Sunday gathering

"Mukaja, zena zena, sarr, jebena." This is what I repeat to myself over and over after today's coffee ceremony trying desperately to remember the names of the different paraphernalia used. The jebena is the clay coffee pot, sarr is grass that is spread on the ground where the ceremony is performed, and mukaja & zena-zena are the wooden mortar and pestle used to pulverize the roasted coffee beans. There are other objects as well, but I resigned myself to learn them little by little.
During the coffee ceremony today, the owner of the guesthouse came by along with her daughter, who are Rwandan, and her daughter's boyfriend, who is Italian. They are really wonderful people, and I sat with the daughter and her boyfriend and we traded different stories about the places we come from and places we've visited. It was a nice time to sit back, sip our coffee and snack on a bowl of popcorn and just enjoy a lazy Sunday afternoon.