9th August

Every day we have breakfast and lunch at the school. We bring our bread, jam, tea and coffee and they boil us water. Usually we buy 1.5 kilo of rice and 1 kilo of beans to feed the 7 of us at lunch, and the school kindly cook it for us.

Today, however, we had been invited to lunch at Madam Mataka's house, the Headmistress. She lives behind the school with her children and husband. Salha is only 3 and is SUPER adorable. Her eldest son is at boarding school in Lindi. Madam Mataka is so lovely and for lunch cooked us pilau, vegetables and beef stew. What they call pilau is similar to the pilau in the UK except they add more spices so it is a brown colour, not the white with occasional brown specs we get at the takeaway, and it's really lovely!

We're going to have to pick the brains of Emanuela and Grace for recipes for mendazi, pilau and chapati to take back to the UK!

The Headmistress and her toddler and I.