Ann Rowberg has been here for three weeks and she is helping me prepare the Thanksgiving meal. I do not think I will ever forget this holiday! It is an exercise in substitution! We have been working on this for two days!
A turkey is a rare thing and costs 28,000 shillings/ kilo or roughly $7.00/pound. We splurged and got a 8.5 kilo bird! Jacobsons have a weber bbq just like Don has used for years, but the charcoal is very different! Poor Don! I have no idea how he will manage, but he always does!
We have invited Erik and Bernice and Wema’s family to join us, plus some medical students. I delight in including Tanzanians! Wema’s family has become our Tanzanian family. I cannot explain this relationship. We are sooo different and yet I love them so dearly! They will probably find our food so strange that they will only take a small bite. They now love guacamole that they feared at first!
The cultural differences are hard to describe. When Orjantan heard we were going to serve a turkey, he asked how I could slaughter such a large bird! You have to laugh picturing me catching a bird to slaughter!
We will celebrate this American holiday in this foreign place with food substitution galore!...With people of all faiths! Isn't celebrating gratitude and Thanksgiving universal??? I know I am grateful for another year of life! I am grateful for a husband who has exposed me to this part of the world. Honestly, it is hard to describe!!
Happy Thanksgiving!
❤️Debi
I am living between worlds. I am struggling to figure out how I can belong in this very strange place. So on the brink of this holiday, let me say I am thinking of you....and wishing you a happy Thanksgiving.
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| Sunset from Baraka Beach on Zanzibar. |
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