Homelife

We passed a cultural parade, and my translator, Lena, tried to explain, but all I got out of it is this is the traditional dress and it looked like a  parade.  

After our stop at KFC, Lena insisted that I eat some, "In Africa, we share."  And then she told me that eating too much KFC would give you worms.  I asked if she knew that KFC was American.  She didn't.  

 Tourchy asked if I wanted to see her laptop yesterday, and then she showed me this.  It was too cute to not take a picture.

 

My host mother insisted that I try liver tonight.  She has offered it to me before, and I just could not do it.  But today I did, because she said, “This is liver.  You must try it.”  At first, I thought it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be- it’s not nearly as tough as other traditional meat and the flavor was good, but the texture and the thought that it was liver got to me.  I gagged.  I’ve gotten really good at chewing something until I can’t handle it anymore, and then taking a big sip of water to swallow it.  Why couldn’t I do research in a vegetarian culture?  Why did I have to land someplace where they eat meat the way I drink water?

The city also turned off the water today.  Apparently they do it frequently, and it’s the third or fourth time they’ve done it since I’ve been here.  And life just keeps going on.