Kenyan evening

On September 1st we held a Kenyan evening at my church to raise funds for my trip. We had a brilliant time! It took a lot of organising but I had so many people to help, including the lovely Sue who did most of the shopping and cooking - and the food was delicious!

We had set up tables in the back hall with all the things for sale and auction, many of them handmade by some brilliant friends. As people arrived they were able to browse and make initial bids, and then after the meal we continued with the sale; we made a good amount and people seemed pleased with their purchases.

The sale table

Bekki's sweet cards

Lili's pretty headbands

Kim's cute bookmarks

Lili's customised t-shirt

The auction table

Daphne's lovely jewellery and the print from the Eagle Gallery

One of Sarah's pretty button hearts and the other Sarah's cute tea cosy

In the main chapel, tables were decorated with African animals and jungleish-looking leaves, and at about 7pm we all sat down to a delicious Kenyan-style meal.

Here's the menu so you can read it!

Chicken curry

Beef stew

Vegetable curry

Plantains in coconut milk

Plain rice

Coconut rice

Ugali

This was followed by tropical fruit salad, melon, ice cream and sorbet. Yummy!

Between courses I did a little presentation about where I'm going and what I'll be doing, complete with the obligatory powerpoint and photos of smiley children - those went down well! I think I was quite nervous:

And then afterwards the paparazzi (aka Mr D. Murray) was out in force, insisting Jon and I pose with some vaguely Kenyan-looking things (errr) and taking photos of me with my parents too.

All in all it was a lovely evening and fun was had by all. Thank you to everyone who took part in so many ways!

Most photographs courtesy of Mr D. Murray :)