Faith.

Friday's are our day off so after a much needed lie in and the standard freezing cold shower, we road our bikes to one of the villages for tea. We had been invited by the grandfather of our friend to share a meal with them in there home and honestly it was great and such a great experience!

The grandfather is 74 has 3 wives, 11 children (ranging from 45 down to 10) and 24 grandchildren! This little munchkin: Faith-princess being the youngest of the 24 and the daughter of Miriam!

I cannot get over just HOW hospitable these people are, clearly a poor family and with ALOT of mouths to feed and yet they go out, buy and prepare the most expensive meat (duck) for us all to eat. Cooked into an awesome duck stew and Served with the Ugandan cabbage (which is honestly so delicious!) rice and millet.

They seemed to very much enjoy our company and I know I personally thoroughly enjoyed theirs. They even invited us round for Christmas lunch, once we said we already had plans with our supervisors they changed it to breakfast! This is am really looking forward to...our Christmas morning will be spent with acholi people eating Ugandan food and then the afternoon we will spend with our English supervisors eating a somewhat (depending on what's available) traditional Christmas dinner! Think it's going to be great!

The only down side of tonight was the cycle ride home. The only thing worse than cycling on the Gulu streets is cycling in the dark on these streets! Street lights are non-existant and I don't think halfords manufactures bike lights with Africa in mind! But we arrived homely safely in the end!

Extra is of some of the people we spent the night with and the food.
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