Cooking with the ladies.

I am going to ignore most of the events that lead up until now i.e training and 3 month challenge, but randomly interject them into this blog. For now, lets get into today!

We are several days into IST (In Service Training). So far so good. I really think the staff is putting together interesting and useful information. Today we learned about creative ways of teaching. A drama group came in and performed, with one man being really good at fake crying, and luckily no AID's Babies came into topic. That seems to be a reoccuring theme "she stopped going to school, got a boyfriend, got pregnant and suddenly had a AID's baby and died". There was a lot of yelling but the acting wasn't bad by any means.

Our group got bused over to an NGO in the Southern part of the country which seems to be doing great work. They have all sorts of programs going on. One thing they are working on is education through puppet shows. They performed one for us that was funny and somewhat adult. Look out Avenue Q, we got to hear lines like "I will slaughter you!" and "Who has been enjoying you!?", the skit was about cheating and the characters forgave eachother really quickly. It's always funny to hear lines quickly and somewhat monotonely delivered. It was really funny though.

After the skit we got to see a play with some ladies in drag (not all but the 2 who were in drag were really funny), and a traditional skit with a signing group. After that some ladies sang and did hair. It ended up being very sureal as 1 man played the keyboards frantically (and without any idea of chords) while women did hair in a speedy presentation and children slowly started to surround us. It was one of the many sureal moments we have had.

One thing we saw that was awesome (and will have pictures later) was a cooking apron with a sketch of the female reproductive system. I had to buy it. I might be able to use it later but just for the fact that it was so random and would be hard to ever find again I had to get it.

That's all for now. We are doing a taco night. I will update on training and funny stories later, but that is what is going on now.