Cooking by Candlelight!
How does one manage to cook without electricity in Africa?! Fortunately our stove is supplied by propane gas....so, you can cook your meal. However, when the electricity does go out (which is a daily occurrence....and you never know when it will go out) while you are preparing dinner....you simply cook by candle light! Oh yes, and it really helps to use a headlamp too! A fellow missionary had suggested for us to purchase headlamps prior to arriving in Africa, for just this very reason . Brilliant!
A little side note: Have you noticed that our candle holder is fashioned from an old wine bottle? When you wish to buy peanuts as a snack here, the street vendors who sell them package them into old washed out wine bottles. Once they put peanuts in the bottle, they cork the bottle back up, so that ants and bugs can't get into them! By the way, this is the only way to buy your peanuts in Bangui.
A little side note: Have you noticed that our candle holder is fashioned from an old wine bottle? When you wish to buy peanuts as a snack here, the street vendors who sell them package them into old washed out wine bottles. Once they put peanuts in the bottle, they cork the bottle back up, so that ants and bugs can't get into them! By the way, this is the only way to buy your peanuts in Bangui.
