(Thursday, October 21, Day 122)

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Phrase of the day: Estuvo muy chevere... That was baller.

Last Sunday, Kasie and I met with a group of women to talk about gender roles in their society. It was interesting, so we offered them the opportunity to meet weekly with us to discuss different topics and do something fun at the same time.

Yesterday we had our first meeting, and besides all of the guys that showed up for some odd reason, it was a success! Everyone seemed to be pretty interested at least:
That was most likely do to the fact that we were teaching them how to make banana bread and chocolate covered fruit kabobs:
Yes, I know, the chocolate is way too liquidy! Thankfully, it still tasted good. Resources are kind of limited here. There are hardly any chocolate bars, so we used chocolate powder, like you use for chocolate milk. For our fruit we used bananas, apples, strawberries, and pineapple:
The banana bread came out much better, so they were at least somewhat impressed with us:
It worked out well. We kind of created different groups for the different tasks, and all of the ladies(and boys) helped prepare everything:
Besides setting up, Kasie and I explained the recipe step by step, and helped them only when needed:
I don't know why this kid looks so mad? He's the one who chose to come to the women's group!
Actually, now that I think of it, his group made the chocolate! Maybe he sabotaged it? Kidding, I'm sure our recipe was just bad:
Nonetheless, everyone, all 30ish people, enjoyed the food greatly:
Now we just have to wait and see if the ladies come to our next meeting; we'll be talking about nutrition (and how not to make anything we taught them at the last meeting?). Cross your fingers, maybe they'll actually listen and I'll start getting more vegetables and fruits!