Day five “Sunday School and Swallow Food”

Today was the first round of teaching done by the team, in the older class (1st-4th grade) Were Parker teaching and Scott keeping order, and in the younger class (pre-k) were Whitney teaching and Katherine holding down the fort. Both classes went well with Whitney teaching on Elijah and me teaching out of Matt 5. The biggest problem with teaching Matthew five is that there are some pretty deep topics, such as, Divorce, oaths, Loving your Enemies, and Lust. We had a pretty good talk about lust though. Chad had walked in and was listening when he asked the class if they knew what lust meant. They of course said yes and went on to tell us that before you are saved you are “lust” and that once you are saved you are not “lust” anymore. Scott explained it to them how lust is wanting something that isn’t yours his example was the candy he had in his hand. He then asked one of the kids to give us an example of lust. Up jumps Godswill who had been sitting in the back wearing his Barcelona jersey with Ronaldinho’s name on the back. He told us the following story. “So lust is like when you grow up and get a wife and your wife can’t cook good for you, so you start lusting after your neighbor’s wife because she can cook really good.” When he was done Chad asked if this was a sin, his straight faced reply, “NOT IF YOUR WIFE CAN’T COOK!” Scott and I just about fell out of our chairs laughing while Cad stepped in and set things straight with the class. After church we went to Thrills which in Nigeria is pronounced “trills”. Here Me, Scott, and Whitney had to try the national food known as “Gary and Soup” (aka Swallow Food). Gary is basically corn meal and water rolled into a ball while the soup is a spicy yet very slimy concoction with a hunk of meat inside it. You eat it by tearing of a piece of Gary, dipping it into the soup, and swallowing it whole. THERE IS NO CHEWING INVOLVED! They made up for the lack of chewing with the meat though because the beef is extra chewy here. Scott loved it, Whitney liked it, I didn’t really care for the Gary but the soup and meat were really good. Afterwards we went to the basket ball court in Karu Site, the neighboring town that is a ten minute Okata ride away. It is also the only basketball court in the area. Here me, Chad, and Katherine participated in three on three basketball while the rest of the team played football (soccer) with the kids. While we were there we got to see the bush that Kaela fell into during the football game last year. More later from the Abuja Blog Squad