Hey! How is everyone?What is going on in the rest of the world?I watched about an hour of TV today, the first since I left the US, and CNN Asia news kept telling me that there was terror all over the world basically.Not fun. So today we woke up at 6:30 for a freezing cold 7am game drive.Last night we heard a lot of hippo commotion that I originally thought was just the typical argument over territory…turns out that a male and female lion were hunting in the ...

Elephants!!!!And Lions JLast night we woke up around 1:55 am to lots of snorting impala.The impala stay on the grounds at night usually not very far from our front door.They were snorting because a lioness was hunting them.Mom saw her, but I did not.I got to the window a few seconds too late. :(We woke up around 4:50 and went to breakfast in the dark at 5:15.The sky looked like it had been pulled closer.The stars were so bright and there were so many.The elephant...

Monkeys, spiders, and elephants oh my!!!And no, not spider monkeys.I am enjoying everything about Imbabala except the spiders.Most of you know that I hate spiders and if you didn't now you do.I swear these spiders fly.In the past 3 hours, it's currently 3 pm here and I wanted to write before I forgot everything that I wanted to talk about, I have had AT LEAST 10 spiders on me.Not around me…on me.Some of them crawl up my legs, but I think the majority of them fl...

Today was a long, but very fun and informative day.This morning we woke up early to catch our 9:45am flight to Zimbabwe.They still won't let me get American money so I don't know how I'm going to buy things in Victoria Falls.If you didn't know already, Zim has been independent since about 1980 and has had the same president for 20 years.He's got way too much power at this point so decided to print more money.Instead he caused inflation and now Zimbabwe has no cur...

Engaipe~Today was so sad!!I went into work this morning to say my last goodbyes to my students and the other teachers.Peter taught the first 3 periods as I circulated around helping students.I focused on Paulo during 1st and 2nd.He is an 8th grader who speaks very little English because he has recently moved from Angola.There are at least 5 other Angolans in the class that try to help him as much as possible, but he still just sits and draws shapes and never actu...