Saturday, January 07, 2006

 

Eli´s Favorite Dish

I think you are all interested in the exotic and different foods that we are eating here in Nacala. Eli has already established her favorite dish- today she officialy ate enough Nestle Instant baby food to make her sick to her stomach. I know it sounds strange- and she might even say that I was the one who wanted to buy it because I thought it would be like cocoa-wheats, but thats not true- she´s just mad that I keep beating her in backgammon. (I will admit neither of us noticed the box was for 6 month old babies but...). No, that was a failed experiment, it definetly did not taste like cocoa wheats or cream of wheats, or much of anything, and it actually did give Eli a stomach ache.

On the other hand our emprigada, Angelina, has started working and thats going very well. We´re going to try to teach her to cook some American dishes, and actually already made a shrimp scampi with her. That went well, except that she left the shrimp heads on, which was strange to say the least. I have noticed that Moçambicans eat the whole shrimp head, usually with the shell on. The other day I bought a pile of fried shrimp at the side of the road, and when the vendor noticed that I was leaving the whole head he asked if he could have them, and then did, eat them. Very strange.

(**some notable animal lovers, like aunt barbara, may want to avoid this section**)
We thought we may have actually gotten a puppy yesterday- someone who was looking for us showed up last night with a puppy wrapped in a plastic bag. However, the dog had an open cut near the base of one ear, obvious fleas and something too horrible to say in its ear. So the search goes on. But every other puppy we´ve seen so far in Moçambique has been more or less the same, open wounds, and scared to death of people. Getting a puppy is definetly going to be harder than we thought. We´re going to hold out for a dog that doesn´t look abused, but its hard to see so many dogs in such bad shape :-(

Also water problems continue here- we haven´t had running water in 5 days and we only have enough drinkable water because of the camping filter we brought (I guess we could boil it...) We´re also expecting more visitors in the next few days, some of our friends are taking really long bus rides up here to visit Nampula. Should be fun, but hopefully the water starts working again!

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