Eile otsustasin, väikevennale mõeldes, shokoladimuffineid küpsetada. PALJU ÕNNE, OLIVER! J Loomulikult seisin taaskord nõutult küpsetustarvete leti ees. Muffinivorme oli ainult kahes suuruses: väiksed ja üliväiksed... Võtsin loomulikult väiksed. Ecuador on üks maailma suurimaid kakaotootjaid, ent shokolaadi valik on siin küll ilmselt üks maailma nigelamaid. Otsustasin taaskord retsepti veidi muuta, valge shokolaadi asemel olin sunnitud ostma valge shokolaadi õhitud riisiga ja mõru shokolaadi asemel piimashokolaadi.
Küpsetama hakates tuli Ailin, Omari 7 aastane tütar joostes kööki, haaras tooli ja lusika ning teatas, et tema tahab aidata. Ütles, et võtab suisa kokandustunde ning et viimane kord õpetati neile kuidas riisi keeta. Hädavajalik oskus Ecuadoris! Nii ma siis juhendasin teda, tema muudkui segas tooraineid kokku, luges igasse vormi täpselt ühe tüki shokolaadi ning kolm mandlilaastu ja panime muffinid ahju küpsema. Järgmine kord lubasin Ailin’iga pannkooke küpsetada J
Muffinid läksid asja ette, kuna lisaks mu väikevennale Eestis, oli ka Hannese, töökaaslane Rootsist, ning ühe rentniku sünnipäev. Hommik algas seega puuviljasalati ning tüki koogiga, jätkus tööl sünnipäevalaulu ja muffinitega ning pärastlõunal India restoranis lõunatamisega! Lisaks sain õhtul teiste vabatahtlikega Mehhiko restoranis kokku. Nimelt on mul iga kuu esimene teisipäev kalendris tähistatud kui vabatahtlike kogunemise päev. Tavaliselt sööme õhtust ühes pizza restoranis, seekord otsustasime aga suure nõudmise tõttu Mehhiko restorani kasuks. Seega õnnestus mul täna riisi söömist vältida J Ehkki Esthela valmistas meie eilseks õhtusöögiks pasta bolognese kastmega!
Muudest uudistest niipalju, et pühapäeval õnnestus mul mu telefonist ilma jääda... Mindo’st bussijaama tagasi jõudes(rohkem juba järgmises postituses) sõitsime umbes 15 minutit metroobussiga ja selle 15 minuti jooksul mu kulunud töötelefon maagiliselt haihtuski. Mu ülemus ütles juhtunust kuuldes, et , Liis, mul on väga kahju, aga tere tulemast Ecuadori! Jaanuaris Ecuadori jõudnud vabatahtlikest on umbes pooltelt juba midagi varastatud, seega oli üsna tõenäoline, et minugagi midagi juhtub.
Kõige koomilisem oli aga see, mis täna hommikul juhtus J Ütlesin eile Xime’le(mu töökaaslane Ecuadorist), et tulen veidi hiljem, kuna teadsin, et lõpetame täna hiljem. Mu ülemus oli aga unustanud, et mainisin seda juba eelmisel nädalal ja oli seega jõudnud helistada nii mu Ecuadori perele kui ka Tove’le(vabatahtlik Rootsist, kes minuga samas majas elab). Ühesõnaga umbes 40 minutit hiljem tööle jõudes olid kõik paanikas ja üllatunud, et ma ikka tööle jõudsin. Pean kiiremas korras uue telefoni hankima J
PS: käisime eelmisel nädalal taaskord projekte külastamas. Ühes neist oli ühel õpetajal pisike imik. See ei seganud teda aga tunde andmast! Nimelt kussutas ta lapse vahetunnis magama, seejärel klassi sisenedes palus kõigil tasa olla, pani lapse vankrisse magama ning alustas tundi. Oi, Ecuador J
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| Muffinid/The cupcakes |
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| Vahetunnis/At the lunch break |
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| Vabatahtlike ja õpilastega ühes projektis Põhja-Quitos/with volunteers and students at a project in the Northern part of Quito |
I decided to bake some muffins yesterday, since it is my little brothers birthday today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OLIVER!:) It was, of course, difficult to find all the ingredients and utensils. The cupcace forms were only available in two sizes: small and extra small... I took the small ones, of course. Also, Ecuador is known to be one of the biggest cocoa bean producers, yet it probably has the smallest variety of chocolate available. Thus, I had to adjust the receipe, I used white chocolate with rice instead of plain white chocolate and milk chocolate instead of dark chocolate.
Ailin, Omars 7 year-old daughter, came running to the kitchen as soon as I started to bake. She grabbed a chair and a spoon after which she announced she want to help me. Ailin told me she takes cooking classes and that the last time they were taught how to boil rice. An essential skill in Ecuador! So I guided her whilst she mixed all the ingredients, counted exactly one piece of chocolate and three pieces of almonds for each cupcake, after which we put the muffins in the oven. I promised her to make pancakes with her the next time J
It turned out to be great that I baked cupcakes since it wasn’t just my little brothers birthday in Estonia, it was also Hannes’s(Swedish volunteer, who works with me at the office 2 days a week) and one of the womans birthday who rents a room at our house with her family. Thus, I had a great breakfast that consisted of fruit salad and some cake, after which we all sang at the office for Hannes and ate cupcakes and then we went to an Indian restaurant for lunch. I also met some other volunteers at a Mexican restaurant for dinner. Namely we have a meeting every first Tuesday of the month. We usually go to a pizzeria, but this time we went to a Mexican restaurant since lots of us wanted to have Mexican food instead. Thus I was able to avoid eating rice today J And Esthela also made pasta Bolognese for us yesterday!
My phone was stolen on Sunday... we were on our way from the bus station(because we came back from Mindo, I’ll write more about it in the next post) to my house. We took a metrobus and it only took us 15 minutes, but somebody managed to somehow steal my phone within these 15 minutes. My boss said, when she heared what had happened, that, Liis, I am very sorry about what happened, but welcome to Ecuador! Around 50% of the volunteers who arrived in January have been robbed already so it was just a matter of time when it was going to happen with me.
The funniest thing was what happened this morning though J I told to Xime(my coworker from Ecuador) yesterday that I would come a bit later today since I knew we would finish later. Gina, my boss, had forgotten that I mentioned it to her last week though and so she had managed to call to my hostfamily and Tove(Swedish volunteer who lives at the same house with me). So, everybody was panicking by the time I got to work. I need to get a new phone asap! J
PS: we visited some more projects last week. There was a teacher who had had a child a few months ago in one of the projects, it didn’t disturb her to give classes though! She walked around with the baby at the break to make her fall asleep, then asked the students to be quiet when she entered the classroom, put the baby into the buggy and began with the class. Oh, Ecuador J
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