rhona's birthday

Wednesday was Rhona’s birthday. French toast for breakfast and presents before work! Because of course we’re all going to work. For lunch we went to the market to eat at one of the restaurants…nsima, greens, beans and an egg. Then isabelle, doug and I did some shopping while rhona went back to work…on our way back up to the house we stopped at the tailor and picked up the Malawian suits we had made…classic! They aren’t the best fit but we’ll try again. my skirt has to start at about my ribs and then is too short but the top is cute. I think rhona’s fits better. The med students and other vols around came for a dinner of pancake stacks with fillings. It was a good day.

Her party we saved for Sunday as we wanted to be sure that Rhona would be there (as the patients keep coming into the hospital her times for getting off work vary). It was very hot but we set up on the porch downstairs as our neighbors got reassigned about a month ago and moved out and no one has moved in since and their porch is much larger than ours. We had made loads of cakes because we didn’t want to run out and then people brought even more. Nice turn out of the community and the ants came to visit. They were all over the porch but they didn’t climb up the table to get on the food so that was nice at least. The shade of the porch was a good place to sit and chat and eat all manner of foods—banana, ginger, carrot and chocolate cakes, m&m cookies, apple crumble and ice cream (of a type), fruit (watermelon and papaya)…lucky us there were leftovers that we continued to enjoy for the week.