It is Baking Time...

Today was such an AMAZING day! The morning started with me running about 15 mins late (which is not a big surprise) but the plans were nothing set in stone. My host mom, Shirley and I went for a watch throughout the village. We first stop at a woman by the name of Tete. Tete is from Liberia and now lives in an amazing house over looking the city and the water in Dominica. She is marriage to a man who was part of the second group of individuals set to out of the country for the PEACE CORPS!! He was group number 2. I am group number 79 which means 79 groups have been sent to Dominica alone.

And then we walked to a local villager with a unbelievable green thumb and he is he the local Gardner. He was not around but we walked through his garden anyways. After that we stopped by a man who does local wood work. My village is full of artist individuals.

Then it was BAKING TIME!! I set up and measured all of the ingredients for Oatmeal Raisin Cookies just like I use to make at home. Five of the local girls and myself were going to make cookies. The children ranged from 5 years old to 11 years old. I told them I would be done to pick them up (they just live down the road) at 2:00PM. I got there at 2:00PM and they were not ready so I just told them to come up to my Host Mother's house when they were ready. Anyways... we just had a BLAST making cookies. The girls were soo excited to be able to help, mix in the ingredients, and stir them all together. They do not get to bake a lot so it was a true treat for them. So we made about 5 dozen cookies which they LOVED and took some home for their mother and oldest sister (14 years old). Then we had lunch together! I went back down to the spring with the help of the girls. We went on a little adventure on the way up when we were trying to take a short cut through the forest. I did a little hiking :o). The girls and myself had such a BLAST this afternoon. It was a great Saturday!

These are the girls I was baking with. The second picture is of is some of the girls and my Host Mother!