Another Indepence Day NOT in America

We spent the morning singing patriot songs and talking about American food, traditions, and other American things. 

As a team we decided to make an American meal for our contact so we hit the town in search of things to make our American meal… shopping in Tanzania is not like shopping in America.

We figured that we wanted to make Mac n’ Cheese, potato salad, and fried chicken… potato salad didn’t work out so we made baked beans instead.  When we went to buy the chicken, our contact took us to the market where there was a man who had a cage full of live birds… so for $12 we bought two chickens and took them home.

Once home, we killed our chickens, took the feathers off, cut them up, and fried them.  We made our Mac n’ Cheese, baked beans, and had dinner ready by 6… but Tanzanians don’t eat that early, so we waited a bit before we ate. 

Before we ate, we sang our National Anthem to our host family and they loved it.  We ate our meal together and to our surprise our host family liked it!  After dinner we went to the back yard and taught our host family how to make smores.  Sometimes I forget that most people don’t know about our traditions… but they loved the smores and were asking for some more 😀

Our family had never seen fireworks before so we showed them the clip from the Sandlot when they played the night game… if that doesn’t make you miss America, I don’t know what will. 

And we ended the night with poems that we wrote about America.  Here is the one I wrote: