Development Point: Sleeping With the Enemy April 8th 2005 Development Point: Sleeping With the Enemy
AAAHHHH CHHHUUUU! I wildly awoke myself from my deep slumber with a giant sneeze. I pondered for a second on why it was so dry in the air around me. It only took a second to shake off my sleepy haze to remember that it was the 1600 - 25kg bags of mealie meal that I was sharing this little house with. Mealie meal is the flour like ground up mai ... read more
Africa » Zambia » Livingstone The territory of Northern Rhodesia was administered by the South Africa Company from 1891 until it was taken over by the UK in 1923. During the 1920s and 1930s, advances in mining spurred development and immigration. The name was changed to Zambia up... ... read more
I'm now done working in Southern Africa for Engineers Without Borders, after being there for 3.5 years....well, done for the short term at least. It was an amazing experience and one that has deeply shaped the person I am now and who I will be in the future. You can read my final update post to learn more about my final years. I'm sorry I didn't continue posting for my last 2.5 years, sometimes when you are in a place for a long period of time, things that at first seemed interesting just become the everyday and you stop thinking about how they still might be interesting to people back home.
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