Randomness

 Here are a few picture of random things we've been doing here and random people we've met.

This is Krista and Senziwe at the Civic Center.  Krista meets with her almost everyday and after the lesson they talk and talk and laugh like little girls. 

 I am actually getting used to all the spiders here.  This is a wall spider.  (I don't think that is their official name. : )  

They are everywhere, but stay on the wall, ceiling or floor and do not get into my stuff so I don't kill them on sight like I usually do with spiders. : )  I still can not stand the daddy long legs. They are just so creepy. : P

This has been our classroom for the last five weeks.  Rachel is glad to have the white board gone and the living room looking livable now. 

One day Krista, Rachel, and I walked to the store for groceries and I was able to use my wonderful backpack to carry stuff back to the house.  It was fun.

Who says it doesn't get cold in Africa?

One day I made Roasted Tomato and Feta scones.  They were very yummy, with lots of cream and butter in them how could they not be?

This is Tobi at the Civic Center teaching Wada and Tshapang.  They are two teenage friends that come together for lessons.  They are usually there already waiting for Tobi when we drive up.  Tobi has not been able to meet with them for awhile.  He is hoping to contact them again this week.

Krista's birthday party on the 11th.  Rachel made a wonderful black forest cake with strawberry jam instead of cherry pie filling. It was delicious!

And, for the record, the Hammetts have us Humphreys totally beat as the world's worst  Happy Birthday singers. : )

Trust me, we have proof.

Here is Krista with all Mazula's kids in the back seat of the Prado.  Mazula is one of the main men at the mission here.

A picture taking on our return journey from Kasane.  We think we have bad potholes in Alaska! : )

The best things on a long road trips.

Naps and an Ipod.

Here is a picture of the church services here in Francistown on Sunday.

African Roadtrip Part 2

 Sunrise in Chobe. 

Sam had the brilliant idea to stay another day in Kasane and go to Chobe national park.  It was amazing!  The park is pretty primitive, no maps, no paved roads, very few signposts.

But that just made for less people and more animals so we were happy.  Most of the roads were very sandy, we had fun almost getting stuck.  We saw many different animals.  Kudu, elephant, many types of antelope, Cape buffalo, zebra, mongoose, monkeys, many different songbirds, cranes, storks, and eagles,warthogs, crocodiles, hippos and of course hundreds of impala. : )  We just barely missed seeing a lion kill, though we looked and looked we couldn't find them.  They must have gotten tired of being a "tourist attraction" and "got it to go".

 Oh, yeah and giraffe.  I knew I was forgetting someone.   We saw lots of giraffe.  I love these tall classy gentlemen. I always feel like they should be wearing bow ties. : )

 We mostly drove next to the Chobe river, which is where most of the animals congregate, but at one point we went down this long, sandy, bumpy road which lead to this tree.  Kinda creepy, huh?   From the  Botswana side of the Chobe you could see across to the Zim side.  You could see elephants in the water on the far bank and hippos and Cape buffalo and right down the bank from these wild animals would be a whole herd of cows. Domestic cows! With all the lions, leopards and crocodiles.  Yeah, I'm not sure how that works but it is Africa.

 This is an elephant skull. 

At one point along the river we saw a jackal stalking an impala.  I do not have a picture, but I think Sam does so we will try to share picture sometime so you can see more of what we saw.

 

 This man was fishing with this little canoe type boat in the Chobe which was obviously full of crocodiles, hippos and who knows what else. Very brave or very hungry.