Home Sweet Home

I have moved into my house!  Well you know that, but I mean really moved in, as in I put all my stuff away and set my room up.  Here is a before and after of my room…for real this time!  I moved around my bed so I could have a better wall space for home sweet home. 

Before...boring!  A bed and a shelf with no hooks

My fun new African sheets with Africa and giraffes.  

The bed is also turned 90 degrees to have more functional space. 

I put hooks on my shelf which helps a ton with spacing.  I also strung up my hiking backpack.

I wouldn't be home without constellations.  

There's 3.  See if you can figure them out!*

The view when you first walk in. 

Home Sweet Home.  Miss you guys! 

Note: Grammum, one of the materials you gave me is what I used to make the photo boards! 

 Next project: the common room. 

The last few days have been good with plenty of home improvements and a trip into Gurue (the big city 15 km away).  We were invited into the city by a current health volunteer named Leekresha ‘Lee’.  She’s great and has tons of energy and spunk.  She’s been living in Gurue for 6 months now working at the hospital there.  We also meet three other health volunteers that were staying the night travelling through the area and a native Zibwabwean who has very good English.  We all had a lot of fun getting to know each other and I’m looking forward to the next two years. 

            The next day Hannah and I went into Gurue in search of necessary things for home: a hammer, nails, food, buckets, lights, etc. We were extremely successful on all accounts and found our way around the city no problem.  It’s a pretty easy city to figure out, which helps.  We also stumbled into a store which looked promising, and came face-to-face with Ian, an ex-Pat from South Africa who spent a good portion of his life living in Chicago and Phoenix.  We had a really great conversation and he told us all the good places for everything in town.  Apparently the ex-Pat and English speaking community in Gurue is much bigger than I originally thought which will be fun to have that little community in Gurue and then our own Mozambican community up here in Invinha. 

            On a side note I cannot wait to hike Mt. Namuli and walk through the tea fields in the outskirts of Gurue!  It has rained every day here so far which means lots of mud, but it also means that all the mountains surrounding our house constantly have waterfalls.  (sigh)

Okay this one was short and sweet! Beijinos e bracos

*Daniel, you don't count!