42 days

"Today's topic class is..." the food.  Since I've gotten here I've had more chicken and rice, or chicken and noodles then I'd care to admit.  Most of the food at the dining halls for each meal is either rice,pasta, or pap, chicken/beef, some form of vegetable.  I usually get a pie and juice for lunch and then suffer through a real meal. The food really isn't that bad. Granted it's not that good either, but it really isn't horrible. But if you eat it for every meal every day you can get tired of it very quickly.  So, my friends and I usually go out for dinner at least twice a week. Thankfully we have 2 malls within walking distance and the restaurants are open pretty late. 

      Right outside the gate of UB (that's University of Botswana, if you haven't figured that out yet you might wanna reread my previous posts) there a few stands with homemade food. I haven't really eaten there except for this one pizza place we affectionately called "Ms.E's Pizza".  You would order what type of pizza you'd want, I usually get the Chicken supreme which had onions green peppers chicken and cheese, and then they'd make it right there.  They had their own brick oven.  However that pizza place went out of business recently and we're all very sad about that.  Besides the pizza place I really enjoy going to Nando's.  Nando's is a chicken place.  Not like the dining hall chicken, though you could get it that plain if you wanted.  They offer sauces ranging from Tangy Tomato to Extra Hot. I usually get a chicken burger, which has cheese tomato lettuce, pineapple on it in the Hot sauce.  Their chips(fries) are delicious and I usually crave it at least once a week.  

        Since I've gotten here and had the cultural dinner I haven't eaten another worm thankfully.  They do sell them in the market and you can get them by the bagful if you'd like.  I have gotten in the habit of asking for a fizzy drink instead of water.  To them soda is soda water aka seltzer.  Also fries here are chips, not just potato chips but french fries as well.  The one food that I crave the most, and will be included on the car ride home from the Boston airport is American Chinese Food.  I miss Orange Chicken and Pork Fried Rice like I was a little kid who lost their favorite blanket.