update

I'll just give a bit of an update on my whereabouts and whatsupabouts.
It's the heart of the rainy season and, well, it's quite wet here. The roads are awful and the village kind of shuts down a bit- everybody works in their fields and many of them move out there for a majority of the time. I've been teaching some ladies how to bake bread- its going over fairly well, but getting flour out there is a bit tough (and it is the key ingredient). So lots of reading and talking with people about things they want to do later in the year. I am raising chickens and have one rooster that I'm training to be a prize fighter. He's still young, but he's got the killer instinct and is eating a diet of maize, lizards and chameleons for protein. Hopefully the villagers haven't eaten him while I'm gone. I cycled up to the border of the congo last week and broke my bike frame which resulted in me getting a horrific sunburn (yes the one day of sun) and walking 25 km back to a friend's house. So now I'm trying to find a bike to use until I can get my new one from Lusaka. I'm looking forward to seeing the folks coming over easter. Well I'm off to eat a hot dog (not what you would consider a real hot dog but its close enough). And as a 300 hundred pound South African told me recently "meat is meat and a man's got to eat" - not exactly sure what he was referring to... but anyway, all is well!

Tasty Rat!