Okay, let me continue as much.....

One small spot there were so many huge rocks.....

Around that area, there were as that many taverns too.... might be..... as we rushed passing by there every morning and evening..... 

I remembered at the meeting with Chef last week, he had been mentioned that this area is a “dry village”.  Which usually meant no alcohol allowed.  So this stony area is not within our village?

Yeah, it is still distances to our host homes yet.  These looked different from my neighboring cattle.

When I got off the van, usually the sun was at the roof tops of tree tops...

This is the little road to my host home.....   Our side is with the cement wall, at the left side.

 

Our two goats with two babies only came out at the late afternoons. 

When I got home, host mom or sister usually hurried me to take bath before the scheduled power off. 

If we are lucky, we will eat with electric lighting; after I took the horse feed tub bath.

It was only me calling the bath tub as “horse feeding tub”. 

It reminded me from my horseback riding days at the Passaton mountain area in WA.

Until these days, when I saw workers in uniform waited on the road side for picking up to work. 

I still think, it was by design for no job opportunities within large residential areas.

Even if one has gotten a job elsewhere, without owning a transportation, it meant none.

With no job to begin with, how can one to buy a car to drive to work.....

At my host home area, it seemed every property has a car or two parked.....

One section on our way to and from the resort, there were miles of construction site been seen....

Whether or not, those workers in uniform were to come here to work in the day time??? 

Once the water got pipped in, what this area will be coming to???

Yes, people need jobs....  In the name for developments....

The developments need huge capital to take up the challenges.... to have profits from.....  for?.....

Well, I think too much again..... stop it, right here....  Just to enjoy these sceneries..... 

Just noticed at the road side, there was already the wired fence miles along it.....

Closer to villages now..... these bunch of people playing succor every day here..... Looked like kids were in the trainings.....

The instructors brought the cookies for tea time from nearby store and I made, actually, my host sister boiled the hot water and I only made it with my tea bags from WA.

At lunch time I have only peanut butter and bread to offer, and I am truly have had enough of it for two weeks straight.  When the class mate Maggie was offering to cook spaghetti with veggies, I took it up with no second word need.

Her host home was only one block from mine.

Her host home has running water and drainage.....

Wao.... The indoor bathroom with toilet, sink and bath tub..... Flushes and drains!!!

For sure, it is my South African dream for living condition,

for next two years after Pre-Service Training!!!......

Today’s power off time was at noon.  After Maggie cut up all veggie needed, we went to garage for the gas stove sit up to cook our lunch.

Still adding garlic, etc......

In lesser then 20 minutes, the beautiful lunch was done cooked....

And so delicious....... This veggie lunch for sure be missed by me for a long, long time....

The following days we resumed to study language in the open areas in the resort again, in the early morning hours. We had hard time not to pay attentions to them monkeys running nearby....

A few deep thinkers that morning....

Were they the same ones, only running to places to “think”?

On the way home, I know where I can wait for the van to turn in order to take the scenery I liked.

Usually from here it goes down the hill, either you get it or you miss the view in between trees and turns.

This dammed up lake can be more than this of been appreciated.

The dam got lesser water to flow over this week.....

One can see it was not easy to have built this road here on the sandy ground....

Too soon to get to these rocky area, which meant another 1/3 way we will be home.

Today, I got better lighting on them rocks.

We turned the corner and kept on going.

The succor field..... we were really closed to host homes.

In quick, I saw these papaya trees for the first time......

I was off the van a block earlier with Maggie, thinking to walk home as for exercise.....

But the whole road were occupied with cattle coming home from the opposite way.....

And there were more in the coming.....

Were they all belong to one family or many???

This cow boy was not nice?!?! Or he saw I was scared of them and waited at a door front, so to rush his cattle into stampede to move forward quickly....  

Which also meant to stampede toward me.....

Look the dust been kicked up behind..... and the cow boy got dusted himself....  Calculated???

He was almost with the grinning face to look at me....  Yeah???.....

 

No, was not?!?!

Hmm.... the more were still coming......

After all past, I walk home..... These aloe plants must had been laughed at me of been scared of cattle passing.

Even these birds had seen the fun those cattle had at me???

I have better just post these now......

Cheng    9/13/2023