Gaborone, Botswana: Finally some business cards I found a flyer today and by coincidence, there was an advertisement for business cards. The price was very good – 50 pula (about $10) for 100. I then had to use a magnifying glass to read the small print which said “only for repeat orders”. I called anyway […]

Gaborone, Botswana: Brrrrrr – very cold!!!!I am trying to send some files today but it’s not working. The files are large and the internet is not cooperating. I made a template for some business cards. A set of cards were created but they are printed at the centre one at a time and with the […]

Gaborone, Botswana: Our anniversary – 36 yearsI’m sort of celebrating my 36th anniversary today. I say sort of because I’m in Botswana and my husband is in Canada. He reminded me that except for our first anniversary when we were poor students and he was working out of town and could not afford to come […]

Gaborone, Botswana: Eating mopane worms – not exactly yummyI don’t know how I forgot to mention this but last week I tried Mopane worms which everyone here eats. They sell the dried worms (caterpillars really) in the markets and you can eat them just like that as a sort of snack or re-hydrate them and […]

Gaborone, Botswana: Journaling, reading and gardeningThis was a very quiet day. I thought about all the things I could do including going to Mokulodi Game Reserve especially since all the catering students are working there this weekend at a function but I was loving the quiet time so I decided not to go anywhere. I […]

Gaborone, Botswana: Tending garden at Kathy’s What a relaxing day. I got up early – about 5:45am because Kathy and Geoff were leaving for Ghanzi (pronounced Hanzi) and it’s a 7 hour drive. I helped with whatever I could – packing, coffee, and taking things to the car. I fed the dogs. One is about […]

Gaborone, Botswana: Happy Birthday to Bena I am posting this a day early because I may not have internet access tomorrow and I wanted to say happy birthday to my sister. Hope you have a good day. I made a cake for your birthday and fed it to my students. I’m writing as if this […]

Gaborone, Botswana: do-everything-but-get-nothing-accomplished dayThis felt like a do-everything-but-get-nothing-accomplished day. I started out great with plans to do all kinds of things but the internet was working like molasses in winter so mostly I spent the day trying to get things done without actually getting anything done. To make matters worse, I tried making and receiving […]

Gaborone, Botswana: Finally the moveI was leaving home this morning and the neighbour across the street came out and told me that thieves went into his yard last night and tried to burn his car. He wanted to know if the guard at our house saw anything but he didn’t. The security here is so […]

Gaborone, Botswana: Frustrating evening I did some more work on the website today before my meeting at 12:30 with Priya and at 1pm with Dr. Thapelo. He is going to pay for the domain name registration and one year of hosting. We’re pretty excited about that. I gave Priya the my revisions and she’ll work […]