Here's a quick update, as there are bunch of pictures that I want to post. Firstly, imagine my surprise (and my mixed feelings) when I came home from work this week to find that my neighbour/nemesis the little black goat had produced some progeny on my verandah (pictured)! The baby goat was actually quite cute, and was clearly only a few hours old as it kept wobbling on its weak little legs, and trying to suckle the air. Good thing I wasn't home at the time, though! I've caught that goat climbing onto my bed three times now. I'm sure it would have happily settled there for the whole birth business, if I'd been busy in the kitchen with my door open!
Next up, here's a picture of the bush bath! You can't really tell from the picture, but this tub is outdoors, under some trees on a sand dune, looking out over the ocean. You also can't tell that it was pouring rain the day that this picture was taken. Its a cool system though, and worth the effort: you pump the tub full of water, build the fire underneath, wait forty minutes or so, then get into a very hot, cosy bathtub and watch the whales!
Now here's a picture that I'm very proud of: our community support worker, Nomzingisi, and her lovely 1 year-old daughter. I spend a lot of my time with Nomzingisi; we profile the households in the village together, and I've learned a lot from her. I just really like this picture, and I wanted to share it:
And finally, here's a picture of a truck that flipped in the village this weekend. The driver and passengers (from a neighbouring village) were absolutely drunk out of their skulls (drunk driving is a HUGE problem in South Africa), and amazingly, all of them got out from under this car unscathed! And then went to the shebeen (informal bar). They left the truck where it is, and now it partially blocks the road. So far one wheel has been stolen (pictured). If we're lucky, people will take the body to sell for scrap metal...
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