Energy levels

What we always worry about in a workshop is to keep up the energy levels of the participants.

Obviously, it is food that gives us the fuel to keep going. Now, after one year I still marvel at the Tanzanian taste for food, so I just have to give you our daily menu.

Breakfast - milk tea, boiled eggs, chapati (similar to tortilla, but fried), maandazi (a local doughnut), toast bread, sausages, banana
Tea break - chapati with goat/beef stew
Lunch - ugali (polenta) & rice & pommes frites & cooked green bananas & tomato sauce & fried chicken & one tablespoon of stewed greenery & one slice of pineapple
Tea break - milk tea, fried potatoes, liver in a sauce

From  left to right - maandazi, vitumbua and chapati, all delicious and still dripping with oil

Anyone sees, like me, a slight lack of vitamins in the menu? Yes, Tanzanians have a high regard for fried carbohydrates and meat, and this in the 35 degrees heat! I guess you will understand why I gain three kilos after each week of a workshop...

Now, the other important thing at a workshop, to keep people from falling asleep after eating all this fried food, are the energizers. Our participants preferred energizers in the form of clapping hands. Let us clap once and twice and done! They also liked breathing - let us breathe in deeply and breathe out deeply and done! They also liked standing up, standing on the tops of their fingers for some seconds, and sitting down again. It really worked nicely for them, but it failed to energize me...