Oi

So after 2 days of travel and 4 plane rides we arrived in Maputo, Mozambique. Upon getting off the plane we were hit with 30º heat. Our whole group was wearing jackets, and sweaters. I on the other hand mailed my only jacket back home 2 days before leaving Alberta, and had been wearing my sandles for the whole journy. Customes was pleasnly quick and easy. Once leaving the airport and heading out onto the street it kind of sunk in that we were in Africa. Our Mozambiqian supervisor met us and hearded us all into a chappa which was blairing hiphop. for anyone who hasn´t seen a chappa before( I haven´t ), it´s a van that has 24 +/- seats. Everyone that I have seen was about to explode or fall apart. Also they are the fastest and scariest machine I´ve ever been in. Some how 22 of us fit into this strange, funny, smelly vihicle and head to our hostle called "The Base" Maputo is a very loud, crazy, destroyed city. The road have huge holes in them. Some road are more holes with islands of pavement that drivers swirve to avoid.

After two days at The Base we somehow all fit into another chappa( 24 people, with 3 bags for each person ) and drive for 6 hours to Inhambane. For the whole drive there are people... Everywhere. Poor people who sell things on the side of the road. Most of them have no power and a small bamboo house. Once and a while we pull over to the side of the road and honk the horn a few times. Within seconds the Chappa is swarmed with people selling things. you just open your window, pay the money and get your Santal juice. There are many markets that are just vehicles parked in a heap, and houndres of people walking around knocking on windows.

Inhambane is much cleaner and friendlier than Maputo. Although not many people use garbage cans. Often there is jsut garbage everywhere. My "homestead" seems to be bigger than most and has a house for my host mom and dad / Dining room / TV room. There is a house for Simon and I / 3 host brothers. A cooking shelter, an outhouse, a shower shelter, and there are also two houses I think my family rents out. There are 2 mango trees in my yard, a Tangerine tree, lemon tree, coco nut tree, banana tree, and some other fruit I´ve never heard of.

There is sand everywhere! I swim in the Indian Ocean everyday, and eat a mango everyday.
The sun rises at 4:45... and 15 - 30 minutes before that every rooster( and there are lots of them ) crows. There are chickens and goats everywhere... roaming free. haha.

Tofo beach is beutiful and only 30 meticais ( about a dollar fifty ) return trip.

I am having troubel uploading photo´s but ill keep trying.

ps I know my spelling is horrrrraqbafble lol1