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<\/a><\/p>\nThe first cooks, Cecilia and Selina, arrived and built a couple of fires. There’s a specific technique with 3 rocks to support the sufuria (cooking pot) and the wood inserted between so that the fire can be kept even by pushing the pieces of wood into the centre.<\/p>\n
Meld landed the job of peeling 15 large garlic bulbs.<\/p>\n The ladies worked on the back porch, behind the kitchen.<\/p>\n Selina crushes garlic.<\/p>\n Sarah works and holds Angelina<\/p>\n Early guests<\/p>\n Edu brought a friend, Rahma (you’ll also see her in the back porch shot above).<\/p>\n Cecilia stirs her pot.<\/p>\n Baby Tina has grown, but maybe not as much as we’d expected.<\/p>\n Tina and Ngala<\/p>\n Meld and Gracie share a joke.<\/p>\n Chatting whilst waiting for the food to be ready.<\/p>\n The ladies of Okoa Jahazi enjoy a Smirnoff Black Ice.<\/p>\n The two Danish volunteers at Barnabas chat to our local friends.<\/p>\n Robert looks happy.<\/p>\n The kids are served their food.<\/p>\n Eunice is happy to be fed.<\/p>\n Tuck in there’s lots for everyone!<\/p>\n Maggy and Meld<\/p>\n Silas<\/p>\n Mary and Gloria<\/p>\n Before lunch some of the men had erected two garlands, and chairs were placed by them. We started taking photos…<\/p>\n But we were told we were improperly dressed, so we were taken inside, dressed, and returned as Giriamas.<\/p>\n It then became something like a wedding, trying to get pictures of us with everyone! With Samuel and Joe.<\/p>\n With Joe’s siblings<\/p>\n With Joe’s sisters-in-law<\/p>\n With some of the next generation<\/p>\n With the Barnabas team.<\/p>\n With Okoa Jahazi<\/p>\n Me with Jacob<\/p>\n The Danish visitors were dressed up too.<\/p>\n Kids having fun<\/p>\n And gradually everyone departed. Quite a day…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today was the day of our big farewell party, to which we’d invited pretty much everyone we know in the area – all of Joe’s extended family, staff and volunteers from Barnabas, members of Okoa Jahazi, friends from Mivumoni… I started the day by making mandazi ( a kind of dough nut, made with baking… Continue Reading Party Time<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","radius"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43dbc-nM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n