of water in this one "lake" and there was a whole story about how people would always try to get their donkeys to drink the water and they wouldnt, which is how they found out it was salt water. I think its strange I remember that. I still have hope for this book and hope it grabs my interest soon. Well, thats about all I have to say ;)
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