food in food out

Thinking of interesting things …

Food. We do get three meals which is more than in Ghana. Breakfast is always baguette and if we beg we get La vache qui rit (Laughing Cow cheese) or butter. Two of the volunteers here have a stash of jam that they bring out sometimes. Instant coffee, never tea. Because tea is a two hour ritual in the afternoon, boiling tea until it tastes like boiled tobacco leaves with so much sugar. Then they boil it again, sometimes with mint and a ton more sugar. And the good ones do it yet again for three rounds of the vile stuff.

Lunch is usually a version of jollof rice (chebuzhen) which is a big pot of rice sometimes with tomato sauce with boiled vegetables and whole fish. Huge chunks of vegetables. Then they scoop it all out on a big platter and we sit around on a big mat they lay underneath and ze dig in with a spoon. The owner of the house divvies up the vegs and meat to be sure we’re all eating enough.

Dinner is more of sitting on the floor usually with baguettes and a stew of some sort.

OK running out of patience with typing so I’ll just tell one more interesting thing: toilet. The bathroom is a toilet hole in the floor and a shower on the wall. Theres no toilet paper of any kind used but a bucket with water to clean off. It takes some getting used to for sure.