Saturday, 25 August 2012

Matsalo ame mo Botswana (Birthday in Botswana)

As much as I’m looking forward to celebrating my 18th back home with friends and family, I had an amazing birthday in Africa.

My day started crawling out of bed and being greeted with happy birthdays from everyone.  At flag break everyone sang Happy Birthday to me and I was showered with birthday cards.

 
Then it was back to work as usual.  Sarah and I spent the morning drilling holes through the 6” building blocks and then chiselling a hole big enough for the toilet waste pipes.  We then had to saw a piece of wood …… I was struggling so threw a paddy which led to scratching my leg with a saw, so I now have a set of 16 stripes on my leg, shame it wasn’t 18!

At lunch time I came back to site to find it decorated with birthday banners>  Again Happy Birthday was sung to me as my big birthday cake was presented.

 
Later on in the evening I was led to a surprise campfire which I had the pleasure of lighting.  Chris started off the campfire and we all enjoyed an evening full of singing and dancing.

 Fran