Deep Gladness: French food

Monday, August 07, 2006

French food

I have died and gone to food heaven. When I arrived last night, I ate amazing French bread, duck, cured sausage, mushrooms, rasberry jam in vanilla yogurt (rasberries were wild and picked on the mountain I'm about to hike for three hours), port with peach cremè liquer, and red wine with dinner. I am now being called to lunch. Awesome. I'll write more after the afternoon hike. Perhaps tonight.

1 comment:

Reynolds Whalen said...: I'm glad you're reading the posts, Grandaddy. I hope I can keep up with them while I'm in Kenya. Hope all is well!; 3:16 PM

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Helpful Acronyms and Definitions

MVP-Millennium Village Project
MC-Millennium Congregation
MCW-Miracle Corners of the World
RCW-Rwanda Community Works
Nyamata-The town in which I live, about 25 km from the capital city of Kigali.
Bugesera-The district in which I live and the site of the Millennium Village
Mayange-a sector in the Bugesera District. Also, a cluster of 5 villages or "cells" of 5,000 people each that make up the Millennium Village Project
umudugudu-a settlement of closely spaced dwellings which the government built to house returnees after the genocide. Also the smallest official unit of the Millennium Village.
Aegis Trust-An international organization to prevent genocide. Also responsible for the construction of Rwanda's central memorial in Kigali
Rwanda is divided into administrative territorial units as follows: There are four provinces plus the city of Kigali, and a total of 30 districts. Each district is divided into sectors, which are in turn subdivided into cells. The MVP Rwanda cluster is the sector of Mayange in the Bugesera district; each of the five cells in Mayange sector has a population of about 5,000 and is considered one “village” for the project. Cells are divided into umudugudus, or settlements, of 120 to 150 households, which are further subdivided into groups of about 20 households.