Cookies!!

I taught Form 1 Chemistry today and tried an activity with the students but they didn’t quite understand. I had them get into 2 lines; one boys, one girls. Then I would ask the first person in the lines a question based on the material covered. Only the students at the front of each line were supposed to answer and then both students would go to the back of the line. A few students may have understood but most didn’t seem to. It made me realize that I will have to teach my students how class games work because the students have not grown up with it - it is new to them. Marilyn observed me and said I’ll be fine teaching. More reinforcement doesn’t hurt.

The guys went for charcoal and beer in the village so were we able to make pizza again and try banana beer. The local brew smelled a little like bananas but was so fizzy from fermentation that I had trouble getting a taste, which was really yeasty when I did. To top off the pizza, I made cookies! I went with my favorite to bake: chocolate chip cookies. Only, Marilyn didn’t have any plain chocolate and it’s not available in the village. She did have some Halloween chocolate. For the first half of the dough, I made cookies with pieces of a Reese’s peanut butter cup, a Take-5, or a Kit-Kat. Then I mixed some (drinking) cocoa into the mix and finished by making cookies with peanuts and /or peanut butter. It took forever because I could only cook 5-6 at one time in a jiko (stove) oven that doesn’t quite reach the proper cooking temp. It was worth it though because the cookies tasted scrumptious and now I feel confident enough to make cookies for my host family.