Living:

"mud hut"

"Lionga"

"Tina & Jennifer"

"little friends at soccer"

Within the town limits there are concrete houses with tin roofs but outside the town most of the houses are mud huts with grass roofs. It really is impressive to see these homes built. No indoor plumbing or bathrooms. Food is cooked on a pit outside. Pap, which is cornmeal cooked to a very thick consistency is the primary staple of most people’s diet. The diet here is high in carbs – no use trying to maintain the South Beach Diet over here because the variety of meat and vegetables is very limited. Certain dairy products are more abundant then others. For instance yogurt, crème cheese, and feta cheese seem to always be available, whereas milk is only available in shelf form (not refrigerated). It is true – coffee drinking is not the norm. It was a real treat to share a cup of coffee with a Peace Corp worker we had staying with us (Thaya).