It is Friday over here, and I am looking forward to Sabbath. Over here the way of saying Bom dia (Bone-de-aw) this week I have spent in Maputo, the capital city. It is like most cities were you can get some niceties, such as Oreo’s and a cup of coffee, but it is also missing a lot of stuff that most cities might have. Right now I have been mostly following groups coming from the U.S. to build churches and listening to what their stories are. A lot of people have been asking if I have seen any wild animals since we have been here. The only one I have seen is a wild monkey and a lot of lizards.
This is the Water Tower I Went up To get some shoots, I had a guy with me carrying my tripod but he got scared half way up and had to go back down. They don't have any thing to keep you safe like the U.S.
I am quickly discovering it takes a long time to do any thing in Africa. Eli, the logistics man, and I went shopping for groceries the other day. I thought this would be a quick trip down to the corner market and back, but I found it a all day process. He was telling me this is how most days are. For entertainment down here we mostly surf the net or watch movies. Maputo has a wonderful Bootleg movie market for all your movie needs. Most of the movies are not even out on DVD in the U.S. One hi-light was getting pizza downtown the other night.
Me with Lots of kids
I am living in the Marnatha Office. It is a house they work out of. My roommate is a guy named Carl, he is a retired all around fixit kinda man. We found it great to find out he brought parmesan cheese with him from the U.S. making our night with the pasta.
This is a armed guard we paid to watch our bus, one of the women in the group asked if the gun had bullets in it. he said yes. The gun is a fully automatic AK47
One thing that has been hard getting used to is when I am in some villages they all stare because I am white and they don’t see many of us. I stick out even more due to the big Camera I carry. Sometimes people ask to get their pic taken, but other times they get relay mad. I wondered out on my own from the church yesterday and was about to take a pic when the people started yelling at me in Portuguese and walking toward me. I left fast to say the least.
A lot of you responded back and that was great. Keep letting me know what going on at home. Thanks to the power of the internet, it does not seem that far evan if it is 21 hours by air.
Me on top of the water tower