OUR FIRST NIGHT IN BELIZE!

Dell, our sister, looked after us well and took us to meet a family she has tea with every Friday night. We were invited for dinner too and we sat down to soup. I asked Dell, what sort of soup this sister likes to make and she told me "oh she makes chicken sometimes and sometimes beef" I thought, okay that doesn’t sound too bad. The pot came to the table with an unusual smell coming from it. As guests we have to be served first, Great! NOT! I lift the lid thinking, whats going to be under there. I put the spoon in and pull out this huge bone with what looked like wads of gooey fat hanging off it. I act like it fell off the spoon and take another reach. This time I bring up some normal looking vegetables so I put them on my plate. The soup has a strange taste but it wasn’t bad. I was looking at the bones that were coming out and on to peoples plates and thinking, "this looks like foot or something" well it was!!!!!!! We were eating COWS FOOT SOUP!!!!!!!!! Hows that for a baptism into the culture! We hadn’t even been there 3 hours and we were eating feet! I told Teri, Renee, Heike and Luis and they have been here for 3years between them and none of them have ever had to eat foot soup! That’s sooooooo very unfair!!!! And after the day we had, couldn’t it have been KFC or something!

We had a good nights sleep and had decided that we would take the bus to Dangriga rather than the plane. As we were now in no particular hurry, we had time to do the bus thing. The bus ride takes about 3 hours but it costs $20bze for both of us to travel there. To go by plane was going to cost $250bze, no comparison, so straight away we were into saving mode. The bus ride is a whole other story which you will laugh at too. We had a great time with Dell and learnt that we would meet her mother who serves in Dangriga as a Speical Pioneer. We had a good nights sleep and were lookng forward to getting to our assignment. The bus ride is to follow, stay tunned!