making lunch
there were roughly 15 people huddled around a giant bowl of rice, squatting, and shovelling the energy-rich grain into tired mouths while we monopolized the kitchen area cooking a multi-course meal. we were then served separately at a table with cloth and all- we sat eating with just about every child in the village staring at us until the proprietor turned on the tv, generally reserved for sunday afternoons in the village. we finished the meal in a room full of these kids sitting on the floor, their backs to us, staring at the screen.