A Backwards Glance
Happy New Year kids it's been a while. So lets have a glance back at the memorable events of the past few months.
This month I have been on vacation. The entire thing so far and half of last month. I went to a sweet Christmas party in Serenje where I got Tupperware and whiskey packets in the gift exchange. I can't wait to use them! Then I went on a pretty fantastic trip to Cape Town and the surrounding areas of Johannesburg with my boyfriend Tony. We played with penguins, went to museums rode a scooter around the Cape and ate too much seafood. It was pretty wonderful . I'll try to get pictures up as soon as I can. Then I got to meet his gorgeous 2 1/2 year old daugther a picked up a few words in Afrikaans. It was lekka.
Then the second leg of my trip began. I picked up my brother and we jet-setted around Zambia in tiny planes. Some highlights include playing with lions, Victoria Falls, Malay meatballs, seeing too much wildlife (I love warthogs now) and a really sweet time in my village. I actually just dropped him at the airport today and after a zillion hours of flying he is due back to the cozy coasts of California where there are burritos on every corner and you don't change languages every few towns.
November was also eventful. I had a fish harvest that was by no means a success but what a HUGE improvement over what this group did the last time. last time they got 4kgs from 4 ponds (that is probably the worst harvest anyone has ever ever had) and this time they got 14kgs from 1 pond. So I'm proud of them.
That was also the month that I transported a turkey about 500km for thanksgiving. She was a scrawny well-behaved bird who I paid too much for. We bonded during our 4 trip and then Michelle cut her head off and we had it for dinner.
October was the copperbelt extravaganza. We
went to the Kashiba the sunken lake of Mpongwe! It was a lot of swimming and getting burned. We went to a Chimp orphanage in Chingola (where Jenn got pooed on and I got a nasty buffalo bean burn.) Hung out with Tony for the first time since April and had a really fun Halloween party during which I rode on top of watermelons in the back of a huge canter truck.
I guess that brings us completely up to date.
This month I have been on vacation. The entire thing so far and half of last month. I went to a sweet Christmas party in Serenje where I got Tupperware and whiskey packets in the gift exchange. I can't wait to use them! Then I went on a pretty fantastic trip to Cape Town and the surrounding areas of Johannesburg with my boyfriend Tony. We played with penguins, went to museums rode a scooter around the Cape and ate too much seafood. It was pretty wonderful . I'll try to get pictures up as soon as I can. Then I got to meet his gorgeous 2 1/2 year old daugther a picked up a few words in Afrikaans. It was lekka.Then the second leg of my trip began. I picked up my brother and we jet-setted around Zambia in tiny planes. Some highlights include playing with lions, Victoria Falls, Malay meatballs, seeing too much wildlife (I love warthogs now) and a really sweet time in my village. I actually just dropped him at the airport today and after a zillion hours of flying he is due back to the cozy coasts of California where there are burritos on every corner and you don't change languages every few towns.
November was also eventful. I had a fish harvest that was by no means a success but what a HUGE improvement over what this group did the last time. last time they got 4kgs from 4 ponds (that is probably the worst harvest anyone has ever ever had) and this time they got 14kgs from 1 pond. So I'm proud of them.
That was also the month that I transported a turkey about 500km for thanksgiving. She was a scrawny well-behaved bird who I paid too much for. We bonded during our 4 trip and then Michelle cut her head off and we had it for dinner.
October was the copperbelt extravaganza. We
went to the Kashiba the sunken lake of Mpongwe! It was a lot of swimming and getting burned. We went to a Chimp orphanage in Chingola (where Jenn got pooed on and I got a nasty buffalo bean burn.) Hung out with Tony for the first time since April and had a really fun Halloween party during which I rode on top of watermelons in the back of a huge canter truck.Also I'm doing training for the RAP 2008 group.
I guess that brings us completely up to date.
posted by Laura in Zed @ 12:43 PM
1 Comments:
At 2:46 AM,
Unknown said…
Hey Laura,
It's Emma....your long lost relative. Dude, talk about adventure of a lifetime! You look so cute in your pictures :) e-mail me sometime (if you get a chance to get online). Well, take care and when you get home... call me! We gotta hang out!
Emma K.
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