Day 4: Lunch

Today for lunch I walked to Camellia (where I bought my lunch on Monday). The others in the office insisted the cleaner go into town and buy my lunch for me, but I was more insistent. From the buffet I took tomato, avocado, spiced rice, fluffy potatoes, chips, sweet potato chips, something that might have been chick peas, pork with carrots embedded inside, fried fish, carrots and green beans (mixed), and a pink sauce which somebody kindly told me was peanut (nothing like satay).

I asked for two of the miniature bananas, and the man who packed my food threw in a red egg (which I have just remembered is still in my bag). Back at the office, (where I ate my lunch) Christine told me that her doctor told her to eat two red eggs a day to give her more blood.

Today's photograph shows the size of the container compared to my laptop. The meal cost 2,800frw (it's more expensive to takeaway than to eat in) which is roughly equivalent to £3. Christine later told me that this is one of the more expensive places to eat in Kigali.

After lunch, Christine taught me some new words in Kinyarwanda. These are them:

yego = yes
oya = no
tugende = let's go*
umutaka = umbrella
ichai = tea

*I asked how you say 'excuse me' if you want to pass somebody. Christine said there is no word for this, you just say tugende.