Back from Africa

After a long bus ride, a flight to Thailand, a wait in the Bangkok airport for seven hours, another plane trip for over twelve hours, through customs and the NZ biological security check in Auckland airport, I arrived back in NZ. After I have written this post I'm going to read over my blog for the last three months, and I'm sure its going to be interesting to look back on all that I noted.
Its lovely to get back to the New Zealand summer, with its cool winds, occasional showers, cicadas, swimming at pools, having dinner on the veranda and even mum's many chickens clucking around the yard. The afternoons are sleepy, and at last I'm having my summer holiday sleep-ins. Mind you, although Africa was a little full on in some ways, it was definitely more relaxed on the whole, and as PC says in Kituo, "it's back to the rat race".

Anyways, I will be showing a sideshow some time soon, once I have my films developed, and have organized them a little. But here are some pictures I thought I might put up.




This is Patrick, a Congolese pastor married to an Australian lady who live together as newly-weds on the Joshua base, and I having a good go at mixing Ugali. Hard work actually!















We have a shredded tire on my second trip to Magugu to finish off the sponsorship photos (as you can see if you zoom in a little on the tire), and it was a bit of a mission to work out how to set the jack up as it was too small to lift the car high enough to replace the kaput wheel. A new experience in the Pit Stop for me :)




This is the whole en-gedi team while I was there, click on the image to get a better view.



A few friends I made.








Sunset on the beach of Zanzibar, a beautiful place. I'll put more photos up later of this exotic location











Yep, I held a snake at the Mezerani snake park!

















These are some dear little girls from the Joshua pre-school with their mothers during 'music hour'.