By now, I have absolutely no idea what time it is. We have gone through 2 liters of water,a granola bar, and a sleeve of Ritz crackers that Sharon had in the diaper bag. Lunch must be coming soon!
We then leave the school area and walk toward a cinderblock structure. On the way to the cinderbloack stucture we pass by this incredible termite mound.
As we approach the cinderblock structure, we figure it is the chief's residence. We are all seated at a long table made of planks, covered in a white table cloth. How they keep their whites so white is beyond me!
Several ladies come around with serving bowls and scoop food onto our plates. We cannot tell them "no" it would be rather insulting to our host. We just let them laddle out as they see necessary. While the ladies are placing food on the plates, two other people come around with wash basins of soapy water and clean water so we may rinse our hands.
Lunch. On the left are mazie cakes (made out of ground corn) what we guess is spaghetti noodles, and under the noodles in the sause, as we thought...goat...almost the whole goat...nothing is wasted. The sauce the goat was cooked in was very delicious...a nice balance of unknown spices. Sometimes unknown is good.
Dessert is green oranges...they are incredibly sweet and juicy and bananas. We find the fruit in Africa is generally amazingly sweet.
After lunch, we exchange our gifts with the chief. Captain Tim is presented the hind end of the goat...raw...which Eric graciously placed in the back of his vehicle. Although I have heard that Eric froze it for when we are able to come over and they would cook it for us....I hope we are on vacation then! ;)
The chief also presents us with bottles of roasted peanuts...yum...
We present him with pens for the school, candy for the kids, some medicine for the dispensary, scrubs, a Mercy Ships shirt and hat. We all guess it is time to leave...however...one more surprise awaits us.....
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