Friday, June 11, 2010

Some Visitors For Lunch

At the Kweli Learning Centre when the students eat lunch the teachers eat lunch as well and everyone eats the same thing. Monday it is beans and rice, tuesday and thursday it is oogali... and wednesday and friday it was a dish that i cant remember the name of. But it is maize and beans. When Tricia said its corn and beans i was thinking oh ok cool. But this corn is different, its the kind that you feed to your animals. It does not taste like corn at all. I cant even really describe it.
Well anyways, at lunch on Wednesday we had this with the addition of a few visitors.
The bag of beans that they have been using was at one point overrun with little bugs. So they left it out in the sun to kill the bugs, or let them fly away. But many died in the beans...

So at lunch you have to make sure you look around your dish very well for any little black things that are not supposed to be there! Having a few bugs in your beans is typical, the people here are used to it. But this past week i have watched even the teachers pick the bugs out of the food and create a nice little pile by their dish.
On Wednesday we were laughing about it, and decided to have a contest: Whoever found the most bugs wins.
And i won the contest! I found 15 little bugs in my food.
I dont know if i was the winner, or loser though... :)

2 comments:

  1. Oh, ZEEK, Dear Sam.
    How do you feel today??
    We've been praying.

    Much LOVE, Grandma B

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  2. Makes me think about how well I have it here in the states. My prayers before I eat will probably be a bit more thankful. Sounds like your having a great time, bugs and all :) We miss you here but are so happy you get this opportunity to be there.

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