Day off: Around town.

Farayi and I headed into town today after a pretty sleepy and easy morning. Pray for John, he's sick with a stomach thing so he couldn't join us. We hitched a ride into the city to hook up with a guy Farayi knows who was going to lead us on foot to bulk buy Kapenta, an inch long fish that's pickled then dried. It's super high protein so they buy it for the feeding projects. The streets are much more colorful on foot, and theirs a lot more to see on street level when you're not driving through. The street vendors sell things from air-time for cell phones, to belts, hats, and wallets. It's not unlike New York city, except for the size of it- it has what looks like a third of the people, and it's less glamorous, and it's a lot safer cause there's such good gun control, and the buildings are fewer and farther between, and there's no street performers. Other than that, it's just like NY. Anyway, we hoofed it through the city till we caught up with our mobile Kapenta dealer, but we found out she couldn't get us the fish till Monday and we need it sooner. We picked up another ride back home, empty handed, but we've got another lead on a guy who can get it to us sooner, so no worries.
Today has been the first day without a schedule or agenda, which has been really nice. It's pretty quiet to, so I'm glad for the chance to get some typing done. Right now our biggest challenges is hooking up a new printer to a computer that doesn't have a CD ROM so we have to download the drives online. Plus we're getting wireless Internet in the office, so when that gets up and running and the laptops get set up for it, we'll be able to have connections on four computers instead of just one at a time. It'll be great... when we get all the kinks worked out. Right now there are workers on the porch of the office re-packaging some of the Kapenta we already have into 1kg bags from 50kg bags. Later this week we'll drive those around in the flatbed truck to the different feeding projects. After that, we'll have been pretty much all over Zimbabwe, only missing a few kilometers from the eastern border.