I am home again. The last day was full of events & emotions. Busy getting food items & cooking for the dinner, all gathered around 7:15.
I wish you could have been there with the asylum seekers & volunteers. The asylum seekers, the guys I call them, were amazing. Such culinary delights with little to work with but total joy.
An Eritrean vegetarian dish that was scrumptuous.
Algerian lamb grilled with tomato halves. Wow!
Ethiopian chicken and rice dish that was plentiful, fresh and tasty.
A Senegalese beef stew made with halal beef and wonderful vegetables - fun and tasty.
and French wine!
I wish I had the ability to transport you there to feel what I sensed palpably. Here are wonderul people: engineers, tradesmen, youth, teachers ripped from family - many tortured and dead - in a land that increasingly is running from 9/11 in any guise it can conjure up.
On my way to the airport with my loving North African friend, I saw headlines about individuals complaining about not being given enough millions to manage their futbol team or headlines about who got drunk when. And next to me and in my heart are real people who give more than they get and do not complain.
Thank you for following along my journey. I hope you will be inspired by them to respond.
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