On Top of the World

Well it's taken me six and a half hours (on foot, 4x4 then bus) to reach an Internet cafe from my new home in Yamba and it will take me the same to get back again so I'll keep this brief. All is going swimmingly and I'm absolutely loving it. It's hard to put in to words what it's like here so I'm copping out and going for a pictorial approach.

(1) My home (the building on the right) is marginally higher than Ben Nevis and the bus only gets most of the way there - the last 40 minutes is on foot (all uphill !!).













(2) The Shower














(3) My place of work (where I spent 5 hours yesterday mixing cement) is 15 minutes downhill and 15 minutes back up at the end of the day. I'm actually in danger of getting fit!!





Lots of stories for you but I'll relay them when I have a bit more time. For now I'll leave you with my favourite Swahili words so far. ....A roundabout translates as 'Keepie Leftie' - cute eh. And my favourite part of the translation book is the section headed Sex. There are just two phrases on the whole page. The first is Touch me here and the second is Don't bother I'll do it myself - that's it. Kind of makes you feel sorry for African women!!

Proper update in just over two weeks when I return to civilisation(ish)

Bye for now

Vic x