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If you are what you eat, does that make me an arthropod?
I ate fried Mopane (Mopani) worms for the first time... Well, they are not actually worms, they're caterpillars. So, I guess you can say that I'm officially an insectivore now. They tasted smoky and were very crunchy. Mopani worms are a local delicacy especially for the Shangaan people. Sometimes they are fried and other times they are boiled. People eat them here like potato chips or popcorn. Eventually, if these creatures are allowed to grow, they will become a beautiful Emperor mo...
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Peanuts, Sugar Beans, and Fried Mopane Worms for Sale
Peanuts, sugar beans, and fried Mopane (Mopani) worms for sale at the monthly market in the village. Mopane worms are not actually worms at all, they're caterpillars. Mopane worms are a local delicacy and are sometimes fried and other times boiled. People eat them here like potato chips or popcorn.
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Chicken Truck
Chicken truck on market day... Once a month our village has a pensioners' market. Everything from house-hold goods, fruits and vegetables, live chickens, clothes, and plastic buckets are sold at the market.
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Communication is Dead
"The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place." ~George Bernard Shaw A few weeks ago, Woody went to into our host mom's house to “top up” electricity on our meter box. The conversation that proceeded went a bit like the old vaudeville joke by Abbott and Costello “Who's on First?” Here is the conversation that occurred between Woody and our host mom: Host mom: Do you have film? “Ni vone kamareni” I saw it in the bedroom. Woody: “U lav...
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I think I know?!?
A student working at the school garden at Povua Primary School wanting to give a response to a question.
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Ah, the Good Life
This has been an amazing weekend. I had had a mildly stressful week. Everything just ganged up on me and tried to drag me down; the bicycle breaking repeatedly, the last time hopefully for good so I can have an excuse to get a new one, the desert getting even hotter than normal which is totally not fair, having guests and a new neighbor coming over to my house twice a day all week thereby destroying any semblance of privacy I used to pretend I had, and one of my fellow volunteers ET-in...
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Love my students!
Great pic of my students and me!
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Friends
Some of the girls.
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Students and friends
My new friends
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Students and friends
My students whom I adore
Third Goal
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“Sunset at the Railroad” by PCV Nicholas Baylor Hall. Namibia, 2011.
