A walk around my neighborhood

Late afternoon, with the cooling sun, I went around my surroundings with Michael. He doesn't get walking for the sake of walking, but he's learned to appease many of the Muzungu (white person) oddities. Just below the uptown area where our house is begin the slums. Michael advised me to keep walking and stay out of site while he bought us some roasted corn so he wouldn't be charged a Muzungu price. We also bought a large spear of sugar cane along the way and he used it like a staff until we break into it. After finding my corn to taste like burnt pebbles I amazed a little barefoot kid by handing it off to him. It's corn harvesting season and the stalks on every itty bitty plot of land are tall and producing. I saw a big two story high furnace for cooking bricks. Takes a lot of the limited fuel around - wood and sometimes charcoal. We got home by dark to learn the electricity's out yet again. Peas and rice and bananas by lantern light and early to bed.