Easter In Maduma

Happy Easter!!
I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.
Easter here is a lot like easter in states but with a little twist of African tradition. Almost everyone in my village is Christian so Easter was a pretty big deal. Everyone puts on their best clothes and goes to church, then they spend the day relaxing, drinking, and eating a lot.
To start the day, my 8 year old neighbor, Shokia, came to get me for church. Church was packed. The church is a big mud hut with a grass roof and some homemade benches of different sizes. Church services here have a lot more singing and clapping and tribal yelling than in the states which took some getting used to but now I love it.
After church I went to my counterparts house for lunch and to hang out with his family. We had ugali and chinisi, which is basically thick porridge and spinach. Its sounds supper boring but its not too bad. After a while he brought out his "Your Bible and You" book for me to translate. Its an ancient book that explains the Bible. We only got a few pages in when he asked me what the picture of the space ship was (they were talking about how science has affected the bible). So after a while of trying to convince him that man HAS indeed walked on the moon it was time to go.
On the way home I stopped by my guards house to say Happy Easter and he told me he had a present for me for easter. He goes in his room and comes out with a piece of a rabbit he caught the day before in the bush.
I figured since there is no way to refrigerate this meat I should cook it and it was actually delicious.
By the time I cook up the rabbit and then cook for my dogs it was about 8:30. I decided to go check out the Easter festivities in the main part of town.
It seemed like the whole village was there dancing, and drinking the local booze called Ulanzi. Ulanzi is just the sap from bamboo shoots collected in buckets and sold for five cents a liter. So I decided to sit with some villagers and share a couple liters of Ulanzi(to better integrate into the community of coarse).
To rap up the night I got to talk to the Fam for a while. All in all it was a wonderful Easter.