Paul and Eli Blog in Moz

Hi everyone and happy 2006! We´ve been having a good time up here in Nacala- two other PCVs, Pete and Kara, came up for new years (it was a little confusing because I had the date wrong and thought that it was new years eve on the 30th....people were confused when I showed up a day early in Monapo). Anyways, we went to the Ilha of Moçambique for New Years, and had a good time. We did snorkeling on new years eve, which was neat, but we went at a bad time, just as the tide was starting to come in, so we had to work offly hard and swim constantly, or we would be swept in to shore. At night on New Years Eve we went to an all you can eat sea food buffet that was being put on by the largest hotel on the island. It had some pretty good seafood (grilled fish, grilled lula, soup, seafood shishkabob and grilled chicken- plus some really great ´pudim´[moçambican for flan and pronounced pudin´]). Also they had a bit of a dance show and a DJ.
We stayed at a pretty nice little place, really someone´s house with a guest house, and they shared some cake and pastries with us on New Years Eve. I felt really bad because then I took the room keys back with me to Nacala.... hopefully they can come get those sometime soon...
Also, tomorrow morning our emprigada (maid) starts working- her name is Angelina- and I´ll finally have clean clothes again. Eli really doesn´t approve of my plans to do absolutely no domestic work once she starts but... we´ll see what happens.
Next week 3 of our friends from the south are comming up to visit which should be exciting- we´ve had so many visitors recently and we expected to see nobody else for 2 years.


I´m trying to put a picture of Atticus here: