Lunch Time

There are two long tables like this one in the dining room. The English teachers eat with the students, while the priests eat at the head table. We sit with the students so that they have a chance to practice their conversational English over lunch.

We always have a salad based on cucumbers and tomatoes. This one has egg plant as well.

The rice is always mixed with short egg noodles.

So far, we have always had a red sauce with vegetables in it, such as okra or egg plant, and often it includes hunks of meat.

For this lunch the meat was on the side. It was tinned tuna, straight out of the can.

We usually end the meal with fruit, though apparently none of it is grown in Iraq.