Good morning from Madame Amanda and the Primary Five's at Nabwigulu! We noticed that one of the questions you had asked us was what we eat, and if we eat lunch at school. We are answering with a combination of pictures and stories!
Here is how we get lunch at school. At the beginning of each term, each child brings 3kg of maize with him or her to school, along with a small fee to have the maize (corn) ground up. Most of our parents are subsistence farmers (meaning that they just produce enough food to feed our families and not to sell to at the market) and so this is a good arrangement. These bags of maize are stored just outside the headmaster's office.
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| Maize storage, outside the headmaster's office |
The lunch that we (pupils) eat most days is maize porridge. It is a combination of maize flour and water. It is prepared in a huge iron pot over a fire in a cooking shelter behind our classrooms.
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| Our dear cook! She is wearing a traditional dress called a gomes. |
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| Teachers eat boiled maize flour with beans. Madame Amanda is enjoying lunch! And yes, we do eat with our fingers! Fun times! |
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| A Primary Two pupil drinking her porridge before going to play |
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And of course, one of our favourite things to do after lunch is climb the mango and jackfruit trees that are around our school and get a snack from there!
