Friday, June 25, 2010

Today I went to Annette's house -- She is one of the ladies in the church here in Masaka.

This is Annette, her 11 month old daughter, Hannah, and me:

This is her house -- actually it is just a room -- there is enough room for a bed, a couch, and a shelf to hold her dishes:

Annette taught me how she washes laundry:

And although it was raining she hung her laundry on the clothes line to dry:

She was going to have lunch -- matoke, rice, and silver fish (silver fish look like minnows) -- so she taught me how to make matoke -- Matoke grows and looks like bananas. They peel it with a knife and put it in a metal bowl:

Then they cover it with banana leaves:

Then they put the metal bowl on top of the charcoal stove and cook it. When it is done they smash it all up ( So it looks like yellow mashed potatoes but it doesn't taske like it).

Here Annette was having trouble getting her charcoal stove to light, so one of her neighbors is trying to help:

She also taught me some words in Luganda:

Kwoza = to wash

Kuwata = to peel

Muchere = rice

Mukene = silver fish

Mata = milk

Chai = tea

Amazzi = water

Manda = charcoal

Sigiri = Charcoal stove