Tonight is my last in Zimbabwe. Yes, its come to an end at last, and looking back it feels like a lot more than four weeks. I suppose no matter how long I stay away, there are too many memories here for me not to feel at home. Every street I drive down has a little image or conversation attactched to it, so its easy for me to feel like I've been ( Read more... )

After being rather grumpy this weekend, I cheered up a bit today. I think it might have been lack of sleep, which always makes me into a nasty person. My sister Ruva arrived yesterday at 6 in the morning, so I got up to meet her. Now my whole weird family is here for the first time ever. Of course we aren't all in the same place, unfortunately the ( Read more... )

Well I'm back at last, at least back from my little side trip off into the wild. So much stuff happened, and I don't know if I can fit it all in. I'll try anyway ( Read more... )

One of the few things that I didn't worry about before coming here was that it might be too cold, and yet here I am two weeks in and its actually getting a bit chilly. Luckily its not a dreary, British kind of cold, but more a sunny, but windy chill. Still, I must say I am looking forward to a bit more heat when I get back to Britian. Now theres ( Read more... )

Here I am still in Zimbabwe, and for a country sliding into disaster its surprisingly boring. Thats the weird thing about it here, everyone gets on with their lives, no matter how ludicrously bad things get. The country seems to be dying slowly rather than exploding like pretty much every other African country does at one time or another. The fact ( Read more... )

Well, things have all calmed down a bit since my rather frantic birthday celebrations, which I'm glad about really. Things moved so quickly on the weekend, and I seemed to be constantly in the company a revolving cast of cousins, with various aunts, uncles and assorted others lurking around in the background. Well not really lurking, my family ( Read more... )

I had my second Birthday of the year yesterday. Yes, lucky me I get two, and this one was really spectacular. 70 people, all of which were at least tenuously related to me, turned up, making it a massive noisy party. Since most people in the family are devout it was mostly good clean, christian fun, although there were a couple of people who seemed ( Read more... )

hello everyone. Well its been a long time since my last entry, but I have a good reason for starting up again. For anyone who doesnt know, I'm in Zimbabwe now ( since yesterday) and will be for the next month. So you'll all be treated to thrilling updates on all my African escapades, which basically means me rambling on about shit and complaining ( Read more... )

My life's a bit of a mess at the moment. I haven't done any work in a week and can't really be bothered to do anything constructive. 4 Essays in a row do that to you. Its barbaric really. I'll really have to pull myself together next week if i don't want to look stupid in my seminar on Marx, being as I have read virtually nothing for that module in ( Read more... )

Well, first update in ages. Since my internet is working at last, I thought it was time to get back into livejournal again. Considering I spent so much time on the computer I might as well ( Read more... )