Time To Eat!

Eating in the North is quite the adventure. We had goat twice a day, sometimes three times. The staple food here is porridge made with maize or mahangu, both plants that are pounded into fine grains. You use your hands to take some porridge and dip it into the soup with meat. You can sort of form the porridge to make sort of spoon/scoop for the soup and meat. In the Ovambo culutre, we all sit in small groups of three or four. There is one plate of mahangu porridge and a bowl of soup with meat. Each little group shares their food. It is a real communal way to eat and I really enjoyed it. They gave me rice about half the time because I am not used to eating porridge so much. I am really glad that they included me in the group to eat together though. The last picture is funny because it is like 7:30 in the morning. I was leaving for the city that day so I had to go pretty early in the morning. Culturally, it would have been rude for me to leave without having a full stomach so what else should I have....goat and rice for breakfast. Does a body good. Actually, the goat meat was really good the whole time but at 7:30, coffee is the only thing that sounds good to me!