Our CBT has suffered a casualty. Tim got sick last night with a fever and vomiting so he couldn’t make it to class today. It’s too bad because he missed our goodbye to the school. We were given money from PC and bought meat sambusas, fried biscuits, and soda for the teachers during chai time. I gave a short speech in Kiswahili thanking the teachers and the others said a few words too. We also invited a couple of students to represent the student body and we gave them a soccer ball and net ball (volleyball) for the school. The teachers and students were thankful to us but I’m not sure how much of it was the snacks talking ;-).
Towards the end of chai, one of the teachers invited us to play soccer this afternoon. I invited the boys at home to some and Simon joined me but it turns out that I had heard the wrong start time and they don’t show up on time, or even close. We waited around for awhile and were just heading back when a few people started showing up. Simon and I bought a few supplies to make cake then went back to play. In the end, I ended up kicking the ball around for a bit (which felt really good) but didn’t want to wait around forever to play so we went back home to bake.
I have been wanting to make something for my family and found a recipe for chocolate bundt cake in our new cookbooks. It took awhile to get everything mixed properly, by hand of course, and also to bake it. I took it off the coals when the toothpick came out clean but when I removed the metal cup in the middle, one section was definitely not cooked. So I put all the coals in one spot in the stove and the same spot on top in order to concentrate the heat on the uncooked portion. It worked perfectly! The cake finished baking and didn’t dry out. We ate it after dinner and my family loved it. Too bad my run this morning was not nearly enough exercise for all the unhealthy food I ate today.
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