White Ants that Fly

On Thursday, July 2, we celebrated Amy Cordileone’s birthday. She is the director of our Teacher Exchange and just an awesome person. We went to KSP first for a little while and then headed to Bamboo for trivia. It was one of those random nights that was so much fun. John Magee made a dance party mix for Amy’s birthday, but it would not play in the KSP cd player, so he brought it to Bamboo. It was one of the most random mixes of music ever, but it was hysterical. We danced and laughed and danced some more. Apolo and Obie were there as well. One of the “delicacies” here in Uganda is white ants. They are these huge ants with long white wings, and they fly all over the place. The Acoli catch them, take off the wings, and eat the bodies. Obie and I were discussing this, and he mentioned that I should try one. I said that I would if he would, and he said that he was allergic to them. After discussing this for about 10 minutes, we agreed that he would eat the wings and I would eat the body. We caught one and got ready to do it, and then Obie chickened out (thank goodness!!).
Apolo and I then discussed that he was bringing a cake for our 4th of July party on Saturday. I asked that the cake have twice as much icing on it as cake, which started an entirely new random conversation. Hopefully the icing will be awesome because they do not really have sweets here, and I have been craving something SWEET.