Dyeratu and Back

The start of week five already! Yes, I know that it started yesterday, but I mean of work. Lol. My morning work was to dig up the onions from this small garden. The ground here is like concrete, so you have to use a garden fork - not a hand shovel. The work was easy and didn't take too long. Around an hour.

Malawian dirt= Canadian concrete.

Here are all the onions that we collected. It might not look like much, but it is about thirty to forty onions. 

This is an anthill. I couldn't take a photo of it straight on, because the photo would be too dark, so I had to do a side shot. In a few days I will upload a better photo of a different anthill. It is about eight feet tall. These are the tallest sized ones I have seen around here.

I finished my work and headed back to the house. Here are two photos of the place. I thought you guys would like a better photo than the one that was in the beginning. This gives you another angle. 

Back at the house, Gifti popped in to see if I wanted to bike to Dyeratu with him. After a minute, I decided I do it. It was ten kilometers there and ten kilometers back. Normally I would have agreed as I bike and run everywhere in Canada, but it was over forty degrees out there. So that made me think to not do it. But I was just like, "Well whatever. I'll do it. It only takes about thirty minutes to get to Dyeratu by bike, and that's not that long in the sun." 

So I jumped on my bike and started pedaling. For about a kilometer of the way there I did no handed biking just for fun. Everyone was pointing and smiling, so ya, it was fun. The heat built up really fast, and I had to pull over on the road one time to drink a bottle of water. I already had headache. 

Sitting there, I looked up and saw the sign of the village. That was really quite nice. Lol. We first went to the gas station to get gas, but they didn't let us have any, because they didn't want us to put the gasoline inside a two liter drinking bottle. Then we went around the market and looked at everything there. I didn't have much money left, so I couldn't really buy anything of worth. In Malawi money goes fast. And I need to save my money, because I will be going to Zomba, a city that is a few hours away, this weekend with the Emery's.

So we spent no more than thirty minutes there, and then we went and purchased ten dozen eggs. 

We loaded them onto Gifti's bike and started back for Hope Village. This isn't a huge load. It is very small compared to what I have seen Malawians carrying around on their bikes.

No handed for alot of the ten kilometers back! WHOO!! Yes, I am able to take photos while riding a bike. So how's taking a straight photo while riding no-handed? Lol.

Cool Shot

 I wasn't meaning to take this photo, but it turned out well, so I uploaded it.

After taking that photo of Gifti and the eggs, I wanted to catch up and get to the front of the pack to take a selfie with all the guys in it. The distance was about a kilometer to the front. Gifti was now about two hundred feet ahead of me. I biked really fast and after a few minutes, I was able to pass him. I had to bike to the front. The guys were over a half kilometer ahead. I biked really hard, but it was super hard to keep going faster than what they were going. 

After about fifteen minutes, I was able to get ahead of then. How about this shot. It took a bit more effort to manage to get a straight selfie of me and the guys in there while having to pay attention to the road. Oh and having to use one hand to drive. Lol. Bragging.

I got home about ten minutes after that photo was taken. So it took me a total of an hour and a half to go to Dyeratu and get back. At the house, I was so out of breath. I drank tons of water, sat down for a long while, and then took a cold shower.

Thus ends the interesting parts of the day.