July 7: Last Sunday in Moshi

Today was my last Sunday in Moshi!  Next weekend we are going on an overnight safari to Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara, and Tarangire--leaving early Saturday morning, and getting back late Sunday night.

Last night, we told mama we wanted to teach her how to make s'mores--an American dessert.  We ran out of time last night, so I told her we could just do it tomorrow instead.  Well, I meant tomorrow night.  

So this morning, mama said welcome for tea, but there was no food like usual--no bread, no egg, no banana... nothing!  I didn't think anything of this at first, finished drinking my tea, and started to get dressed for church.  I only had ten minutes to get ready, and I hear mama say Rachel, charcoal is ready.  I step into the kitchen and sure enough, mama had pulled out the marshmallows, chocolates, and digestives (our substitute for graham crackers) that I had showed her last night, and she had charcoal burning and ready for me to show her how to make s'mores.  So... that was a little unexpected.  It was 8:30am, and I needed to leave for church veryyyy soon.  I found this very entertaining, and quickly showed mama how to make s'mores.  I also soon discovered that she wanted to serve us s'mores with our tea, which is why she didn't give us other food this morning.  I guess we didn't make it clear that s'mores was an after-dinner type of dessert, not a breakfast food.  We thought that was obvious, but how could it have been? Mama and Derick enjoyed the s'mores though, so that was good!

Making s'mores in the kitchen at 8:30 in the morning!

I took a s'mores to go and met up with Grace and Ume to walk to our professor's house.  We were going to church with Francis and his wife.  It was an outdoor baptist church with a white pastor from Ohio.  I really liked the outdoor setting, and the singing.  The words were projected onto a big screen, and I had a good time singing along.  

After church, I just went home and read my book (Gone Girl), took a quick nap, had chips maiya for lunch, and worked out.  When I was done working out, Derick asked me to play outside, so I followed him out the door.  We walked out of our compound and to the path where a lot of other kids were playing.  Na saw me and we basically ran to each other, haha.  I missed her!  Since it was winter break, she went to stay with her aunt, so it's been a month since I saw her last.  She followed me around all night holding my hand.  She's so cute, I want to steal her!   

It started getting dark and mama called me inside to shower and have dinner.  It's back to work for everyone tomorrow!