Dos de Mayos

Now many of you may be thinking, is this girl crazy? doesn't she know her dates? yes yes yes, you can assure yourself that I am not crazy. We just celebrated dos de mayos, and here's why: it was one of my friend's birthday's. She and her husband are from Houston, and had originally met working in a Mexican restaurant, hence the themed party.(not to mention any reason to drink is a good reason)
Almost everyone from my program showed up. It was essentially an open house starting at noon and going till whenever at night. It was essentually BYOB, and then everyone chipped in on bringing different snacks. For instance I had been asked to bring 2 pineapples.
Let me tell you it was a great party. Just very relaxing. It gave us all a chance to chat and talk about how our second term had started, and also let us be free since we were inside a house and not everyone was looking at us because of our skin color.
We had samosas with gaucamole and salsa that my friend made, and then in the evening we had 'quesadillas' on chapati. Not to mention all the fruit and little snacks. We also 'roasted' peanuts..haha..
It was also great because we used the even as a giant book exchange because we were all in the same place at the same time for once..

I took a book that I had heard about for ages,but never had a chance to read--The Alchemist. For those of you who have not read it, I highly recommend it. It is not a long book, and it truely is a great read for so many reasons.

Since it was my friend's b-day, I wanted to get her something, but then the question becomes, what does one need here? We don't lead very exciting lives. really. So I decided to do what I could, give money to buy food, because that is really all we spend money on. I gave her a 1000 rwf, and told her to not spend it all in one place.haha..this is funny because 1000 rwf is less than 2 usd.

So for all of you who celebrated cinque de mayo, I hope you had fun, but I don't think you could have had as much fun as I did. :)