So today the topic of conversation is food.  Before I came here I was asked what kind of food would be available to cook with.  I've been here over a month and i've got a pretty ok handle on what is available to us. Not much.  And what is available is very very very poor quality.  Stuff that would NEVER be sold in US markets.  Imagine cutting green peppers for 450 people but the peppers you have to cut are only 2 inchs big and half rotten. Or peeling carrots for people and the carrots are 2 inches long, half an inch in diameter and soft.  Or picking through hundreds of leaves of lettuce to find all the bugs, worms, and crickets hiding out. or opening up a 25# bag of onions, reaching inside and squishing into rotten onions.  Produce wise...our selection is very sad.
We drink a strange concoction they tell us is milk but it's called Milch and it's uh... definitely not milk.  An ok substitute in coffee but not the milk we drink in the states.  The sugar is a much coarser grain, so when i make cookies or something the dough feels really gritty.  But they bake up just fine.  Along the cookie line, i've become the cookie queen! We usually have time left over after we've finished all the prep for the day so lately Rachel has taken to asking me to make dessert for the crew.  My go to thing has always been cookies (because they're so freaking delicious!). We're talking 600 cookies though! It's no small process to make that many cookies.  Matt and I have a system down though.
Tonight we went out to dinner for Clinton's last dinner in Sierra Leone.  He goes home tomorrow :( very very sad.

first bite of african sushi...it was interesting

all dressed up for dinner

"ew clinton get your arm off of me"

sushi!

Goodnight all and Happy Birthday Mourad!