Hello all, I got back from training late Saturday night. Luckily Breezie and Joy (2 other volunteers) traveled back with me and stayed the night before continuing their journey home on Sunday morning. I know I've said this before, but traveling in Kenya is NEVER easy. We waited in Nairobi for 4 hours before our shuttle left for Eldoret. The trip home took 6 hours instead of 5, then we had to catch a matatu to my house, stuffed in the back seat with 17 other people. Needless to say we slept in pretty late this morning. I was so excited to get home and see Kibaibai! He seriously doubled in size, I CAN NOT believe it! It's so nice to finally be home, though like I have already said, nothing can be easy. There is still no propane in Turbo, so I currently have no stove, hopefully that will come this week. Also I spent quite a bit of money in Nairobi so I will be living off of rice and whatever else is in my cabinets until pay day. Im definitely going to have to get creative with my cooking. Speaking of creative cooking, my mother in America has been bugging me to start putting up recipes that I've used. I'll start with the basic Kenyan favorite, Chapati. Chapati is a type of flat fry bread, that every family here in Kenya usually prepares at least once a week, hence why some of us have gained some weight.
Chapati: All you need is flour, water and oil.
Start with warm water in a mixing bowl ( I usually only use 1/2 cup, it will make about 2). Add a pinch of salt, pinch of sugar and a few drops of oil. Start adding the flour and mixing with your fingers. Add flour until the dough is no longer sticky. Once dough is mixed, divide dough into balls. Take some dough and roll into circle, add flour when needed. Make sure not to roll it to thin. Once it's rolled out, spread a little oil over the dough, roll it up, than coil like a cinnamon roll. Repeat with each ball of dough. Then take the coiled dough, dip in flour and roll out into another circle. Start placing rolled out dough onto hot skillet with oil, one at a time. Let the dough bubble before flipping it and add more oil to the skillet. Repeat for each one. And Voile! Enjoy! ( you can also find these recipes on the internet, just incase my directions are a bit confusing.)
You can also add cooked and mashed pumpkin or sweet potato to make it a tad bit healthier.
When I make chapati, I usually make a stew, or saute vegetables and beans, and enjoy a delicious meal!
Let me know what you think if you try it.
14/12/11
I went to the office today, I usually just go to show my face and use the free internet. There is no real reason to go to the office other than that. But just my luck... no internet! And on the way in, the lady sitting next to me on the matatu was reading over my shoulder, every text message! Talk about no personal space..... TIA. I walked all the way to Turbo yesterday to pick up my awaiting package from Holly! Totally worth the walk! Thanks girlfriend! Also the post lady told me for future packages, if you send it to me as a registered parcel.. it should cost me nothing to pick up.... Im not sure what registered parcel means, but if you send something, check it out :). The next few weeks are gonna be pretty boring. School is out for the holiday and the JOYWO groups are over on the 22nd. Luckily while in training we had free internet, and I was able to look up a bunch of crafts. Hopefully that will be enough to keep me occupied. During holidays, things kind of stop around here. I mean shops are still open, but thats about it. So I will attempt my hand at hand sewing, painting, and more beading. Of course all this free time should mean I have plenty of time to work out! At training they fed us buffet style for every meal! So I took full advantage of that, and am now paying for it! Luckily my friend Josh is gonna be my new work out buddy. He lives near Mt. Kenya. So we'll be texting each other words of encouragement.
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