Paul and Eli Blog in Moz

Hi! It´s been another good week in Mozambique! Eli and I discovered the cashew trade here- they grow tons of cashews in the north and some in the central regions, so you can buy them pretty cheap here (like 4 dollars for a pretty large bag). The other day Eli and I saw a machamba, or farm, where they´re raising crocodiles for meat and skins. They have over 1200 crocodiles and we got to see them pretty close up- someone in our group was poking one with a stick until it bit the stick. We also saw a pretty large banana operation- it was impressive to see the women workers walking around with these huge clusters of bananas on their heads. My host mom tells me then can hold up to 50 liters of water, which is like 110 pounds, on their heads. Also, they sometimes carry huge packages like a big bundle of sticks 5 feet long or more (and really heavy looking) on their heads.
The other day one of our families cabrito´s (goats) got hit by a car. So they strung it up to a tree in our backyard and skinned it. I didn´t see but apparently Eli got a good look at it. So we had cabrito for lunch and dinner last night- hopefully they decided to save the rest for when we´re on our site visits next week. Speaking of site visits, we´ll be gone from Wed to Sunday in groups of 3 or so staying with volunteers. It should be really exciting, and a chance for us to just hang out and learn about how volunteers live here. Eli and I asked to be seperate, so we could try to be with english/biology teachers and see different sites. For some reason this really freaked out the peace corps, who asked us if we needed a marriage councelor or something. Its funny, because we had expected to be seperate during the entire training, and while we do have our language classes seperate because we´re at different levels- we´re together all the time.
Sarah M.- thanks for the advice on lesson planning. We start micro school, which is teaching to our peers in 2 weeks, and then model school, which is where we´ll have actual mozambican classes in 3 weeks. The Peace Corps actually buses in these kids, who are on summer break, for free classes and gives them food and school supplies, so it works out well for everyone.
By the way, our country code is 258, I think I had posted it incorrectly earlier. I dropped off some film today, but I won´t be able to pick it up for a while- I wish I could get pictures out sooner, you just have to see this place to understand what it´s like.
Eli has a bit to say, so here she is-

Hello everyone,
Everything is going well around here. Another week come and gone. I think all the trainees are really looking forward for the site visit, it's like a vacation basically :-) We're kinda running out of internet time, so I'll quickly write an interesting story that happened last night. Everyday we walk by this gas station that's kinda attached to a cafe/bar/restaurant, so the owner came us to us, and told us last week that they were gonna have live music and pizza on Friday night. So all of us Americans we really excited. Then, on Friday night about 30 of us show up asking for a pizza each. Let me tell you, i don't think they knew how to handle 30 pizzas, especially considering they weren't frozen, and their oven was a coal oven made for one pizza. It was pretty funny, Paul and I waited three hours for a small pizza!!! But, it was really good nevertheless. Hey, i gotta go, i have ten minutes before i get shut off.
I hope all of you are doing well. We still havent got any mail from anyone, so write us a real letter, aight? We will try to get some real letters out as well. Love and miss you all,
Eli