...relaxing with my feet up, in the shade, on a hot Saturday afternoon, when our indoor house thermometer shows 30'C. Outside, it feels far hotter. The heat makes us all want to don our swim suits and head for the cool waters of the pool on the MAF compound.
However, at 3pm on Saturday afternoon, my meat arrived in a sun-warmed bucket, swilling with fresh blood. Kind Tanzanian lady Elizabeti had been at the local Meat Market and purchased my meat order for me. I'm
so grateful that I had Elizabeti's help to go to the market in my place, but there was still work to do at home once the meat arrived.
To try get the job done quicker, the whole family joined in- except for Andrew, who seems quite pleased that he was away from the action at home, busy instead in the MAF hangar monitoring the flight-following radio for another airbourne MAF pilot.
I cut the meat up into suitable sizes... Ben helped to wash the meat in Milton and get the bags ready for me to pop the meat in the freezer... Esther helped to spoon the washed meat into bags... Joel monitored my washing of the unpleasantly dirty meat bucket outdoors... Moshi cheered us all on with her "singing" at the back door- hoping all the while for left-overs!
Saturday morning had been a little cooler, so we all headed into town before the heat of the day, to try out a new cafe which has opened and to sample their fruit milkshakes and juice. It was nice to have a bit of shade around town, as we are enjoying the greener trees and plants around Dodoma following the recent rainy season. All 5 of us jumped into the car and headed out, over the potholes...
... around the diversion on Dodoma's main road where lots of digging is going on...
...and into the streets of the town, where lots more digging seems to be going on:
The new cafe was great and the fruit juice was delicious. We then took a walk around the corner to the ice-cream shop, where they sell some sweets, so that Esther could spend her pocket-money ( 500 Tanzanian shillings- about 20 pence). A pleasant little Saturday morning outing, despite the later tasks which required our attention in the afternoon!
What a broad education Esther and Ben are having.They look quite the little experts handling chunks of fresh raw meat and walking the streets of Dodoma.As for Joel,he seems to be taking everything in his stride looking quite relaxed and at peace with his world.x
ReplyDeleteEsther looks like a young lady about town, with her little handbag!. Don't think as a Veggie I would do to well in Tanzania !. A
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