Photos and Videos

Chapa ride to hotel in Maputo

View from hotel room in Maputo

Hike to Cascatas (waterfalls), Namaacha

Cascatas minus falling water...lol...prior to the rainy season

Bem Vindo a Namaacha

Mozambican jumping into the water...crazy!

View of the Indian Ocean while having lunch in Maputo

Playing volleyball without a net with some kids

Presentation by a curandeiro (traditional healer)

Helping clean up a secondary school

Ngoma Time: Teaching Mozambicans how to play sumo (juice) pong (aka beer pong)

Ngoma Time: Mozambicans turned out to be worthy adversaries!

Ngoma Time: Teaching the Mozambicans to play flip cup...they won!

Creativity at its finest...cars made of wire and soda cans.

View of the Fronteira Bairro in Namaacha

View of Fronteira...the watering hole you see in the middle is where a lot of the families get their water.

Rain coming in over the Limpopo Mountains...Swaziland is in the distance as well.

View from the Science Hub, where we have our tech training sessions.

My new skirt I had made from a capulana (fabric that Mozambican women wear).

 One of my Mozambican dance party friends, Sam, and I out for a stroll!

Helping my mae make lunch...here I am preparing coconut!

Having fun with the coconut!

Eating some fish at Veronica's in Inharrime!

She's like the wind...riding in the back of a truck!

New friends in Inharrime! Super sweet people!

Cheesin'!

Enjoying some food down by the river!

Festa in Inharrime!

My first true coconut experience...delish!

View at the river in Inharrime!

Another view at the river!

These crazy chicks like to try and bathe with me...rude!

Admiring my hardwork!

Productive use of time...wheeeee!

Mae made me a cake for my trip...yum!

My other Mozambican dance friend, Castro!

Hello Mr. Scorpion!

This goat thinks it is a monkey...

Helping cook!

My mae making sure I am doing things right...

Bill Grogan's goat...I think there is about a 10:1 ratio of goats and chickens to people in Namaacha!

A nice view in Namaacha!

Another view...

And another...

Cara getting her machete on!

Such hard workers!

True Mozambicans!

A neat church!

Church!

Nothing like picking fruit from a tree and eating it...delish!

Mr. Duck!

Sugarcane! Delicious but hard on your teeth!

Making our compost pile for our garden!

Yay! We did it!

Hard at work on our garden!

Baseball...with a machete and fruit! So much fun! Don't try this at home!

My new little friend, Fernanda.

Charles, me, Anthony and Nanda.

My bathing companion one night.

My new friends at the orphanage!

I don't think I will ever get used to seeing these creepy things!

Sharing my love of oreos with my friends...and eating some delicious peanut butter cake!

My brother, Isivildo and his friend, Bernado!

My new chariot...hahaha! these little dudes were strong!

Beautiful!

Getting my paint on!

Getting our paint on!

Selfie!

Selfie #2 with monkies in the trees!

Peaceful morning...

My thumb is in Swaziland and the rest of me is in Mozambique...two places at once baby!!!

Awesome mural!

Some of the local kids in Namaacha!

Family photo!

One of my favorites, Mercia!

Finally volunteers!

At the Ambassador's house...super nice!

The Ambassador!

Hanging out in Maputo!

Playing soccer with some of the local kids....

View of the school grounds from across the street...

The view from the veranda of our temporary house...

Some mountains on the way to Liupo from Nampula...

Random pic taken on the way to Liupo from Nampula...

My school!!!

My favorite pic I have taken so far...the color of the water against the dark sky was amazing!

Our traveling companions on the way back to the mainland...

Our chariot awaits...

"That looks pretty ominous..."

Nick...our Christmas tree!

Christmas on the beach!

One of my favorite places in Angoche!

Perfect ending to a great day!

Amazing view from the rooftop!

View from our backyard...

The kids that like to hang out in front of our house...

Drawing together...

The view from our bungalow on New Year's...

Our vacation spot!

The rough life....

Architecture on Ilha is amazing!

The Streets of Ilha...

Living Room

Charlie the centipede

kitchen

My closet...Martha Stewart eat your heart out!

The Party Place

My bedroom

My rug!

Backyard

Lenny...my roommate!

Mocambican artwork!

Futbol...they love getting their picture taken...

Bemvindo ao Clube de Jordy!

Hard at work...drawing....

They love soccer!

I don't know why but I love this pic...

The first members of Jordy's Club!

Mamo, Miguel and Juma

Pedro, Nando, Demo

Juma, Pedro, Nando, Oslera and not sure who Juma is blocking...lol

Castre loves the plane I made him

Jose, Sam, Jackson and Gito

Fork em devils!

Selfie #1

Selfie #2

Selfie #3

A couple of the female members...

Going to try and bring this one back to the states...

this one too...

Craziness...

Soccer time at the club

English time with some high schoolers

Beautiful sky

My tree!

Arden's tree!

Students

Professors

Professors

Lenny

Students

Smile for the camera!

Hamade, Ericka, Abrumo and Abacar

Ericka, Hamade, Abacar

Love these kids...

English time....

Getting jiggy with it...

Hamade...

Woohoo!

Crazy kids...

Shhhhhh...we huntin for grasshoppers!

Tastes like chicken...

Try it you will like it...

Students helping clean my club room....

Club room...

Getting reading to go hunting for a rat...

Our chicken coop we had to leave behind at our old house :(

from the 4th robbery...that is my bedroom window

another angle

our new bathroom

our new living room

our new spare room

our new kitchen

my new bedroom

Bemvindo Senhora Administradora!

Some of my students

criancas!

Some more of my students

Hanging out with the kids

Our bosses son, Jaimito

Just chillin with the kids.

This was the highlight of my day...men doing some traditional dancing...a lot of booty shakin!

Sergio! Our old administrador's son who became somewhat like a little brother to us...Great Kid!

More traditional dancing!

Getting ready for some booty shakin!

One of my favorite beaches, Chocas Mar

Clube de Aprendizagem in Liupo (kids club)

Enjoying some coconuts on the beach.

Some of the kids from the club...the little boy in the blue would always grab my hand and walk me half way home. My last day in Liupo, after the club, he walked me all the way home (a mile walk). Very sweet little boy.

Catching a ride to start our hike up in the mountains of Gurue.

Tea fields and mountains of Gurue...this is pretty much the view of where I live now.

my new home

Enjoying the ride

This is Pavlov. We got him when he was 6 weeks old. He was a very sweet and smart dog. He ended up passing away after we moved sites.

This is the club and my high school students are teaching the kids. I do not have to really do anything. My students run all activities. The club is still running (on little material) even though I had to move away.

Enjoying a ride back to Invinha.