Well here are the promised pics from London....
this first one is when we were landing right on the outskirts of the city. I loved seeing the homes all squished up against each other, it reminded me of when we were in Germany last summer. It was so nice to see green London after so many months of either white or brown Provo!
Then we hopped on the tube and headed down the Picardilly Line to the walking tour of London and here are our pics!
Walking through Hyde Park...
Walking through Hyde Park...
This was so touristy, I just had to do it...
I am in love with the buildings in London, they all really were this beautiful!
Me in front of Westminster Abby.
Big Ben!
Me will all the essentials of London tourism (minus the London Bridge) behind me. What a beautiful city!
Waiting for the tube in Heathrow Aiport..
and got in just fine. We flew right down the middle of the continent, but it was completely dark the whole time so I didn't see much. After our 6 hour layover in the SA airport and some much needed rest we got on our 1 hour flight into Maputo. The mission van was there to pick us up and took us out to ADPP which is the non-profit we are working for. Everyone is really nice and happy to have us there, and we are all excied!
The girls in the mission van on our way to ADPP
All five of us girls are together in the same room, it is made to sleep 9 people, so its roomy for just us girls. The coumpound is well, its kinda like camping. The showers are 5 in one room, comunial....hmm.. and the toilets do not flush, you have to bring a bucket of water in with you to the bathroom and pour it down the toilet after. We also cannot leave our tolet paper in the bathroom, each of us has our own rolls that stay in our rooms with us.
After we figured all that out we got a tour of the property, which is huge! While we were walking through a field going to the house where we will have our clothes washed and our meals made for us the director turned around and asked if we had brought flashlights with us. All of us responded yes. She said "oh good because since its been hot this year we have lots of snakes in the fields." Then one girl asked "well, how big are they?" She replied "oh some are small, others are quite large, but all of them are poisonous so make sure to be careful, we don't want any more bites this year" any more? okay...welcome to Africa.
Me at the entrance to the domitories and one of the 5 different schools.
Today we got up after a very odd night of all of us walking up around 3 am thinking it was time to get up oops...jet lag! Then we went and met of our respective bosses, I will be teaching at the high school as an English teacher, yay! I am excited to
start on Friday, tomorrow is a federal holiday, we will be celebrating by going to the beach:)Coming into the middle of the city was interesting too. We came in this afternoon to buy our bus tickets for our trip to the safari and to go to Swaziland, and use the internet. We rode in the back of some andom guys truck, which was much better than riding the cramped vans that should seat 8 which relly have 30 people inside...haha reminds me of the kombi's in mexico city!
So far things are good, and time is up, so until next time!!
2 comments:
Adorei! Eu gostaria de estar lá com voçe! Agora estou em AZ mas vou voltar pra o México antes porque já recebe meu EAC. Stou voltando na segunda eu acho. Divirtase la no Moçambique e cuidado com as "esnakis". Um beijo, Tchau!
Hooray! You made it! I loved reading about your traveling adventures to Africa and loved looking at all your fun pictures! You definitely are becoming quite the world traveler! Watch out for the snakes...that def. does not sound fun at all.
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