This morning I woke up at 4 but I didn’t know what time it
was so I got ready and decided to figure out what time it was because I wasn’t
seeing anybody else. When I found out it was four I obviously decided to go
back to sleep. While I was sleeping I had a dream that I didn’t wake up until
noon and nobody told me and I missed out on half the day. When I woke up I was
a little grumpy but I hadn’t missed anything.
After breakfast we went with Chimango to see the village
because everybody has only been hanging out in pretty much the same three
buildings since we got here. The kids came with us and we all got some good
pictures of SAFI and the kids. After that Emily talked about some of the things
we were possibly going to do while we are here including some research for Dr.
Steele with the solar dryer and helping the sociology majors with their
research. We are also helping Ester with her nutrition classes; we are
introducing and teaching a little lesson tomorrow about food safety. Ester is
pregnant so she will actually be leaving very soon and will be gone for three
months and Betha is going to take over for her while she is gone.
A funny thing about the nutrition classes that that Dr.
Johnston made us a little binder with lessons and survey forms for us to use
for the class. They are a simplified version of what we learned in
International Nutrition. The funny part is that as Whitney and I were reading
them, some of the sentences weren’t complete which made us laugh because Dr.
Johnston had lots of typos and mistakes on our handouts for class. Another
funny thing was that Whitney was looking at a picture of a boiled egg which had
instructions on how to boil and egg for the students. She said that she had
never had a boiled egg and wanted to try one. I gave her a look like she was
crazy because we had boiled eggs for breakfast. The picture she was looking at
was an egg cut in half. For some reason she thought the white of the egg was a
plate and the yoke was the boiled egg which looked a little like a soufflé. She
blames it on jet lag.
We also visited Ernest today who is an intern working with
the fish ponds here. They are set up in a pretty cool way. They have a house
for the ducks on the pond so their droppings go into the pond and made it
better for the fish and they also use water from the pond to water the crops
because it has lots of nutrients in it. Right now the lakes are kind of low
because there isn’t as much rain anymore but they have a pump so they can pump
water from a well into the ponds. He knows a lot about fish, I was very
impressed. He just graduated from University of Malawi which is also called Bunda College. Nichole is one of the Sociology majors that is
here with us and wanted some sugar cane so Ernest got all of us a stick. I got
a stick the size of a walking cane so I’ll be working on that for a while. He
showed how to peel it and eat it with our teeth so we all hacked away at it
while he showed us Ester’s garden. Sugar cane is pretty much a soft sweet wood
so lots of the fibers get stuck in your teeth and it can be a little bothersome
but it was fun to watch everybody try to eat their canes.
We were all hoping to see Dr. Steele tomorrow because his
flight was coming in today but he didn’t make it and there isn't a flight
tomorrow so we are going to have a wait a few more days before we get to see
him. I also found out when I was downloading my pictures that I brought the
wrong memory card with me. I have my old micro card with the adapter instead of
my nice new one that will let me take lots of pictures and nice videos. It’s
not the worst thing I could forget I guess I’ll just have to rough itJ.
This is us on our 14 hour flight from JFK to South Africa
In front of Out of Africa in South Africa
I have a stamp on my passport!
Some of the kids we ran into on our walk
Our hostel we're staying in
My room. I have no furniture besides my bed
My sugar cane walking stick. It'll take me all summer to go through it
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