Quick hello and impressions of Mozambique
Hi all,
Sorry about the lack of new photos, but we returned from Mozambique at the end of last week into a malestrom of tests and tutorials. But there's a bit of a breather here this weekend so we'll sort and upload soon.
Just wanted to let all our faithful readers know that, despite a car breakdown and "roads" like you have never seen before, we have officially survived a nine-day trip into a real third-world country. The AXL triad took on a fourth for the trip: a really lovely and fun American girl named Katie who's here doing a really interesting women's rights project on an internship and is all set to go to Yale for law in the fall. A fellow 'foodie', she was my partner in crime in systematically hunting down all the new local beers and ordering calamari at every available opportunity. Before picking her up in good ol' Mtubatuba (the town names around here are always good for a laugh), the three of us canucks went to a huge game reserve (spelt Hluhluwe, pronounced, rather inexplicably, schluh-schloo'-way) and saw all sorts of crazy animals, including elephants and a leopard and rhinos and a whole pile of unbelievably cute giraffes. So may photos were taken (like that use of the passive voice, Laura?:) that my memory card was full by day three, but thankfully Allison was also on the job with her digital.
In Mozambique after a drive from hell (really, who needs the undercarriage and working shocks, anyway?), we all got to chill out at an awesome beach-front hostel where I think I put on shoes twice in four days. We met some really wicked people there of the young and hip world-traveller variety. For example, Hasse DeBoer, a super chill, interesting and educated dutchman who has possibly the awesomest pictures ever (hassedeboer.blogspot.com - check out the Guatemala album), and Michelle, the coolest American I've ever met (from California, of course) who gave us sweet travel tips and regailed us with HILLARIOUS impressions of the locals from various parts of southern Africa. I can only hope I'll be able to do anywhere near as good a job for you guys when we return.
I'm sure the other girls' Mozambique entry and photo descriptions will fill in more details, so I'm just sign off with a quick list of what I learned: Maputo = filthy, filthy dirty but fun and yummy; beaches are definitely the best place to study South African constitutional law; potholes are not your friend; always leave a solid two hours to cross an African border; there are different kinds of sea shells over here; I love calamari, the sun and dark beer. Oh wait, I already knew that last bit :).
Love,
Christina
Sorry about the lack of new photos, but we returned from Mozambique at the end of last week into a malestrom of tests and tutorials. But there's a bit of a breather here this weekend so we'll sort and upload soon.
Just wanted to let all our faithful readers know that, despite a car breakdown and "roads" like you have never seen before, we have officially survived a nine-day trip into a real third-world country. The AXL triad took on a fourth for the trip: a really lovely and fun American girl named Katie who's here doing a really interesting women's rights project on an internship and is all set to go to Yale for law in the fall. A fellow 'foodie', she was my partner in crime in systematically hunting down all the new local beers and ordering calamari at every available opportunity. Before picking her up in good ol' Mtubatuba (the town names around here are always good for a laugh), the three of us canucks went to a huge game reserve (spelt Hluhluwe, pronounced, rather inexplicably, schluh-schloo'-way) and saw all sorts of crazy animals, including elephants and a leopard and rhinos and a whole pile of unbelievably cute giraffes. So may photos were taken (like that use of the passive voice, Laura?:) that my memory card was full by day three, but thankfully Allison was also on the job with her digital.
In Mozambique after a drive from hell (really, who needs the undercarriage and working shocks, anyway?), we all got to chill out at an awesome beach-front hostel where I think I put on shoes twice in four days. We met some really wicked people there of the young and hip world-traveller variety. For example, Hasse DeBoer, a super chill, interesting and educated dutchman who has possibly the awesomest pictures ever (hassedeboer.blogspot.com - check out the Guatemala album), and Michelle, the coolest American I've ever met (from California, of course) who gave us sweet travel tips and regailed us with HILLARIOUS impressions of the locals from various parts of southern Africa. I can only hope I'll be able to do anywhere near as good a job for you guys when we return.
I'm sure the other girls' Mozambique entry and photo descriptions will fill in more details, so I'm just sign off with a quick list of what I learned: Maputo = filthy, filthy dirty but fun and yummy; beaches are definitely the best place to study South African constitutional law; potholes are not your friend; always leave a solid two hours to cross an African border; there are different kinds of sea shells over here; I love calamari, the sun and dark beer. Oh wait, I already knew that last bit :).
Love,
Christina
posted by AXL in Africa at
4:16 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home