Safari with the Interns

Each time we drive to the southern part of the country we get to cross the eaquator. You can see that I am standing in both hemispheres.

We encountered many wild animals on our game drives, from wart hogs to elephants. We even saw the same male lion twice!

Lydia and I are ready for another game drive

When you go on game drives you have to go at dawn or dusk because that is when the animals start moving around. I am always amazed at the sight of the sunrises and sunsets in Africa.

Here is some of the crew with our elephant friend. We never had to worry about this one trampling on us :).

Home visit

A couple of weekends ago I went on a village overnight with Lydia, one of the summer interns. We went to the home of Jennipher, who is in her second year at Christ School. Here are a few pictures of our time their.

This is one of Jennipher's many cousins. He was very shy at first, but then finally warmed up to us.

One of Jennipher's cousins is cutting up a Jackfruit. It is a very sweet, leathery fruit. It tastes pretty good but the gruit itself does not smell very nice once it has been cut open.

Here is Lydia and Jennipher enjoying some Jackfruit.

While we were there we learned how to make Sombe. In this picture I am pounding the leaves.

Here is what it looks like once the leaves are all pounded. It doesn't look like it will be very appitizing, but let me tell you, it is. Sombe is one of my favorite local dishes.

On the Way to School

Each morning when we walk to school we never know what we might encounter. Today was a very exciting day of meeting various things on the road.

Running into a herd of cows is not an uncommon occurrence. These are not your typical black and white milking cows either. You can see that they are a pretty intimidating herd with their massive horns :).

I wish I had gotten a closer picture, but didn't. If you look really closely you can see a small structure in the middle of the road. This is what we call a duka or a small shop. They are small sturctures that are not perminantly settled in the ground. The owner of this one decided that they wanted theirs in a new location. We could tell by drag marks that they had come a long distance.

This is Bethany and Amy. The man behind is moving a couch frame to a new location.

What you are seeing on the back of this bike are many local brooms. The local broom is made with many try reeds tied together at the bottom.

Thank you for enjoying the walk to school with me :).