Friday, March 17, 2006
Beira Mar
Hi! I'm writing from the lobby of Hotel Mocambique in Beira! We flew in to Beira yesterday, with the four other PC Nampula people. Unfortunately everyone else is already at the meeting (which is in another city), and we're leaving today at 6:30am to join them. We should hopefully get mail, I'll let everyone know, but it feels like christmas eve.
Last night we went and saw an American movie, in English, at the movie theater in Beira, which was a lot of fun. The place was empty but the screen was big, and it felt like being back home. The movie might have been Just Like Heaven, but they renamed it in Portuguese and I forget exactly what it was. Anyways, we all liked it, and I don't know if thats because it was good or if we would have liked any American movie. We were the only people laughing in the theater, and I don't know if thats a cultural thing, or if we're the only ones who got the jokes.
Eli and I want to buy some books on Amazon.com but since we have no idea what's come out lately, we'd appreciate some suggestions- so post or email please :-)
After our trip this weekend we should be moving to the new apartment. They' ve been doing a lot of work on it, putting up new counters in the kitchen, new flooring, and painting (white and blue, eli says it looks mediteranean, and it does remind me of greece). We' re both pretty excited, and our missionary friends are recommending an empregada to us, so we should have someone to help us soon. It's been really tough these last two weeks doing all of our own housework and teaching! Work here takes a lot longer, since there's no machines to help you... wash by hand, cooking on the fire makes makes a lot of dirty dishes, then washing with out running water, you have to sweep twice a day, and cooking can take hours... we're already sick of doing housework and can't wait to have someone to help us!
In other news, our cat got into another fight- we let him outside since he really likes to roam- and it hasn't been a problem until this incident, when a cat came up to our house and I guess you could say, started the fight. The cats fought on top of our neighbors roof, and it looked like our cat might be losing until, in the middle of rolling around, the other cat fell of the roof! It was like a 12 foot drop. We were really relieved because surely that meant the fight was over, but then our cat jumped down after him to continue the fight...
in the end we had to rescue our cat from the neighbors yard. In the middle of the fight some people and a bunch of police showed up at the door, and I thought they were going to shoot our cat (or something) but they only wanted to say they were working on our power. Why the police were there I still do not know.
Take Care, send us letters,
paul and eli
Last night we went and saw an American movie, in English, at the movie theater in Beira, which was a lot of fun. The place was empty but the screen was big, and it felt like being back home. The movie might have been Just Like Heaven, but they renamed it in Portuguese and I forget exactly what it was. Anyways, we all liked it, and I don't know if thats because it was good or if we would have liked any American movie. We were the only people laughing in the theater, and I don't know if thats a cultural thing, or if we're the only ones who got the jokes.
Eli and I want to buy some books on Amazon.com but since we have no idea what's come out lately, we'd appreciate some suggestions- so post or email please :-)
After our trip this weekend we should be moving to the new apartment. They' ve been doing a lot of work on it, putting up new counters in the kitchen, new flooring, and painting (white and blue, eli says it looks mediteranean, and it does remind me of greece). We' re both pretty excited, and our missionary friends are recommending an empregada to us, so we should have someone to help us soon. It's been really tough these last two weeks doing all of our own housework and teaching! Work here takes a lot longer, since there's no machines to help you... wash by hand, cooking on the fire makes makes a lot of dirty dishes, then washing with out running water, you have to sweep twice a day, and cooking can take hours... we're already sick of doing housework and can't wait to have someone to help us!
In other news, our cat got into another fight- we let him outside since he really likes to roam- and it hasn't been a problem until this incident, when a cat came up to our house and I guess you could say, started the fight. The cats fought on top of our neighbors roof, and it looked like our cat might be losing until, in the middle of rolling around, the other cat fell of the roof! It was like a 12 foot drop. We were really relieved because surely that meant the fight was over, but then our cat jumped down after him to continue the fight...
in the end we had to rescue our cat from the neighbors yard. In the middle of the fight some people and a bunch of police showed up at the door, and I thought they were going to shoot our cat (or something) but they only wanted to say they were working on our power. Why the police were there I still do not know.
Take Care, send us letters,
paul and eli
# posted by Paul and Eli @ 8:29 PM 
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Hey Paul! Michelle Cassidy was telling me about your blog and the face that you're in the peace corps and married and everything - wow! Sounds really great - I'll be interested to keep up on things through your blog. Hope all is well - and please continue to write!
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