The days seem to be going faster and faster here. It's weird to think that we've only got half our time left... but then I remind myself that the glass is half full and am so grateful that we still have another 5 1/2 weeks left here. There's still so much I want to do and learn. We already feel like part of the Abu's family, and I am so glad that we have more time here to get to know them better.
One cool thing about being here is thaty we're constantly seeing and learning new things. Take yesterday for example:
I came home from a much needed walk by the river and I found Margaret (Sister Abu) and Gloria doing this...
Can you tell what this is?
I couldn't until I got right up in there. There were preparing SNAILS for dinner! GROSS!!!
Gloria would pick the snails up out of this bucket, use a really thick stick like a mallet and smash the shells (which were surprisingly strong).
Gloria would then put the broken-up snail back in the bucket for Margaret to pick up and dissect with her hands.
She'd pull the snails all the way out of the shell, then pull off the back side (or something) and take out whatever internal organs I had no idea a snail even had. Basically whatever she did with it got rid of most of the gooey slimy grossness of the snail and then tossed the "meat" into a pot of water.
I've honestly never seen such a slimy goop of a mess, and I'm pretty sure my face has never been quite that contorted as when I was watching the poor (yes, I DID feel a little bad for them) guys get smashed and pulled to pieces. It wasn't a sight I was used to watching, but nonetheless it's one I'm glad I got to have here considering they really do like to eat snails.
Then they prepared snail soup with which they ate their Fufu last night. (No, they did not even try to feed them to us, although I would have given it a go. We got to eat Jollof instead, and that we definitely did not complain about.)
When I came home from my walk, along with being greeted by the snail smashing fest, my favorite puppy was right there to make my day. She's so cute! She is all brown except for on the tips of each of her little feet and tail where it looks like she walked through a shallow plate of paint. She's so cute!!!
I keep telling Spencer that we're going to take it home with us... I mean, how can you resist this face!?
But here's what Spencer has to say about it
Anyone want to volunteer to keep this little one until Spence and I have a place to keep her? :)
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