Real home, but without furniture – May 26, 2007

We had such a fun night Sat night. Ananias took us to his friend’s house outside of Nakaseke district. Ananias has a great way of not telling us anything and just bringing us to places without preparation. It’s a bit disconcerting and sometimes frustrating, but this time it was like Christmas. We pulled up to a home that was an actual home. Bricks and stone and everything. Unfortunately, there wasn’t any furniture inside. When we were given the tour of the home we passed the kitchen where he said we could cook our food. It was amazing. I’m sure if we didn’t have vegetarians in the group (I’m a veggie for the trip and Meera is too) we wouldn’t have to cook, but without any women there we were given the kitchen to cook our tilapia. It was so much fun! No electricity so we cooked by headlamp. We had one dull knife and a whole fish. We basically pulled out the meat in the fish by hand, tossed it in a pan with tomatoes, onions, beer, oil and salt and cooked it together. It was amazing!!! We all slept on the floor of one of the rooms and had a great next day tromping around his farm. Our first day off. It was incredible. We ate so much fruit from his farm- passionfruit, jackfruit, bananas, some crazy sweet tomato thing, guava, and mangos. Yummy!