The refugee Birthday Party

11 February, 2007

01 Ade and Dilla digging out the Kudu roast 02 Jamie and Ade with the roast Kudu 03 The kudu goes to the map room 04 The birthday party goers 05 Ade does his stuff 06 Ade explains how to roast a haunch of kudu
01 Ade and Dilla... 02 Jamie and Ade... 03 The kudu goes... 04 The birthday ... 05 Ade does his ... 06 Ade explains ...
07 Hermann explains about the guppies 08 Derek Salomon and Robin Pope 09 Sarah, and Johnny 10 Serving out the kudu 11 The aftermath 12 Cary makes go-goo eyes at Derek
07 Hermann expla... 08 Derek Salomon... 09 Sarah, and Jo... 10 Serving out t... 11 The aftermath... 12 Cary makes go...
13 Bar-b-qued kudu anyone 14 Fernando, Phil and Robin getting out of the rain 15 Help yourself! 16 - and they do! 17 The refugees 18 All the refugees
13 Bar-b-qued ku... 14 Fernando, Phi... 15 Help yourself... 16 - and they do... 17 The refugees.jpg 18 All the refug...
19 One of the birthday cakes
19 One of the bi...

 

During the floods here at the end of January and the beginning of February, there was a sense of boredom and frustration in the camp.  This was relieved by any excuse for a party or celebration.  The generators were turned on specially so that we could all watch the Scotland-England rugby match, for example.  The weekend of 10-11 Feb was the occasion for a birthday party.  Ade from Flatdogs, Mark the general manage of Kapani and Tamarra one of the secretaries at Kapani all had their birthdays near this weekend.  A whole rear haunch of kudu had been saved from the freezer in Flatdogs after the flooding started and cut off the power to the freezers, and this seemed the occasion to roast it.

Ade was down on the Airport road at 5:45 to buy charcoal and banana leaves to use to roast the kudu haunch.  A pit was dug, the charcoal was lighted at the bottom of the pit, and the haunch was carefully wrapped in banana leaves and placed on top of the lighted charcoal.  The whole thing was then covered over in the earth dug out of the pit.  After about 5 hours it was dug out, and ceremoniously carried to the map room where we have all been eating during these stressful times.

This was also the occasion for a group photograph of the refugees!

 

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