May 29, 2013

When Adrienne and I were walking up the path to our house after class yesterday, Delke and Rookia (our little brother and a little girl who lives next door) came running up to us and gave us big hugs.  They were so happy we were home!  It was adorable.  All the moms were sitting outside talking, and all the kids who lived nearby were playing in front of all the houses.  Mama was also cooking.  Adrienne and I played with all the little kids for about 2 hours.  They were fascinated with my cameras, so I let them take some pictures.  They got a little carried away and I ended up deleting over 150 pictures from my camera last night.  At one point, I deleted 17 pictures of an off-centered green bucket laying in the dirt.  Thank you Delke.  After a long play sesh, mama called us inside for dinner.  At first she said she made bananas and beef stew.  They were definitely plantains.  It was really throwing me off because they had the taste and texture of a potato.  It was really yummy though.  She also cut us up fresh avocado.  Their avocados are so big here!!  The pit of the avocados here are basically the size of the whole avocado back at home.  I did a little bit of work and then went to sleep pretty early.

Our first class session was about nutrition, and our second was about Dr. Sia (one of the lecturers) research at KCMC.  There were some interesting conversations about the ideal female body type and talk of breasts and butts, so that was entertaining.  For lunch, some of my friends and I went to mapipa café (the same place we went two days ago) and we got the French fry omelets to share.  After lunch, we just had free time to work on our group projects which I am still doing now.  We present tomorrow!  Our topic is globalization and the nutrition transition.  Basically, it’s about how globalization has made it possible for middle-income families to become overweight through marketing/advertisements of junk food.

Playing with the kids!

teaching Rookia how to count!

Samaria and Sabrina

I love them all!

When Adrienne and I got home from class, we were greeted by all the same kids!  It's actually so nice to go home to such happy faces.  We put our bags down and then played with the kids for a while.  They were playing jumprope and chasing each other and I was just tickling everyone haha.  They turned the whole tickling thing into a game, and they push each other into Adrienne so that we tickle them.  The kids also have this game they play, where they dance around in a circle (I have no idea what they're saying but I think it's equivalent to our "ring-around-the-rosie").  While they were playing that game, one of the little boys got knocked over and started crying.  There was no blood, but I gave him a band-aid anyway to make him feel better.  Later on, he kept crying about random stuff and I swear he was doing that just so I would pick him up.  So he would cry, then I would pick him up, then he would stop crying and just hug me.  I guess I was reinforcing his bad behavior (whoops!) but it's okay, he's not my child... hah. Rookia and the other girls were playing with our hair again.  Then, one of the little boys started playing with Adrienne's hair.  He finished and she had a legitimate dread in her hair.  I couldn't help but burst out laughing, but I felt bad afterwards when it took her 20 minutes to get the dread out.  That's why you don't let little boys play with your hair.  For dinner, we had rice with lentils (I think?) and spinach (I think?).  We also had this homemade juice our mama makes that is delicious--orange, sweet banana, carrot, and passion fruit.  yum!  Now, Adrienne and I have to do some homework and prepare for our presentations that we are giving tomorrow!!