Africa

While organizing some photo folders, I came across some of the digital photos Todd and I took while we were in Beira, Mozambique, Africa. They are super low quality (like 1 megapixel) but I loved them anyway and wanted to share. It's been almost 5 and a half years since we went, and it seems like a dream that we actually lived there and went through the experiences we did. I don't normally narrate all of my photos, but I am going to with this post.
We lived in Beira, as seen with the red dot on the coast, middle of the country:

Our apartment for the first two weeks. We lived with 2 other boys that were there doing a different project.



Right across the road from this apartment was this beach. We spent almost every single evening here watching people and fishermen and chasing crabs.





These girls saw we had a camera and begged us to take thier picture. So cute.



I love the little boy peeking out of the boat.



Just some goats going to travel on top of a bus. It's not a big deal.



I loved seeing all the old bikes everywhere.



Like the brown hair? I didn't want to stick out like a sore thumb with my blonde hair, so I went brown. It didn't last very long. I think I was back to blonde within a couple of months. If that.



We visited a small, extremely poor village and met some wonderful people.



Getting (most likely fairly dirty) water from a small well. Think about this photo next time you turn on your faucet:





The last 2 weeks of our visit, we stayed in a city called Manga. Here Todd is playing soccer with the kids at the ASEM orphanage in Manga. Love those kids.



We lived next door to an awesome bakery. We practically lived off of these bread rolls and bottles of Coke. Well, Coke for me (it tasted just like Pepsi!) and orange Fanta for Todd. You can see a few rolls peeking out from under the cloth in the basket behind Joao.



Little kids would come in and pay for these huge bags full of rolls, then go out and sell them on the street to make a tiny bit of money.  These are some of the bakery workers with the bags of rolls.



I'm assuming this guy was a brick mason. He was in one of the bakery's ovens fixing it and just sweating to death.



We went to a sort of 'resort' that was up the coast from where we were living. It was a gorgeous spot.







These last two photos were taken from a bus ride we took.





We have many more photos that we took on film that are a lot of fun, but I just wanted to at least share these.