Global Vagabond

     First and foremost, Merry Christmas!! Ive been out of touch this last month or so since doing Thanksgiving here in Zambia then heading home to celebrate and early Christmas stateside. Here are a few pictures to give a quick overview of how we throw down PC Zam style: The infamous pig Manly men (and Katie) We slow cooked him overnight, in a covered pit, and this was the result.  80 lbs of shredded juicy pork, potatoes, garlic, and butter. They are so proud!  Others choose to spend their Thanksgiving in more relaxing ways   The Northern Provence Crew - Theres no pro like NoPro The spread.  More food than Id care to admit Obviously we had a dessert table.  Christmas morning banana grams Cooking up lasagna  The fruit of our labors Merry Christmas! :)       Ive only been back in country for a week, but things have been rough.  I was already kinda feeling worn, unmotivated, and exhausted with a lot of my time and work

     Hey all! Its been a busy last couple months here.  Im sorry the updates arent as frequent as Id like but I try to make them worthwhile.   So since September weve been building staff housing for the clinic.  We need at least 2 houses with 3 bedrooms, a sitting room, and  a kitchen.  As of right now weve almost finished house 1, and weve started building the walls up for house 2. Overall the building process has gone slower than I would have liked, with the rains fast approaching, but slow progress is still good progress.  Besides the building of the houses Ive also gotten a bed, a large table, two desks, 5 chairs, and other smaller items donated to the clinic.        Its a really interesting process, since I have no background or experience in construction, Im little help when it comes to actually building.  But, I have been learning a lot.  The equipment used is pretty simple but quiet accurate considering everything is done by hand, with no modern technologies to help with

    Hey there! So its been a while, but things have been moving here! Our grant got approved, a grand total of 34,666 KR so here a quick run down of what weve been doing in these last 2 months.     The first thing we did was start painting.  Of course the medical facilities have requirements for colors and stuff (cream with black trim and red flooring) so we had to be really careful with what we bought and where we put it. In order to cut down on labor costs everyone in the village pitched in and did some painting with us.  Here we are putting on the undercoat Top coat, layer 1 Layer 2 Even Mojo helped out with painting! :)  Almost done Our pretty doors, by now they are varnished TADA! The inside is done! Took us a week and a half to do all the painting and flooring So one of the requirements for this grant is that the community has to contribute 25% of the "monetary funds".  I spun that and instead of giving money my community gave