Nothing Compares: 2005.05

Africa is pretty cool. I have found that if you do not go into a place expection something, that what you end up with seems better, more genuine. Botswana is like that. It's probably not like anything you'd think Africa would be. The 'villiage' that Carmel lives in is, just like a small town out in the boonies at home. Anything you could really need or want can be found in Francistown, an hour away. And they seem to go into town about 1-2 times a week. I have one more week here with Carmel then I got to go down to Johannesburg to meet the team from church to go to Port Elizabeth for about 10 days.

Greetings From Botswana!

Yep, I couldn't say anything in the blog before, but I am in Franicstown, Botswana visiting my friend Carmel, who is here for 2 years doing HIV awareness. She didn't know that I was coming, so I couldn't write anything on here or she'd know. But she was still suprised, althought she had some suspisions in the last few days. Our flights were great and so were the bus rides to get here. It's nice to be able to stretch out my legs! They've been cramped up for 3 days now! But it's worth it. As soon as I have more time I'll write more about my adventures!

The exhibit is over now. :-( It is sad. We spent pretty much all day yesterday breaking down the exhibit, but it didnt take nearly as much time as they first thought. We had almost everything ready yesterday, but there wasn't a truck there to pick it up yet. But today everything got ready to go and they are just waiting for the last truck to get here tomorrow morning and then they are gone. Bye you guys! Now it's on to packing up my apt. I'll be glad to not see tape for awhile.

Ok, I look really, really scary in this photo, but remember I've not slept a lot, but it was the only photo I had of us. At least Amber looks nice!

Amber wanted to practice driving a stick shift so we took to the streets. My job was to direct her to streets that were as flat as possible, so that she didn't have to stop on a hill. :-)