Pizza and Birthday

A group that one of our QA's belongs to at home decided to send some hammers to a group of Afghan carpenters building a Sea Hut for us.  They only had a couple of hammers between the 10 of them and the ones they had weren't in very good shape.  One day a box of hammers arrived with a condition, get the building dried in and this group would by them pizza for lunch.  Great, this was going to be fun!!!  Even better, they have never had pizza and were somewhat reluctant to try it. 

 

The day finally arrives and our QA and interpreter go down to get the food; pizza (no pork), some rice in case they don't like the pizza and some nan brought in from outside the base.  The carpenters throw some plywood down and gather to enjoy lunch, as they do every day.  We start dispersing pizzas in front of them and in our ignorance forget to tell them the proper way to eat pizza. (I should mention that their typical meal is nan, rice, and goat or chicken.  They break the nan and use it to scoop up the rice and meat)  As we're sitting down I notice the confused looks on their faces.  Then one of the younger guys gets up, grabs the nan and starts giving it to everyone.  Then they break the nan and start scooping the topping off the pizza with the nan and eating it. 

 

We finally convinced them to eat the pizza as we would.  They said they liked it, but I think they were just saying it to be polite.  It's a safe bet that there won't be any Pizza Huts opening up anytime soon!!

 

 

I had a pretty fun birthday yesterday.  We went out to the Afghan restaraunt, convinced one of the workers to put on our new favorite Indian movie (Dabangg), and had a good time.  When we got back I was surprised with a cheesecake (somewhat illegally confiscated from the DFAC), which was promptly washed down with near beer.  A good time was had by all!!

 

 

Home Front News:  Listening to Katy talk it's a non-stop comedy club at our house. 

 

After dreaming up some new adventure in his mind Christian came downstairs and yelled "Captain No-Beard is my name and Pirate-Shippin' is my game!!  Sera, you want to sale the 7 seas?!?!"

 

Lily managed to escape the grasps of Katy, Sera and Christian in Wal-Mart the other day.  Lily eluded everybody by slipping through the swinging doors into the bakery.  After Sera finally tracked her down Katy heard Sera tell Lily, "You're lucky they didn't think you were a chicken.  You could have ended up as somebody's lunch!"