Thought I'd give a photo perspective of life here at Sierra's home.
It's definitely not roughing it! Sierra and Khi live in a big house that is one of two in an approximately 1 acre compound that is relatively long and narrow - seems like about 150 ft wide. It faces the Indian Ocean as you can see below. I took this photo the first morning I woke up here. It is stunning.
This is the view from my deck. the deck on the right is the one off the master bedroom. Both face East and get the morning sun. Most days there is no wind in the morning but by 2 or 3, when the sun goes around the corner the wind comes up. Now it is cool in the afternoon but I expect it will be welcome when summer finally arrives.
The two photos above are of part of the living room and of the dining room which is a step above and in a sorta alcove between the front door and kitchen. Note: all the floors on this level are white tile. Perfect for dirty bare feet. Marsella has to wipe them down daily.
The two photos above are of the master bedroom on the left and my bedroom taken from the windows that look out over the ocean. Mosquito nets are essential. I didn't need them when I first arrived because it was still "winter" which is cool enough to significant reduce mosquitos but we are rapidly approaching hot weather and now they are out. I got bit around my eye the other night and swelled up like a toad looks on a good day.
This is looking out at the sea from the pool. Tanker traffic is busy and ever present. Some days as busy as it is in Boundary Pass and people say Maputo is a relatively small port. I'm told tankers go to India, Singapore and Australia. We are at about the same latitude as Perth.The photos below are of Khi's bedroom and play room (which is unusually clean). Marsella is a saint and cleans daily so rooms are clean at least til Khi gets home. We now have a cat named Liquorice that Khi says we should rename Minou. He will be a game changer. We have bats and cockroaches and possibly at rat (we are by the sea and there is garbage along the roadsides (yucky).
I was up last night cat sitting until I figured out he was hungry. He escaped from Khi's room (his litter box is in Khi's bathroom too) but happily was found in Sierra's sweater drawer where he had been sleeping. Nice and cozy.
The photo below shows some of the garden just off the deck facing the pool. Sierra, like her mother and grandmother loves to garden and on weekend we go to various plant stores to purchase bromeliads, ferns, elephant ears, lemon grass (good for repelling mosquitoes) and various other exotic plants we can only grow indoors.
And this photo below is the walk way in front of the house. Good for biking and walking to the park where there is ICE CREAM
In my view Sierra has landed in a lovely spot. I'm sure she thought long and hard about what country she wanted to live in and set up this health program. I know I have said this before but Mozambique folks are lovely and welcoming unless they work for government ....and even then they are unfailing polite. The only person I have encountered who has been rude is a Mozambique-Portuguese owner of an appliance store who sold me a dud waffle iron. I've been back 3 times and the machine still doesn't work. He yells at customers (very uncool by Mozambique standards). but has been relatively polite to me because I am an old white lady from North America. I need to go back and see if I can return it and get my money back. Have to wait because Alvaro my driver got in a car accident this weekend so no wheels. Marsella took Khi to school in a taxi as I write this.
Oh, I almost forgot, this past weekend we got 3 tortoises who Khi has named Grafie (the large female), Marvin (mid sized male) and Pool who is the little one and not seen in the photo below. In fact I haven't seen Pool in a day or two but I'm told s/he is hard to find. I like them. Low maintenance pets. They eat grass and lettuce leaves by times.
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