Name that Food Item (part ii)

Good, you were right - (I'm predicting the future here, theoretically this will post itself in a week and not just ten minutes after I posted the last one...) - they were BANANAS!!!!

This week we'll get a little harder. 

What food item are these two things?

Name That Food Item!!!!

Peace and love from Guinea,
Geoff

Nous sommes des volontaires!

C'est fantastique! Nous sommes finalement des vrais volontaires!!!!

On the 21st of September, 2012 the 22nd Stage of Peace Corps Guinea trainees vowed to fulfill duties of a Peace Corps volunteer. 

After crossing the ocean to a foreign country, spending eleven weeks speaking a foreign language, learning technical language of physics and math in French, learning how to teach, teaching, living with a host family, speaking in a mix of French and Susou, learning Pular, visiting the site where I'll live and teach for the next two years, innumerable greetings, climbing a mountain, seeing some of the first writings of man, eating a lot of bread - and even more rice, expanding my family by over 26 new members (holla G22), and much much more, we are finally "ready" to teach in La Republique de Guinee for two years!

Il me faut remercier beaucoup de personnes: My family (Dave and Judy), ma famille hote, tous les volontaires de G22, les volontaires de G20 et G21, les formateurs et formatrices a Dubreka, le staff a Conakry, mes amis aux EU, et vraiment tout le monde dans ma vie, franchement merci bien!!!

Sorry non French speakers for that, but essentially, I really am just so thankful to everyone who has helped me/us get to this point!  But clearly, the training has paid off is as much as I feel confident and have a desire to speak in French, check! - considering I'll be teaching physics and math both in French at the high school level.

But it's not just the language with which I feel prepared, but also the teaching aspect.  In the last three weeks of training we held practice school (l'ecole pratique) with Guinean students.  I taught classes from 7th grade (7eme) to 9th (9eme) and 11eme SS+SE/SM (Science Sociale; Science Experimentale/Science Mathematique) et 12eme SE/SM au lycee (at high school).  I was even the professeur principal for 8eme (ie the teacher in charge of grades and discipline for the entire class).  My class sizes ranged from 16 to 46.  Let me tell you, 46 7th graders in one classroom with three students to a small desk makes for quite a challenge. 

(Wow I'm sorry, I'm feeling very distracted and my thoughts are all sorts of scattered - also people are waiting to use the computer so I may have to cut this short and what not.)

Since I'm losing my focus I'll simply end with a photo the l'equipe de physique a la fin de l'ecole pratique!

Peace and love in Guinea!
Geoff le professeur de mathematique et la physique

Name that Food Item Challenge (part i)

Dearest friends,

I would like to commence with a challenge, a challenge I pose to you, to name the food item presented in each of the following pictures.

I'm going to see if I can write several of these posts but have them posted at various times, to give you chances to guess (and for me to take pictures of more challenging food items).

We'll start with an easy one:

Naaaaammme thaaaaaat Fooood Item!!!!

(P.S. this is taken off the railing of the house I stayed in during site visit.  In this picture though, you can also see the actual "house" I'll be staying in for the next two years. It's those three doors there, I'll tell you more about it later.)

Peace and love from Guinea,
Geoff-in-Guinea