My interesting Sunday...

Sunday I had a fabulous day. It really all began over a week ago when my friend Ruben invited me to join him and some others for a game of Kuhhandel, a great German game (he had the Dutch version) involving trading cows, figuring how much a given animal is worth to you to risk $ on it, and then trying to swindle the others in trades of animals so that you get good animals and lots of money in the process and they get nothing. 2 German women were playing with Ruben and I, who were friends of his, and none of the 3 of us had experience in the game, so cocky Ruben was in the end very obviously going to win. Obviously, that is, unless the community came together for the common good of the community as a whole, and put aside selfish ambition and gain (which was clearly going to fail anyway because Ruben had practically won already) in favour of a last-minute attempt to prevent Ruben from winning. To rally the rest of the community to the communal cause, (i.e. the 2 Germans) I offered freshly baked cookies, nice coffee, french toast and fruit for brunch, and a walk in the hills. They accepted and the community triumphed, and poor Ruben who doesn't like to lose lost. It was really great. Then on Thursday we had our communal morning, where the 2 young German ladies came over to Nyegezi, we had a beautiful walk followed by brunch and cookies and it was really great. There they invited me to join them Sunday for another brunch actually at their place, so I accepted and thus found myself having a wonderful Sunday. After church, (which was great too, but church at Starehe is usually pretty great) I went to town and found their house and had a great time there. Ruben ended up coming too, and there were a few others, and we were served German cheese, real multigrain German bread, and German chocolate from Anika's dad who is visiting her this week. So great! And then it began to rain. Sitting inside sipping tea we suddenly looked outside to discover that it was HAILING in Mwanza!!! There were chunks of ice falling from the sky! Nobody here knows what hail is! Crazypants! Then when it stopped we went to a Gospel music concert in town organized by one of the churches, which was a lot of fun! Pizza with Ruben and then dalla dalla ride home just as it got dark finished a really great day! Sadly I have no picture to show you of the hail.