Paul and Eli Blog in Moz

We have a small crisis. Our empregada, Rosa, traveled to another town and hasn`t been here in a while. So Eli and I have been living on a diet of hard boiled eggs and bread. It`s not that we couldn`t cook anything else- it`s that all of our dishes are dirty and Rosa isn`t here to clean them. If she doesn`t come back soon, we may be in for a rough ride.

Actually, it`s not that bad (really, her absence has made us try frozen hotdogs, which you can eat together with bread and eggs.)

Another impeding crisis: (well, not really, but an impending event) we will be changing sites. Peace Corps is going to close our site and we will move to another town this December. Nacala is a pretty city and we like the school, but due to the size there`s too much crime for it to be a good site. Eli and I have been robbed twice so far (within the last 6-7 weeks), so both Peace Corps and ourselves think a move is the best idea. The school and (at least some of) our students are sad that we`re leaving, and we`re sad too, but we`re also looking forward to moving into a smaller place where we can be more integrated with the community. (Nacala, pop. 200,000+).

We are not sure where we`ll move to; we will probably stay somewhere in the northern provinces. In mid-October we will go down to Maputo to help out with the training of the new volunteers, then back to the US briefly until December. In the middle of that we`re thinking of treating ourselves to a safari :-)