The date of this entry would have to actually the be May 13. Forward-looking way, I have everything required on a laptop, but the Internet cafe get open anything. After that I was traveling for almost three weeks in Mozambique. A recent report is, hopefully, soon, until then have fun with my past ...
Here and now I want to give some insight and examples from Mozambique's daily life.
What makes a young Mozambicans with its own plot, some money in the hand and the desire to move from home? Yes, exactly, he grabs a few friends and simply builds a house. That seems to be not so difficult. Everything is self-produced. First, the stones of which then House is built. Corrugated sheets are purchased and installed for the roof. The door to build something from wood, the window of iron, or it supported, as long as there is missing a piece of the window. I have noticed only active, so to speak last. The plastering of Innenwaende and soil. The cement is mixed by hand with a spade, a more than a man deep pit dug (the later then the Muellentsorgung serves) and the sand from it (the soil here consists only of sand) mix the concrete and as a basis for taken the floor. Within a week, so half-finished house built to be habitable. But really everything is handmade. In the first time in a house one must accordingly after each rain, the newly discovered Seal leaks and grind the door, which has unfortunately distorted.
So overall it is a corner but less complicated than our houses. Moreover, it scares off here and not in a home draw, as long as there is neither toilet nor running water, does not have electricity. Gradually we acquired the well, and if the room is too narrow at some point, is grown just in the same way. To build a simple house is then a thing to do given. Then I also know some who have at some point as a teenager just grown their own room at the house of the parents to the siblings to escape something. Then you build it, depending on the opportunity to participate in order to please the parents also have a good kitchen and everything course of self-earned money, and the teenage ...
cooking is right here in Mozambique, physical work that is clearly assigned to women. The men make in the kitchen krum a finger.
The Mozambican food consists to a large extent, of the so-called Verduras, that green stuff. This is usually cooked with coconut milk and peanuts. This requires that the coconuts are the flesh scraped, then placed in boiling water and then sieved. The peanuts must be crushed. must be very fine. That requires more consistency. After each time the peanuts are taken out of the stamper and the already fine be clever shake of the still separated into coarse. Then everything is cooked with tomato, onion and garlic and eaten with rice. Which is very delicious, but loses the part after almost a year to some charm ... In my family, my host sister is responsible for ensuring that each day something to eat there. In this task each family a daughter, the daughter, a girl who has lived in that house or a maid. Once the children are at a certain age does not the mother, but really nothing more. 
I made for my family once lenses and Spaetzle. A German friend had fortunately a Spaetzlesgeraet there and so I not only me but the whole family, made a pleasure. My host sister with the same enthusiasm and all try and would like to learn, but unfortunately since then There Were never lenses and Spaetzle, maybe because I have ran it again :-)
A question I've posed quite a long time: How to make really cows over a river? Here the answer is: Simply connect
take a boat. Unlike the Swabian train all animals must have come alive to the other side, as it is but they go so they could not tell me but ...
How is the poor chicken is gone, was slain by me I know not, unfortunately. Of course, it's actually here now and then to kill even a chicken. In the markets they are sold in numerous narrow cages. An Austrian friend and I wanted to try it now. Grossangekuendigter our will is in effect, but rather shrunk. We both had a lot of total compassion for the animals. (Slaughtered and their refusal even ...) But with the statement of two Mozambicans but ultimately we had to make it through and as said before. A handful of Mozambicans have is amusing about the two whites who have compassion for chickens and do not dare to take a knife in his hand. I found it a bit creepy, but we bravely slaughtered and plucked and roasted. Maybe not my most fantastic experience here, but really one must if one eats meat can kill the animals too, right?
Today I have learned at least in the theological clarification of my host mother that only chickens die and have no life after death. My host brother and sister had trouble because of two small bags of chips, so has my host mother decided that they will have on Saturday in the children's church because they would do impossible, and in our people, it is so, in contrast to chickens (!), After the death is not so easy over. Then let's hope that the church is good for children. I will unfortunately not see this week what they have learned there then, from Friday I will travel namely. About two weeks, the first station is Beira, about 1000 km in the north continue to be. Looking forward a bit now to see more of Mozambique, about Huehnerhimmel Menschenhoelle and I'm going to be during the hours of Chapafahrt make some detail thoughts ...
What makes a young Mozambicans with its own plot, some money in the hand and the desire to move from home? Yes, exactly, he grabs a few friends and simply builds a house. That seems to be not so difficult. Everything is self-produced. First, the stones of which then House is built. Corrugated sheets are purchased and installed for the roof. The door to build something from wood, the window of iron, or it supported, as long as there is missing a piece of the window. I have noticed only active, so to speak last. The plastering of Innenwaende and soil. The cement is mixed by hand with a spade, a more than a man deep pit dug (the later then the Muellentsorgung serves) and the sand from it (the soil here consists only of sand) mix the concrete and as a basis for taken the floor. Within a week, so half-finished house built to be habitable. But really everything is handmade. In the first time in a house one must accordingly after each rain, the newly discovered Seal leaks and grind the door, which has unfortunately distorted.
So overall it is a corner but less complicated than our houses. Moreover, it scares off here and not in a home draw, as long as there is neither toilet nor running water, does not have electricity. Gradually we acquired the well, and if the room is too narrow at some point, is grown just in the same way. To build a simple house is then a thing to do given. Then I also know some who have at some point as a teenager just grown their own room at the house of the parents to the siblings to escape something. Then you build it, depending on the opportunity to participate in order to please the parents also have a good kitchen and everything course of self-earned money, and the teenage ... cooking is right here in Mozambique, physical work that is clearly assigned to women. The men make in the kitchen krum a finger.
The Mozambican food consists to a large extent, of the so-called Verduras, that green stuff. This is usually cooked with coconut milk and peanuts. This requires that the coconuts are the flesh scraped, then placed in boiling water and then sieved. The peanuts must be crushed. must be very fine. That requires more consistency. After each time the peanuts are taken out of the stamper and the already fine be clever shake of the still separated into coarse. Then everything is cooked with tomato, onion and garlic and eaten with rice. Which is very delicious, but loses the part after almost a year to some charm ... In my family, my host sister is responsible for ensuring that each day something to eat there. In this task each family a daughter, the daughter, a girl who has lived in that house or a maid. Once the children are at a certain age does not the mother, but really nothing more. I made for my family once lenses and Spaetzle. A German friend had fortunately a Spaetzlesgeraet there and so I not only me but the whole family, made a pleasure. My host sister with the same enthusiasm and all try and would like to learn, but unfortunately since then There Were never lenses and Spaetzle, maybe because I have ran it again :-)
A question I've posed quite a long time: How to make really cows over a river? Here the answer is: Simply connect
take a boat. Unlike the Swabian train all animals must have come alive to the other side, as it is but they go so they could not tell me but ...
How is the poor chicken is gone, was slain by me I know not, unfortunately. Of course, it's actually here now and then to kill even a chicken. In the markets they are sold in numerous narrow cages. An Austrian friend and I wanted to try it now. Grossangekuendigter our will is in effect, but rather shrunk. We both had a lot of total compassion for the animals. (Slaughtered and their refusal even ...) But with the statement of two Mozambicans but ultimately we had to make it through and as said before. A handful of Mozambicans have is amusing about the two whites who have compassion for chickens and do not dare to take a knife in his hand. I found it a bit creepy, but we bravely slaughtered and plucked and roasted. Maybe not my most fantastic experience here, but really one must if one eats meat can kill the animals too, right?
Today I have learned at least in the theological clarification of my host mother that only chickens die and have no life after death. My host brother and sister had trouble because of two small bags of chips, so has my host mother decided that they will have on Saturday in the children's church because they would do impossible, and in our people, it is so, in contrast to chickens (!), After the death is not so easy over. Then let's hope that the church is good for children. I will unfortunately not see this week what they have learned there then, from Friday I will travel namely. About two weeks, the first station is Beira, about 1000 km in the north continue to be. Looking forward a bit now to see more of Mozambique, about Huehnerhimmel Menschenhoelle and I'm going to be during the hours of Chapafahrt make some detail thoughts ...
