Hi everyone,
We thought we'd begin this first segment of our blog with brief clips of the Nhamacoa forest and some of its inhabitants, as well as showing you what it was like when we first came to live here.
It was rough living then, without a phone up to 2005 and with only a short wave radio and books to entertain us. Is living without a television for eighteen years a world record??
When people started invading the forest and setting fire to it to clear machambas (fields), life became wilder, especially when they waved their pangas (machetes) up in the air and threatened to cut us up into little pieces when O'D told them to control their fires.
It was all a big adventure for O'D and his Mozambican partner Caetano. As for me with drums sometimes drumming for days and nights and my new primitive lifestyle of cooking over a mud brick oven in a pole and grass cook hut and bathing with water from a hole we had to dig in the dry Nhamacoa river, i sometimes had the mad feeling that i had somehow and was living not in the 1990's but in the 1890's
Till Next Week,
Val
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