Cooking lessons.

I brought them much laughter. That is the best way to summarize the day. Last week I had mentioned to Mama Jackson that I had never really cooked Ugali and Mboga (the green veggies). She was horrified and insisted on teaching me, saying she couldn't allow me to live in Tanzania and me not know how to cook such a staple meal! We planned for today to be my cooking lesson.

I arrived a few minutes late, to find that I was going to have an audience. I brought the incredients I was to provide, through the door and found 3 other women who were interested in watching this white girl cook Tanzanian style! It was hysterical really. They do everything differently, from cleaning the lettuce like veggie we would cook, to cutting the tomatoes, to cutting the onion. They of course wanted to see if this girl could hack it, and honestly having an audience made me incredibly nervous! I thought I could mess up in front of Mama Jackson, but these ladies, I only knew one of them, and well, it would be rather embarassing if I failed miserably.

They laughed and I laughed at each step. I was like a 3 year old helping her mama. She literally showed me how they shred lettuce without a cutting board, and how to mince onion with nothing but your hands and a dull, mind you, very dull knife. It was loads of fun.

Afterwards, we ate, and man did we eat! And all of them women came to try my meal. Glad to say I have passed the test. They invited me back to cook anytime!

I was also able to visit the women attending tomorrows Vision Seminar, it was fun to greet them and them ask me if we were still on for tomorrow before I even had a chance to remind them!