Tiny Pieces of Africa

Mwani vude,

This will hopefully be my last day in Solwezi and I can finally be posted at my site, Kasengeji. I've been in the provincial capital for over a week due to some banking,cruiser, and other issues but all things are solved. This whole week has been busy with supply runs and of course drinking with Australians. As I write this Joe is getting all his stuff packed into the cruiser and heading out to the area dubbed as, "Zamvegas", yeah it's pretty sweet. Tomorrow is going to be rough. The last three of us are all posting in one cruiser with a trailer. We are all first gen sites, so it's going to be a cramped few hours driving into the bush. This is going to be the last post until I return for provincial meetings at Thanksgiving. Thanks for all the comments and such. I wish there were more tangible things to write about.

Here are two pictures I took. I wanted to put more up but it took almost an hour to upload these small ones. The picture with the 3 small boys was taken during my first site visit in Adams' catchment. You can see one of the ponds in the background. I think it's a pretty rad shot, let me know what you think. The other picture with the 3 girls were my host sisters in Chongwe. There names are Blessing, Mary, and Rachael. We were having a photo shoot one day and I got some pretty awesome shots. If someone sends me some blank cds I can burn all my pictures on them and send it back to the States, hint hint!

Okay, I gotta take down the chicken coup in the back yard. You'll all be in my thoughts out there. I'm sure there will be rough days and lonely nights. It's all in the name of development.

Keep safe and strong