After about a month at site, we were itchin’ for some city life so we met up with our fellow volunteers at the provincial capital, Tete, at the home of some Brazilian ex-pat friends. What a treat! We enjoyed many of the amenities that you often take for granted in developed countries: running water (eg showers and toilets), dairy products (milk, cheese, ice cream) and satellite TV. We were also able to connect to the internet, which is making this blog post possible, as well as the photo update (ps. Check out the picasa album, link on the right under our picture). Tete city is reputed to be the hottest place in Mozambique, so our midday shopping foray resulted in seriously soaked t-shirts, but luckily our friends have AC. We also got pizza and met some new young Mormon missionaries at the restaurant who are just opening the Tete region so we were able to share some of our local knowledge with them over some mozzarella veggie pizza. So we are happily heading back to our little home, toting a backpack full of olive oil, ketchup, soy sauce and olives, refreshed and ready to continue our work and our spartan Peace Corps existence.
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