Friday, June 5, 2009

How does she know...MOKIMO!

Today I read an article about ethnography and anthropology until some of the girls came to get me to come pick mchicha (sp?), which grows wildly around the shamba (garden). We cut up tomatoes and onions and sautéed them in Baraka house to have with our dinner. I was eating in Maisha, but they brought it over to me and Lindsey when it was done cooking since we don’t eat the meat that was served for dinner tonight. We had a new dish at dinner, too, though. It was called mokimo. It looks kind of strange but it tasted really good! It’s mashed potatoes and corn with skuma (the skuma must have been really chopped up) blended in. It was tasty. It’s a traditional African/Kenyan dish. We also had chopped cabbage, which we have a lot and that I love!

After dinner, the Maisha girls got to watch a movie, like they do every Friday night. Since one of the girls’ birthday is today, she will celebrate her birthday tomorrow night but she gets to pick the movie they watch tonight. She chose Enchanted--so we all cuddled up in the living room of Baraka house and watched Enchanted, which they call “How does she know” because they all LOVE to sing the song “How does she know you love her, how does she know you care…”… even the littlest ones know the song by heart! It’s adorable! <3 It's surprising how well the little ones know the songs they all sing. Even little Frida and Flo, who are only about 3 and a half years old, know most of the words to the songs. Sometimes on special occasions--like birthdays or farewell parties--they'll have the little ones sing a song by themselves and they can do it! They'll sing a whole song--granted it's usually just a few lines repeated over and over again with a couple other changing lines thrown in, but it's still very impressive!

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