Monday, January 14

Monday, January 14

This must be a quick entry because we are up early tomorrow for a trip to the far western border of Uganda. But I will try very hard to bring this blog up to date on Wednesday.

All is well here. We received a wonderful invitation from Bosco, who has driven our bus for many, many kilometres on this trip and on the last one, to visit his home for a pork dinner. We went Sunday night and had the best pork EVER cooked by his younger brother Felix. Also fresh tomatoes from the local market and finely shredded cabbage. Have I mentioned the food here is great?

Tonight we decided to reciprocate, so we spent most of day shopping and preparing a meal for Bosco and his family, Sisters Germina & Margaret, the ladies of Monfort House who do all the cooking and cleaning for us, Fathers Bonaventure and John Mary, and Brother Phillippe (who is from Madagascar and is staying at Monfort in transit to another post).

We recruited Felix for another round of pork BBQ, and made mango-pineapple salsa, beans, fresh peas, rice and more, topped off by a monumental cake made by Vennie, Monfort House’s kitchen chief, with ingredients from all the other kitchen ladies. It was a feast, kicked off by a tropical rainstorm straight out of “African Queen.” We will always remember this night.

Much more, including some “snapshots” of Uganda, in the next posting.