"Living the Life" by Meredith Vaughan

Yesterday we went to the Sir Lowry’s Pass to make them lunch. Ms. Shirley asked us to make her tacos because they don’t ever eat them. Before heading over there we went to the grocery store and got all the ingredients for her and her four grandchildren. When were walking up to the house more and more children starting following us. As we starting cooking, the kitchen was packed! All the kids wanted to help cooking, so much so that we didn’t have to cook anything ourselves. I started getting nervous we wouldn’t have enough food for everyone to have one taco and one rice krispie treat. We made small tacos in the beginning to make sure everybody got some because it ended up being fifteen people to feed. Thankfully there were enough even for us to eat one and some kids to get seconds! They all loved the tacos like they were something hard to make or a fancy food. After lunch we cleaned up the mess we had made in the kitchen but there was no running water let alone a dishwasher so that made it difficult. Dish washing was interrupted quickly by children trying to be held and wanting to be played with. So I did just that. When we had to leave I got so many hugs and “I’ll miss yous.” This was so far my favorite day since we’ve been in South Africa.