Two highlights for me were:
1) Seeing the double rainbow at Victoria Falls. It was too wet to take our camera to this point, but here's the gist of what we saw (photo from flickr.com):
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Victoria Falls Trip Photos
Photos from our Victoria Falls trip. We started in South Africa, drove through Botswana to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, walked across the border into Zambia, and back again: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7sjcQPcHAlsTUpzUDE5U3M1OGc&usp=sharing
Two highlights for me were:
1) Seeing the double rainbow at Victoria Falls. It was too wet to take our camera to this point, but here's the gist of what we saw (photo from flickr.com):
2) Our day in Zambia, specifically going to the local market...thanks to our fantastic taxi drivers we were able to escape from tourist-land and enjoy the sights, smells, sounds (and stares) of the local market in Livingstone, Zambia.
Two highlights for me were:
1) Seeing the double rainbow at Victoria Falls. It was too wet to take our camera to this point, but here's the gist of what we saw (photo from flickr.com):
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Photos are here!
So I finally got around to getting some photos uploaded and organized. These are pictures from our first 4 weeks here in South Africa when I was actually blogging regularly: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7sjcQPcHAlsVGJaQ3Y3STdVR0k&usp=sharing (Apologies for the lack of captions...it wasn't immediately obvious to me how to do this in Google Drive and David just went to bed...)
Blogging has fallen to the wayside in part due to other things...my parents were here to visit for a week, followed by a road trip up to Victoria Falls. David and I both are involved in a number of service projects here that we want to make sure we finish as best we can before we leave. And it's easy to blog about the ignorant foreigner-in-a-new-culture stories and laugh at ourselves, but much harder to put words to the things we are learning, wrestling with, and the social injustices we see. One manifestation of this is that I have been trying to estimate what a living wage would be for someone living in Sweetwaters. From what I can tell, no (white) people from Hilton who employ (black) domestic workers from Sweetwaters have any idea what a living wage would be to pay their employees. And I wonder what a fair, living wage would be for the lady who works for us once each week. So I have been on a mission to find out and share the results. Anyways...things like this have taken the place of blogging. Hence the silence. But we are still here, thankful beyond words for this opportunity, and trying to make the most of it!
And my sister-in-law, Steph, is a real, legit, could-be-published writer...you should check out her three blog posts on our trip to Victoria Falls: http://bridginghope.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/flamingos-the-president-and-ak47s-botswana-and-joburg/
Blogging has fallen to the wayside in part due to other things...my parents were here to visit for a week, followed by a road trip up to Victoria Falls. David and I both are involved in a number of service projects here that we want to make sure we finish as best we can before we leave. And it's easy to blog about the ignorant foreigner-in-a-new-culture stories and laugh at ourselves, but much harder to put words to the things we are learning, wrestling with, and the social injustices we see. One manifestation of this is that I have been trying to estimate what a living wage would be for someone living in Sweetwaters. From what I can tell, no (white) people from Hilton who employ (black) domestic workers from Sweetwaters have any idea what a living wage would be to pay their employees. And I wonder what a fair, living wage would be for the lady who works for us once each week. So I have been on a mission to find out and share the results. Anyways...things like this have taken the place of blogging. Hence the silence. But we are still here, thankful beyond words for this opportunity, and trying to make the most of it!
And my sister-in-law, Steph, is a real, legit, could-be-published writer...you should check out her three blog posts on our trip to Victoria Falls: http://bridginghope.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/flamingos-the-president-and-ak47s-botswana-and-joburg/
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