So, my 13 month old apparently has stashed toys in secret hiding places around the church in case of desperate need. Josh caught her opening a kitchen cupboard in the past to retrieve a toy that he didn't see her put there. He thought nothing of it. But yesterday, we stopped by the church briefly, didn't get any toys out while we did a few things and my sister in law noticed Ana going to the photocopier. We watched as she opened the bottom compartment which is for paper storage and chuckled in amazement that she knew how to open the compartment. Before we could take one step to go instruct her not to play with the copier, she quickly and purposefully pulled something out and confidently reclosed the compartment. She emerged, matter of factly and oblivious to adult supervision... with a toy in each hand, stashed for safe keeping in the copier lest mama and daddy not provide toys on one of our many hours at the church!
Every tribe in Uganda has different food preferences, but they tend to revolve around these basics. Boarding school students (i.e. the vast majority of secondary school students) generally eat posho and beans daily except for a Sunday portion of meat. Imagine eating the same food for every meal! "Food" is the starch while everything else is the "soup" that goes with the food. Generally a large quantity of the starch is portioned out with a smaller quantity of the soup. "Foods" include: White sweet potato (peeled and boiled) Cassava/manioc (as chips) Irish potatoes (peeled and boiled) White maize ( posho - as a loaf of sticky "bread") Millet ( atapa or kalo - as a loaf of sticky "bread") Matoke /green plantain (best when steamed in banana leaves) Rice The "soup" includes a wide variety of ingredients in these categories: Greens Beans Cabbage Peanuts - ground into flour or paste depending on the tribe M...
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