Tea Party

It is a public holiday in Rwanda today although, as is typically the case here, this was not made official until yesterday. To celebrate the long weekend, I held an afternoon tea party at my house for VSO volunteers. As many of you know, I also held an afternoon tea in England before coming here, to fundraise for VSO so I thought it would complete the circle nicely to hold one here to celebrate being in Rwanda.

The tea was a huge success. All of my guests brought something for the spread and we enjoyed some real treats (I've never seen adults get so excited about fresh cream!). I also managed to cook scones in a homemade oven on my charcoal stove and they tasted like the real thing (quite pleased with myself!) but obviously not quite as good as Granny's!

Here are some highlights from the party including playing twister on a rice sack and posing behind the wacky portrait rice sack a la Brighton pier:

Scones cooking in my homemade oven over charcoal