Pancake Brefassss!
Today was the first Pancake Breakfast of Project Rayenda! Thanks to Mike B, we even had 100% real maple syrup, which I don't think we've ever had on any deployment, even in the States.
Usually Pancake Breakfast has been on Monday, the morning after our weekly Sunday off-day. Since this is a Muslim country, we're taking Fridays off, the same as the people here. There's a dearth of good chocolate (any chocolate really, I miss Sublime Extremos!) out here, so we had only two options - plain and banana.
The bananas come from our very own banana branch, slowly a-ripening in our kitchen one hundred bananas at a time. We purchased the booty at a small stand in the market that's used to selling bananas two or three at a time. Imagine the vendor's surprise when we asked him for the whole stalk (100+ bananas for 300 taka, or about US$4.40)! Amazing that they sell these for $1.50 per piece in airports.
After breakfast, we started construction on our first house project! As of lunchtime, one wall is up and another is laid out. We also got two volunteers in this afternoon, Daniel B. (who volunteered in Indo) and Ally, a new volunteer from Australia. Now we are 8!
Usually Pancake Breakfast has been on Monday, the morning after our weekly Sunday off-day. Since this is a Muslim country, we're taking Fridays off, the same as the people here. There's a dearth of good chocolate (any chocolate really, I miss Sublime Extremos!) out here, so we had only two options - plain and banana.
The bananas come from our very own banana branch, slowly a-ripening in our kitchen one hundred bananas at a time. We purchased the booty at a small stand in the market that's used to selling bananas two or three at a time. Imagine the vendor's surprise when we asked him for the whole stalk (100+ bananas for 300 taka, or about US$4.40)! Amazing that they sell these for $1.50 per piece in airports.
After breakfast, we started construction on our first house project! As of lunchtime, one wall is up and another is laid out. We also got two volunteers in this afternoon, Daniel B. (who volunteered in Indo) and Ally, a new volunteer from Australia. Now we are 8!
posted by Stefanie at 1:38 AM
1 Comments:
Whaat!? I brought large amounts of real maple syrup (from our own trees) to Biloxi, twice. And also to Pisco, remember?
(Scientists warn that overdosing on bananas causes early memory loss.)
- David D.
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