Update on Dinners and Recent Plan B’s and C's

Update on Dinners:
Yesterday we had a wonderful dinner with our UN supervisor (soon to be our academic director at Arcadia) and his lovely family. They stuffed us with sweet potatoes, skewered pork and fish, plantains and Cantonese rice. I realized halfway through dinner that my face hurt from smiling so much. It felt so comfortable to be sitting together with a family. We told them tales of our inability to cook and they took pity on us and sent us home with leftovers and an open invitation to their kitchen for informal lessons (especially Mondays and Thursdays when we are without electricity.)

The night before we were cooked for by our new dear friend Ben. Spaghetti Bolognese made with Kenyan beef (I have NEVER had better beef- supposedly this is second best in the world, we were told Argentinian beef takes first?) and garlic bread and green salad! These are delicacies here, the meat is expensive and the salad is hard to clean. We eat most of our vegetables cooked for this reason.

Also, last night Selina pointed out that of the 4 meals we have had prepared for us, 3 of them have been prepared by men! I like Tanzania. :0)

Recent Plan B’s and C’s:
My computer at the UN is still broken. Yesterday it rebooted in the middle of my work 4 times. After 6 unproductive IT visits they came to take my hard drive away today. Plan B, I thought, I will just walk next door to school to use the computers. However, the computers at school were ghosted last night to be cleaned of viruses. Therefore they also do not work today.

So I sit here now drinking hot chocolate (which apparently is not sweet here) trying to decide plan C.

And I pass on to you the phrase I learned today:
Poa basi! (good luck today)