Today's Cross-Cultural Adventure...

... revolved around Twizzlers!

In case you didn't realize, I AM back home in Jb (sorry for the pitiful lack of blogging - too much going on at the moment!).  Yesterday, a work team arrived from the US.  It's a group of 6 who have come to do some serious manual labour to help us with some practical renovation etc here on the compound.  It's always fun to get to know some of these groups who come and go, as well as to share their treats with them :)

Today at tea time with all the staff, they brought out the Twizzlers.  Of course, everyone had to try one.  But imagine if you were a 50-something year old man who had never in his life seen licorice or anything even resembling Twizzlers.  What would your reaction be to them?

It was so funny to watch the reactions around the room!  Most of my African colleagues had no idea what to think of these crazy things.  And you could see on their faces that they weren't quite sure they were ready to try!  So they proceeded to egg each other on a bit, encouraging each other to take a bite, and actually finish their Twizzler!  Funnily enough, not one of them asked for a second one.  We won't talk about how many I ate.