Food

The food was awesome.

I ate some interesting things over there, and it was all delicious. I don’t want to write too much about it, so here’s a quick rundown:

• We went to a restaurant called Joe’s. It had a great, unique atmosphere, and the kind of food you’d expect to get in Africa. I had a skewer of giant hunks of meat that included oryx, kudu (both animals are similar to a gazelle or an antelope), zebra, crocodile, and ostrich. The zebra was the best. I also tried snails for the first time, but that doesn’t seem like a particularly African thing. One of the other guys at our table ordered a “beef knuckle”, which looked exactly like the humongous chunk of meat on a dinosaur bone that Fred Flintstone always ordered in the cartoons.
• Auguste prepared a traditional Oshiwambo meal for us one night. This included Mopane worms (which looked like caterpillars), some kind of tiny fish that still had eyes on them, and cornmeal. It was all great. I think I may have been the only one on the team who went back for seconds on the worms.
• Our host family made us a great dinner one night and to repay them, our team made dinner a few nights later. We made Mexican food. It actually came out really well – we all pitched in to help, but Jessica was the director and master chef of the evening. We had to google how to make refried beans.
• One of the guys at the church owned a nearby diner, and he catered lunch for us several times. He made some great schnitzel, the best was the ox tail. It was my first time trying it, and it was awesome. Just ask Jeff to describe it. He’s very passionate about how much he loves ox tail.