Nyahuka Market is quite a place. Heading down the road from our village, you reach Nyahuka town, just past Christ School. For me as and American, I imagine it all one big village, but the locals are clear that Nyahuka is a town and we live in one of several villages around it. The market has all kinds of foods; meat and smelly dried fish, beans, bananas, g-nuts, all kinds of fruits and veggies.
Then there is the used clothing market. On Saturdays, the big market day in Nyahuka, the used clothing market comes out and there are venders up and down selling clothing brought from Kampala, most off of Goodwill type bags and boxes sent overseas. You can find some real steals there as I recently discovered. Me and few team friends headed down there last week searching for appropriate costumes for Naomi’s princess party (all gals MUST come in costume!). We came away with some wonderful stuff. I think the pictures might speak for themselves.
Also for the party, we decorated our kitubi (greeting house, sort of like a gazebo) as Castle Kitube with penants and banners and balloons. We greeted arriving royalty there and pampered the little princess with makeup, hair and nail treatments. Then we recreated princess stories with dramas (one of Naomi’s favorite things) and then ate soup and cake and finished up with gifts.
It was a truly sparkling day, especially for Naomi. As we both said, the best birthday yet.