What's for dinner?

Pap, pronounced pup, is for dinner. A data specialist who works for the Agincourt site invited Jeff and me over for dinner tonight. He made chicken, a spicy sauce of tomato, corn, and peppers, and pap. You wash your hands in a bowl of hot water and eat with your hands---actually, your right hand, because your left hand shouldn't touch food. It was delicious! The pap is made sort of like grits. The corn meal (mealy-meal) they use is ground down so much that it is just white with no corn bits left. They add it to hot water, bring to a boil, stir, and put a lid on it. At some point you remove the lid, add more meal, stir, lid, unlid, then stir the heck out of it. At this point it is basically a paste. Stirring is hard work. Cho scooped out slabs of it with a plate, and there you have it. Simple, not at all nutritious (pure empty carbs), but it is cheap, tastes good, and fills you up for a while.

The food was really good and perhaps better was the entertainment from another guest and his comrades from Acornhoek. They are local guys. Smart, sarcastic, teasing, and generally fun to be around. In the time Jeff and I talked to this guy (maybe 90 minutes) we decided to start a basketball team with him, hike in the mountains, go to a strip club and go to his house Friday night for dinner. He, of course, is a much better pap cook than our friend Cho. Also, he mentioned that his friends call him a "douchebag," which was even funnier to me with the local accent. Really a fun night.

Unfortunately I am beat after such little sleep so I'm going to bed early. Tomorrow I'll post today's pictures, which include a beautiful flight, many animals, and general landscape magnificence.