On the second day here I actually
got to go to the annual Agriculture Show, which displays all kinds of
businesses of Zimbabwe in a huge and I mean huge fair. We were four Finnish volunteers, one Finnish living in Zimbabwe and three Zimbabwean students for our protection plus the two orphans Munashe and Loveness Chiko. Our favourites were probably all the animals and especially the
caramel coloured chicken(You can achieve that colour by spraying food colour on
to the eggs!) as well as the horses: There was actually a game of "Reise
nach Jerusalem" on horse back - very funny.
This fair is mainly meant for
every Zimbabwean to get the chance to get to know his country or show off his
own skills. Of course, it is also used for doing a lot of marketing, exchanging
contact details and sharing knowledge, e.g. about the way how to keep chicken
in your yard. Moreover, this is meant for kids and fun. There are lotteries, a few
roller coasters, horse rides and many, many animals, which need to be admired. The
only thing we didn't find were cow feet, apparently a real delicacy here.
Funnily enough, I didn't mind not eating them ;)
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