Mexican in Mozambique

Pictures from an Incredible birthday/ birthday weekend thanks to my AWESOME site mates: Steven had this made for me :)))) Manica for the day Jay! alllll minneeee! ;) my pals :) eating GAZELLE! yuuuuum ^_____^ raaawwwrrr! April 5: Small party @ mihna casa w/ the central crew: friendsss Another birthday surprise: Steven made Margaritas!!! Bartending :)) Joane is a local artist and our good friend My friend Joane (pictured up top) MADE me this awesome gift!! April 7th, Dia da Mulher (aka. my favorite holiday in MOzzzz) CAC!

written monday march 31 ------ It seems that every time I sit down to blog I always have some sort of calamity going down in my house, ahaha. What is it today, you say? Well, my bathroom sink has been clogged for days and I've been asking my landlady (the Dona) to call the plumber. Yesterday,  the sink base started leaking water and inundar' ing (flooding) my bathroom with dirty water. I told my Dona, and she told me the plumber would be here today at 16 (4pm). It's 10 to 6pm right now and this fool is nowhere to be seen. Totally expected, but completely infuriating at the same time. Oooh Mozambique. With 16 weeks to go, I've decided to start a list of 16 things I am looking forward to in the states. You can jump towards the end of this entry to check out my first 5. Anyway, onto the novidades in vida do wendel - Work has been pretty crazy lately and in fact, it was kicking my ass this last week and half. How interesting is it that I had nothing to do fo...

On Friday night when I stepped out for a night out to celebrate our friend Maarten's birthday I thought out loud, "Ooooh, it's chilly out!" I checked the temperature. It was 72 degrees; How long have I been here? 22 months, almost? Well, then that sounds about right. 72 degrees would make me a bit cold. In other weather related news, the rains have eased and today is the first Sunday in which it hasn't rained in a while. Graças a deus ! My veranda hasn't flooded over completely and I haven't had those pesky leaks over my bed for a few days/wks now... all good news! Moving on, on some home improvement news: My house, but more specifically my veranda, got a huge upgrade a few weeks ago when I recruited meu amigo /site mate, Steven to help me  completely re-do it. I asked Steven to help me with this home improvement project, but in reality, he did most of the work! It turned out great though and much better than anything I had imagined! Check it out: ...