Good morning Colobus!

Friday after a swim at the pool, Kenny came over to the house to make Liz and I foufou (a sort of bread made from manioc flour) for dinner. Liz and I thought that he was going to make the sauce too, but apparently we were supposed to do that. It was too late to boil the meat until it became tender enough to eat, so we made a veggie sauce which ended up being delicious if it were intended as spaghetti sauce, but not so great with foufou. Antoine, the guard at the house, agreed with Kenny that it was a 'special' sauce, and politely refused a second helping. Antoine and Kenny got to see Liz and my crazy side as we juggled the left over foufou and played catch. We even managed to explain the concept of snowmen by crafting one out of the foufou after our game of catch was over.

Saturday I left for Nyungwe forest with Simon and Nicole and their daughter Senna. They're living in the forest for a year while Nicole researches seed dispersal by the chimpanzees in the park for her PhD. Nicole and I christened their new campstove oven with a chocolate cake made without a recipe. We were very impressed with our delicious masterpiece, especially when iced with Nutella...

Sunday morning our favorite guide Claver took us to see the Colubus monkeys. Nyungwe forest is habitat to the largest group of Colobus in the world. The group we saw has more than 400 monkeys in it! They were jumping from tree to tree over our heads.

Back in Butare last night, I surprised Antoine by cooking us soup and homemade bread for dinner, doing dishes, and cleaning up the kitchen. He stood at the kitchen window commenting in Kinyarwanda on how I was working so much, and encouraging me by saying I was doing a good job. I explained that in Canada I work full-time, and cook and clean and do the laundry all myself. Granted, it is much easier in Canada where the staple foods don't take hours to prepare on a charcoal stove..