Shopping in Brazza

Arrived safely in Brazza, another westafrican capital that looks exactely like the others, I don't really get the French why did they have go and make separte countries if anyways they didn't respect tribal boundaries. Anyways Brazza seems like developping quite fast, and what surprised me (and I took it as sign of the wealth of the country) was the number of nicely maintaind parks and fountains that are spread around the city. There is also a so called "corniche" where you can take a walk along the river that separates Brazza and Kinshassa. It has nothing to do with the primitive/agressive imige of Congo in the films and media.

The most important thing we had to do in Brazza is to do our shopping for all the 4 month. Now u can imagine it's quite difficult to calculate how much rice u can eat in 4 months, bearing in mind, that you can't buy too much, because it has to be carried out there with the pirogue. But you should really think it through because u have to assume this is the only and last shopping u will do. So here is my shopping list for the 4 months (mostly copied from Celine and multiplied 1.5x because she practically eats nothing):
-5l of oil
-100 65g tomato cans
-6 kg of rice
-27 pacs of 250 g spagetti
-7 cans of sardines
-2,5kg of powder milk
-1 pack of hot chocolate powder (matinal)
-a bag of congolese coffee (I am afraid it will be disgusting)
-2 cans of green beens
-2 cans of other beens
-a bag of soymeat brought from Poland
-1 kg of salt
-10 kg of onion
- a bag of garlic
-sugar
-3 packs of vache kiri melted cheese

Hope we will be able to order some fruits and vagatables in the village when the local helpers will go for their 11-day rotation, but it seems like not much agriculture is going on in Mbomo, the village that is at the entrance of the park, but more on this later. As Mumus would put it: what a great diet!