Leave for Change in Botswana

Hard to believe really.

I’ve already settled into a bit of routine, which is helping with the time difference and jet lag. It hit me hard once we arrived in Shakawe and it’s thankfully starting to wear off.

There hasn’t been a lot happening in the last two days as I’ve been working. I cut out a bit early in the afternoon yesterday to head to the post office and downtown. I’ve been coming in at night as the workstations are in use most of the day so it is easier to work on them with no one in the office.

Due to the rains earlier in the week there is a bit of a heightened awareness around malaria. I took these pictures earlier this week, but this is how I’m sleeping:

Mosquito net

It’s not bad. It’s like a fort! I keep seeing this squat brown spider in my room (it’s about twice the size of a loonie) that I’d like to vacate (and snap a picture) but the little bugger is fast and can fit through very tight openings. At least the net keeps it out as well.

Anyway, I don’t think I’ve put this picture up (apologize if it a duplicate). This is the accommodations:

House in Shakawe

It’s quite nice. You can tell it has been used a lot by students though. Lola and I spent a little while last night cleaning.

That’s it for now. I won’t bore anyone with any of the technical stuff in this post as not much has changed on that front. Apparently, the day care is in need of some assistance with their wireless access point so I might head over there next week to look into it.

Here’s a picture I snapped last night coming home. This is directly across from the front of the house.

Horses in the water

The river the horses are standing in feeds directly into the Okavango Delta. We’re hopefully going to see a bit more of it this weekend (boat trip hopefully!).

Tsamaya sentle! (Lit. Go away nicely)