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Monthly Archives: September 2011

This week I am truly starting to adjust to, and find contentment, in life here. I suppose to first two weeks I was a bit shell-shocked at the lifestyle I’d be leading, the family I was working for, the pace, etc. I didn’t really go through the big highs and lows that are normal with […]

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Have you ever heard of a black mamba? I mean, besides the black lady that gets killed by Uma Thurman at the beginning of Kill Bill.Yeah. Thaaaat black mamba. The [arguably] deadliest snake in the world?Well, it’s plentiful on this farm.I first heard this fact from little Christoph on my first day on the farm, […]

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I’ve spoken a few times about my neighbor, Lance. I wanted to dedicate an entire blog entry to him because he has told me so many stories about life in Zimbabwe. It’s really been quite a truthful, shocking gaze into the life of a white Zimbabwean farmer. I held off writing until now because I […]

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While many people spend Sundays “finding themselves”, I have spent the last two getting massively lost.On the whole, I had a lovely weekend. Yesterday morning, I went into Harare and had a relatively productive (keyword: relatively) shopping spree. Last night I was invited over to the neighbors’ house for pizza and cards. They are a […]

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