How To Have a Party!

This Saturday I got to help my family cater a graduation party! It was so neat. Let me remind you that we don't use any electricity to cook food here. So no mixers, or ovens or stoves. Just fire.
They started cooking the matooke (a type of banana that is cooked for a really long time in bundles of banana leaves) on Friday. I was gone because I had a field trip then a missionary dinner so when I got home they were done cooking for the night. But when I got up in the morning the cooking had started up again.
The cooking started at 7 o'clock. I think I cut up like 50 plus tomatoes. Um yah they don't have counter or cutting boards. You just use your a knife and the two hands that God gave you. I cut up some eggplant but mostly tomatoes from like 7:40-11ish then everyone took a break for tea and escort (that's what they call food you eat with tea. its usually some form of bread.)
It was so crazy to look at the back yard! They had 9 outdoor stoves. Which were constructed of three stacks of brick spaced out evenly in order for dried tree branches to be placed in between and meet in the middle where they feed the fire.Then giant pots that were probably three feet in diameter and two feet tall sat on the bricks with food bubbling away on the inside. They made boiled and fried Irish potatoes, chicken in sauce that they call soup, beef in a soup, matooke, fried rice , plain rice, greens, cooked cabbage, chippatis (their flat bread),and g-nut sauce (its like a peanut sauce but its purple).
They made enough food for 200ish people! We cooked until around 12ish.
I got to ride in one of those big African trucks that the beds are long and have a metal frame of sorts that goes over the bed. Then the cab is really small. We put all the pots of food in the back to take to the party.
Then I got to serve food! They put me at the "high table" its where the nicer food is served for the special guest like the graduates and their family, and pastor and other important people get their food. They had another table for the less import people where they served the not as nice pieces of meat and chicken and they didn't have greens or cooked cabbage. I was at the end of the line serving and when people got to me they were really surprise to see a white girl serving them food.
Funny thing... they didn't have forks, so everyone just ate with their hands. It was fun. You just had to use your matooke which is little like really think yellow mashed potatoes to pick up your other food. They also don't have paper plates so after everyone was done eating we washed 200ish plates and everything else. Oh just as a little reminder, we don't have running water and we didn't have a kitchen to wash. They just used some of the big pots and filled them up with water. One was for washing and the other was for a rinse bucket. hahaha it took a couple of hours. There were three women who came and helped my family cook, they were all teachers but if they weren't there I don't think we could have done it.
I would have brought my camera but something is wrong with it :( and next week is my rural home stay in Kapchorwa which it suppose to be one of the most breathtaking places in all of Africa.
Well that's all for now. I hope everyone back home is enjoying the snow-hahaha