The Ladies of the House
From the left we have, yours truly, Katryn from Germany, Fanzy from Germany, Emily from the U.S, Twila from Ontario, Corine from the Netherlands, Katie from the U.S, and Jennifer from the Netherlands. The seven lovely ladies I will be spending the next 3 months with.
This picture was taken at a restaurant in Gaborone. You exit the paved road and drive down one of the roughest dirt roads I have been on and turn a couple times before ending up at this gardens place. I cant remember what its called but it was beautiful. You ate outside under this huge old tree that spread way out and gave everyone shade as they ate. Also, the wine bottles on the table are actually full of fresh lemonade. When you order lemonade they bring you the whole bottle. Its so good I could have drank 5 bottles. Its like candy.
I have more pictures of my man cave and stuff but the internet is being particularly slow tonight so I will post them another night. Basically the cables in Botswana are not meant to handle the internet traffic that they recieve so your going
This picture was taken at a restaurant in Gaborone. You exit the paved road and drive down one of the roughest dirt roads I have been on and turn a couple times before ending up at this gardens place. I cant remember what its called but it was beautiful. You ate outside under this huge old tree that spread way out and gave everyone shade as they ate. Also, the wine bottles on the table are actually full of fresh lemonade. When you order lemonade they bring you the whole bottle. Its so good I could have drank 5 bottles. Its like candy.
I have more pictures of my man cave and stuff but the internet is being particularly slow tonight so I will post them another night. Basically the cables in Botswana are not meant to handle the internet traffic that they recieve so your going
This is the main house. My pad is behind this but its similar in looks. Tonight was my night to cook for everyone so I bought some charcoal and barbecued some sausage as well as made roasted garlic potatoes with garden salad. It all turned out better than I had thought it would.
So far I have been patching roofs, digging wholes, fixing cars, toilets, fences, lights, curtain bars, Foozeball table and the other day I even fixed the staff house vacuum. Lots of stuff to fix around this joint. I also spent a days worth of time trimming the trees around the staff house with a hand saw. I now have 3 huge piles of branches to burn in a month or two when they are dry enough to burn. We also removed all the weeds from the yard. Now it looks like every one else. No green, just dirt and trees. Nicely trimmed trees I might add. It also brought me to the realization that we have a lemon and a tangerine tree in our back yard. We also have a well producing lemon tree at the office. Looking forward to some good homemade lemonade before I return to the motherland.
So far I have been patching roofs, digging wholes, fixing cars, toilets, fences, lights, curtain bars, Foozeball table and the other day I even fixed the staff house vacuum. Lots of stuff to fix around this joint. I also spent a days worth of time trimming the trees around the staff house with a hand saw. I now have 3 huge piles of branches to burn in a month or two when they are dry enough to burn. We also removed all the weeds from the yard. Now it looks like every one else. No green, just dirt and trees. Nicely trimmed trees I might add. It also brought me to the realization that we have a lemon and a tangerine tree in our back yard. We also have a well producing lemon tree at the office. Looking forward to some good homemade lemonade before I return to the motherland.
This is my man shack. It is directly behind the main house. It is kind of nice being out here because at night I do get the noise of others in the house or in the early morning hours I do not get noise. However it seems that I am usually one of the last ones to go to bed at night and am usually up around the same time as everyone else. It is almost impossible to sleep in here as the sun comes up around 5:15am. So not only is the room bright in the morning but black out curtains would kill you because of lack of air movement and the heat the would build. The buildings start getting hot almost instantly when the sun comes out because there is really no insulated attic. So the sun heats up the metal roof and turns the buildings into incubators. The door to the bathroom was on the outside, whee the white paint it. Before my arrival someone moved it to the inside and bricked in the outside whole.
