| As always, George (my partner), and I picked out a tall shade tree
to hide under that was in the open where we could get some breeze while having lunch that
day. George began opening bottles of soda for our team of four well specialists, while I
began setting out the bread, peanut butter and jam onto the top of the action packer lid.
Little time had passed when we noticed a few villagers heading our way, then more. By the
time we finished our lunch there were 50-60 of them sitting in a circle around our tree.
They did not crowd us and allowed us some distance to eat alone. They sat cross legged,
very solemn, and waited politely in hopes that we would give them something to eat.
We wanted to feed them but we only had 5-6 pieces of bread and were at a loss as how to
handle it, so I asked a Malawian on our team what we should do. He said and I quote,
"Feed them all!" So we began to slice the bread into small squares and apply
peanut butter. Then we put several pieces onto the action packer lid using it like a tray
and began to serve them.
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Stuart Clark
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