Today was the first staff meeting for 6 months- and I found it interesting that it ran for the same amount of time- if not shorter than the monthly variety: all day :) 9am to 4pm with an hour for lunch.
What I wanted to tell you about though was the trip home. Now that I live ‘up the mountain’ I offered to provide the lift home from the meeting for the 4 staff members that live nearby. So, we left the office at 4.30 and I thought awesome, home by 5.30 before dark to get water and cook dinner’.
Wrong.
The first requested stop was a roasted maize stall for snacks, then the bank for cash, the supermarket for some groceries, the market for tomatoes and of course…2 fresh fish and a large bag of dried ones. Now I must admit at this stage that I had already stashed two sacks of reasonably ripe cow manure in the troopie and was also carrying half a sack of particularly smelly fruit as a gift to someone in the village…but the fish tipped the scales. Then, half way up the hill we stopped for three large bundles of firewood and a little further on three huge sacks of charcoal and the chiefs wife who wanted a lift further down the road. By this point I was thinking it was all a bit ridiculous. But we didn’t stop any more cos there wasn’t any room. By the time I had dropped everyone and their shopping off it was after 7pm.
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before, but in the nearest ‘town’ there is a little restaurant that does particularly good goat stew or chicken stew with rice or ugali. Yay for Neptunes!
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