internet access at last

Hey all, what an adventure. Sorry that I couldn't get into my blog but we had trouble with power and water for starters. Some times the water would be off for hours at a time and as for the internet .... what can I say - I am in a very remote area. I couldn't ring out for 3 weeks but at least I could take phone calls from the family so that was good. We worked really hard for the first three weeks and put the roof on the school, built a 200m fence out of timber - which I painted with a really smelly creosote and deisel concoction. The kids here are just beautiful and of course I wanted to adopt them all but I wasn't allowed so instead I have sponsored 2 of them for a year. This covers all their living expenses, clothes, school books etc etc all for $500/yr. I was the first aid officer for the team and we had 4 of them go down with Malaria. I am now an expert on reading the symptoms and getting treatment early. I didn't get sick at all which was good.
Anyway - I will tell u all more when I get home. After the work we drove in a very small minibus up to Livingstone and saw the Victoria Falls ...... awesome. and then ...... I did this great gorge swing over the falls. We freefall for 60m in 3.5secs and it was soooooo scary but I loved it. I am now officially an extreme sportsperson :) Also went on an elephant ride - they are really prickly both in their hide and their demeanour but loved that too. Have to scoot - I have an airport to investigate b4 Kirsty picks me up in a few hours.

internet access at last

Dubai, United Arab Emirates