our first braai hosting

OK sorry everyone its been a little while since my last post. The internet here has been very frustrating over the last few weeks. Finally back on though!

A couple of Sundays ago I decided to host a braai (the Southern African equivalent of a bbq) at our new abode for some of my colleagues from work. When I say host we really just provided the location cos we don’t have many chairs and don’t even own a bbq. We did provide the salads, dessert and Australian humour however!

Some things I learned from the day:

1. The Batswana (plural) love meat, meat & then more meat. We had fat sausages, chilli beef and marinated chicken kebabs
2. They also love their food spicy with lots of chilli. Tip: always have a glass of water on hand.
3. American R&B music is prefered to Australian music
4. Music at decibels that make your ear drums bleed is best – preferably coming from the sub-woofer in the boot of your car
5. Remember to buy your liquor prior to the sunday in which you are hosting the braai. Liquor stores do not open here on Sundays.
6. Ensure that you tell everyone that the braai starts 3 hours before you intend it to.

It was a fun day though. We might even invest in a braai ourselves now.

Our Australian tribute

Well we’ve been missing you all back in Oz, so in order not to forget what you all look like we’ve created our ‘Australian Tribute’ wall art on one of our lounge room walls. It’s amazing how many hours we’ve actually spent this week just staring at the photos.

If you can’t see yourself then we really don’t like you. Only kidding, we just don’t have a photo of you! But if you think you’ve earned a spot on the wall feel free to send a photo through (but no randoms please!).