Out With a Bang

We left Kampala on Tuesday, April 27 on our way to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for our final week in Africa (!). As we’ve come to expect, Kampala had one last surprise up her sleeve before I departed…

I told my host parents that I’d be sleeping in that morning since we didn’t have to be ready until 11am. No problem. When I woke up at 9, however, my breakfast had already been made and had been sitting on the table. Upon closer examination, it had been sitting on the table for at least 45 minutes. I was thankful to have breakfast made for me, but on this particular day breakfast was two pieces of bread covered in a brownish substance with two pieces of american cheese on top. Turns out the substance was tuna (I thought it was peanut butter). This might have been delicious if the bread wasn’t wet and the cheese cold.

To top it off, the other option was a bowl of grasshoppers. You read that correctly. Earlier in the trip I had expressed a slight interest in trying a grasshopper. Well, I got my wish. There were 40 or so pan-fried grasshoppers in the bowl. Each was about an inch and a half long, appeared to be a translucent, jaundiced yellow and had their legs removed (but not their eyes).

Yum.

They actually tasted just fine, but it was the combination of a cold “tuna melt” and a bowl of insects that made my stomach crawl a bit.

On to Ethiopia!