Saturday, 12 January 2013

I'm melting


Well, it doesn’t seem like only a week ago I was facing the cold of Massachusetts as I sit here in the heat with birds chirping loudly outside. I am still adjusting back to life with out a packed fridge (mine currently contains cheese, apples and yogurt) and restauraunts just around the corner, but it’s nice. I’m back to seeing goats and cattle on a daily basis J The other day I say two cows pulling a big branch of a tree across our soccer sand area, with no people directly around them…

Everything is so green again around here too! And you can see more of the river along the road I ride to get to school. Sadly my bike already has a flat tire, which is just a nuisance, especially when it happens on a Friday, and the bike shop won’t be open until Monday, and I couldn’t stop afterschool because I wanted to go into town to get things for school and to eat, and to try to figure out if I can use my black berry which still is not working.
Today, I went to the celebration of the 25th jubilee for three local nuns, one being the matron in charge of the Bunya Health Center. It was an interesting day. The mass was very long, and mostly not in English, but the food and watching the singing and dancing was nice. There were no live chickens present as far as I could tell though!

From Wednesday 9 Jan


The journey back
So I will try to blog more this year than last year J.
After three days, I have made it to Bunya. We flew out of Boston at 6 am on Monday. Then out of New York at 10:30 to land in Johannesburg at 8:30am (1:30am east coast time). After a 6 hour layover and 2 hour flight, I landed in Windhoek around 4:30 in the afternoon to get a cab into the city. After a night in Windhoek, I travelled up to Rundu to get a taxi to take me back to Bunya, and finally I was back at my house! Already have a few bug bites ( I don’t know how) and am listening to the loud crickets… much different from the winter I left!