Hey all, sorry about the long time since the last post.  Just so much going on.  Let's see...

After village homestay, we went to Ruaha, where we observed 2 mother lions, a male, and 3 cubs playing around on rocks and making adorable growl-meows and suckling noises.  You never see something like that, and we observed for a full half hour. It was great.

The next morning, Nate Cronk and I woke up to a troop of about 35 baboons outside of our tent, playing in the river bed.  All generations were there, from a hairy old male to 4 black babies that looked like their faces were smushed.  A bull elephant also came within 5 yards of us that morning.  Good times.

Since then, we've been back on campus studying.   We had the first annual Livingstone-Stanley Games, and split the whole campus into two teams for the whole of Saturday.  It ended in a draw, but Frisbee was undisputably handed to the Livingstones at a score of 9-1 (I was a Livingstone).  Soccer and the uphill race went to the Stanleys, and everything else involved less running, so myeh.  Although watching Mama Barb chug a soda and Sari Ann spew out 12 marshmallows during Fuzzy Bunny was pretty darn great.

Tomorrow we leave for our village homestay with the Safwa in Mbeya region. We'll be in the most traditional setting for the next 9 nights, eating ugali and sardines every day probably.  Can't wait.  There'll probably be  ahuge village soccer game as well.

Anyways, I just sent a letter off to Houghton (Lois, this one's for you!), so that should tell a fair few stories.  Really it's been a fairly slow week of studies since then.  I'm going to go visit Magnus the woodcarver now.

Mom, I'll try to give you a phone call sometime soon.

Love y'all.  Sorry this is pithy.  Ain't enough time in a day yo.

-JZ