Author Archives: 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, […] 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 […] 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 […] I’ve always hated mushrooms. Anyone who knows me knows this. I know this is strange, considering I’m a vegetarian and that mushrooms are the meat of the veggie world, yadda yadda yadda. I’ve tried to like them, really I have. But…I…just…hate…them!I’m eating them as I write this blog. AND, I ate them for breakfast this […] I’m finding it staggeringly difficult to start exploring Zimbabwean culture. I mean, I’m learning a lot about certain aspects of the culture, primarily from the lenses of the white, upper-class farmers. But what about the “african” Zimbabweans? The black people? They make up the vast majority of the population on this farm, yet I have […] |
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