Kenyan evening

I'm just back from doing a Kenyan evening at Guides. I have been a bit worried about it because I did not have an activity for the girls to do and I thought that I wouldn't have enough to fill an hour. I didn't need to worry. I spent most of the afternoon preparing Kenyan food, chipatis, sukuma wiki, beans and maize, ugali and a nameless tomato soup thing. I couldn't stand the sight of them by the time we actually got to Guides and I didn't think anyone would actually try anything, but it went down a treat. The girls were all crowded around the table having a try of each of the foods, including the ugali (even after my quite less than encouraging note about the ugali which even I wouldn't try because it looked so disgusting). I showed them the new Education for Life dvd and my photos and talked about my experiences in Kenya. I showed them unsorted beans and they passed it around, two girls sorted them for me :) and then I unsorted them again :D then I showed them how they tie babies on their backs with kangas and some of the girls came up and had a go at tying a doll on their backs. It was quite amusing!! I got through everything but there was no time for questions at the end because it was already time for taps. A fun evening, an informative evening, and another tick towards my Queen's Guide :)