Random Photos

I'm really going to miss Leticia

Teacher's Day. Here I am with the school principal and his wife.

My friend eating shellfish and xima

Friends cooking Xima 

Here's Leticia posing

Dance, girl, dance!

My friend Sonia and her birthday cake!

I'm giving Sonia her birthday present

A care package full of my favorite healthy foods came. Yaaaay!

True happiness is receiving care packages of the things you miss the most from home. I love dipping cinnamon-coated apple slices in almond butter! 

Obrigada, Isaac M. pelo dinheiro para as bolas.   "Thank you. Isaac M. for the money for the basketballs".  My basketball team is thanking my dad for donating money to buy new basketballs the beginning of the year.

My friends and I singing songs with my ukulele

The basketball girls enjoying lunch

The birthday girl and me

Cute baby crumbs

Naira and Me

My Neighbors Posing

Birthday Party Fun!

Carrying mana, sister, Rochaela on my back

The kids love playing "Uno"!

Eating fruit in the back of my friend's truck.

A photo of Lizha James and me! She's one of the biggest celebrities in Mozambique! 

Hiking in Gurue

Children in the community with buckets

Basketball girls watching Love and Basketball on the projector

Someone was smart enough to break into the computer lab at my school and steal 8 computers without getting caught.  However, they weren't smart enough to realize that they can't try to sell the 8 computers on a street corner in town without someone realizing that those were the stolen machines from the secondary school.  In other words, we have our computers back.  Thank goodness for smart burglars :)

Angoche. One of many gorgeous beaches in Mozambique.

Lani had 3 kittens in October! Aren't they adorable?

Cute kids on the block.  Nathaniel and Rochaela.

Parabens, Rochaela! Happy birthday!

Rochela feeding her dad her birthday cake.

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Typical scene with my neighbor friends braiding my braids.

Typical scene. I'm in a chapa (a mini van which serves as public transportation) while men, women, and children run up to the windows to try to sell their fruit, vegetables, eggs, and chickens. 

See the big hole in my back yard? Well, that's where my room-mate and I throw away our trash.  And everyday, some of the children in the community go in the ditch to search for food and other things they may find valuable.  I've seen them eating stale bread that has been thrown away in the trash pit.  It's a very sad reality.

Two sisters in the bairro, neighborhood.

Here I am teaching 8th graders the "ABC" song.  The white lab coat-looking thing I'm wearing is called a bata and all the teachers have to wear it.  I don't like wearing it too much because it gets really hot here and it gets dirty easily.   It feels like it's an unnecessary layer at times.

Riding on a chapa

Here I am teaching modal verbs to agriculture and forest engineer students...

...and here they are!

Celebrating Easter in Namarroi

School in Namarroi

One of my favorite people in Mozambique

Tommy and I on the Mozambique Island

Regan and me

Doing some poses

A picture of some of the people in my PC cohort

PCVs and I from the Zambezia province. MoZAMbique!

The women in the Nampula province wear a mask.  Not only is it part of their culture, but the mask is supposedly good for the skin and prevents pimples.