Wednesday -- making lunch and making solar panels


Hey Hey Hay! It’s Krista and Eleanor better known as Krispy and Kegg.

We wanted to start off with the most memorable part of the day, Adrian (the newly 17 year old) slaughtering a chicken. But before that, let’s rewind. We got a late start today at 8:00am with lots of rain to accompany us on our walks to school. Once we arrived, we had our second breakfast and tea. Aaaaand our new favorite snack: mandazi. Imagine a doughnut and a beignet combined to create a fluffy masterpiece.

Now to the most eventful part of the day. We took a cooking class on Tanzanian food. The first step was acquiring our chickens, which we caught yesterday in front of the whole school. The next step was the slaughtering… Adrian was the first and only volunteer, however in total five chickens lost their lives today. We’re going to skim over the next gruesome steps of defeathering, skinning, and opening the chicken.

Finally, we finished off the cooking class with shucking corn, cutting vegetable, and boiling rice. Putting aside the fact that we just slaughtered some chickens, we enjoyed a tasty meal. 

In all seriousness, we ended the day putting together the solar panel lamps and gluing them with the Banjika students. After that, we ate more mandazi and other snacks. Now we’re heading home for the night to do chores and eat more food.

Surely, we have to finish off the night with a joke because Mr. Schafer deleted our last one. (editors' note: it wasn't funny) Why did the chicken cross the road?
Because Adrian was going after him with a knife. (editors' note: editor came up with this joke for them)

Love you guys and we miss you all very much. Kwaheri!

Love, Eleanor and Krista (Happy early birthday dad! -krista)

we started with five live chickens

Adrian was the only Menlo student who stepped up to do the slaughter (We have ample videos of the whole process, but we won't post them here. We'll just add them to the Drive when we are back)
  
then we took the feathers off

chopped it up



and cooked up some spices


Later on....

       we assembled the solar panels               


         
and we closed our day at Banjika with a debrief and an ANCHOR circle

 

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