my first attempt at "gallo pinto"! black beans & rice, yummy costa rican style with onion, green pepper, cilantro and secret ingredient salsa lizano... almost always served with an egg. very traditional everyday dish, usually for breakfast. i've kinda missed most of the cultural experience here, living in an apartment rather than with a host family... but i had to give the national dish(?) a try! :)
i DO have a pseudo host family though! my friends Kyi Kyi from Myanmar and Ochieng from Kenya live with the kindest most hospitable family... they fondly call her host mom Moma Rosa (leftmost in the picture). i've been over a couple times and they invited a few of us over for dinner with them last weekend. me and Julianne actually made African food with Ochieng... but it was a treat to have some family time! :) (im not sure i would survive school with that level of family fun & hype every day though, so im more than happy to be living with Julianne!)
me and Julianne actually make African food every now and then at home... twice this week we had ugali and skumaweeki! (corn flour mixed with water to make between pudding and cake, with spinach stew) my most terribly dreaded dish in Tanzania that avoided at all cost including skipping meals... i never would've thought i'd willingly make and eat it here! but the Africans here (julianne included, at heart!) get soooo genuinely excited about having ugali together it's been rubbing off, and i actually kinda like it now!
and lastly for now, a smorgasbord of yummies last night for european night at our school! french crepes, swiss cheese fondue, spanish gazpacho, italian tiramisu... and even norwegian brødskiver.. basically just bread with anything on top, but it brought back good memories. :) the north americans hosted a traditional thanksgiving dinner last semester, the asian students hosted an asia night before Christmas with all sorts of amazing performances and a dinner feast...
and last night was cocktail party with the europeans! dressing up & classy fun. :)
more to come hopefully soon - i have some good pictures from a field trip for our course yesterday too. but we're wrapping up this course this week and have some more projects to hand in so ill have to see when i can get to it! and we're having a 3 day model United Nations conference at UPeace at the end of the week. i'm going to be representing Uganda on the Security Council... i really have no idea yet what i'm doing! hmmm.. i'll have to squeeze in some research time in there!
have a lovely rest of your weekend and talk to you guys again sometime soon!
xo
rainbow =)
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