"Kartoffelsalat" (Tuesday, 13. October 2009)

Another wonderful day. We've done a lot of practical work at RuLiv. Melissa is a five star in communication, Anna is a five star in process and Anil is a five star in terms of integrating us as a team and with RuLiv. I am so happy to be part of this team. Sometimes it's not so easy for me to follow all the conversations in English and I feel I am slow in picking up some of what's been discussed. But my team colleagues are wonderful team players and make it easy for me to catch up.

Tonight the Germans were to cook the dinner. This means Steffen and I were onto making a potato salad (Kartoffelsalat), green salad and sausages. We started out yesterday with the cooking of the potatoes. We were peeling and cutting them and then pored hot water with vegetable spices over the potatoes. Then today we put a lot of salt, peeper, some cucumbers and mustard into it and steered it all up. Steffen kept asking me how much and what's next and so on. I kind of got the feeling that we both had no clue about cooking. But we did it ...

I am writing this blog right after our dinner and we are all very happy ... so it seems it worked out :-). I must admit that the apple pie did contribute to the happiness a big time... So here the kudos go to Anna and Melissa.

Tomorrow is Patrick's birthday ... and we are going to the rural area Emalahleni... we might see and talk to some traditional leaders. So stay tuned for more stories.