This afternoon, I got to go out and about once again. After spending the past two weeks cooped up on the compound in meetings, it's been a welcome relief to have a bit of time to go out and about. Today, our Director wanted to see the sights of the town. She's been living elsewhere for the past several years, so hasn't really spent much time in this town, and figured she should see some of the sights, if she's going to be a good Director.
So a few of us jumped in the truck, and off we went, to see what we could see. I enjoyed it, because I got to see parts of town that I hadn't seen in several months. And around here, that's like a life-time! There were new paved roads where I didn't imagine there could be a paved road. Roads that were pretty decent relatively recently are terrible now because of the rain and heavy traffic. Everywhere there are new houses, shops and signs of development. So it was good to see how things are moving along. It also never ceases to amaze me how you can get lost around here because the landmarks are constantly changing! Part of our cruise today included driving back and forth trying to figure out which road/track actually would lead us out of the various residential areas that we toured.
I also got to see parts of the town that I have never been to before, which was really nice. The highlight of the whole trip, though, was seeing an ostrich running down the street! Yes, that's right, an ostrich.
Unfortunately, I didn't get my camera in time, but it was so crazy to see an ostrich running his little heart out through the residential area! We have no clue where it came from, nor where it was going. But they don't actually live in the bush around the town (though they are found in other parts of the country, I'm told), and we were in the middle of the city, so it's not like he was going to find some lunch one day in the forest and accidentally made a wrong turn into the town! Anyway, I just hope he finds a happy home. I wanted to bring him home to our compound so he could join the guinea fowl and her keets and the chickens and the ducks on the compound. But no one else in the LandCruzr at the time thought that was a very good idea :(
So a few of us jumped in the truck, and off we went, to see what we could see. I enjoyed it, because I got to see parts of town that I hadn't seen in several months. And around here, that's like a life-time! There were new paved roads where I didn't imagine there could be a paved road. Roads that were pretty decent relatively recently are terrible now because of the rain and heavy traffic. Everywhere there are new houses, shops and signs of development. So it was good to see how things are moving along. It also never ceases to amaze me how you can get lost around here because the landmarks are constantly changing! Part of our cruise today included driving back and forth trying to figure out which road/track actually would lead us out of the various residential areas that we toured.
I also got to see parts of the town that I have never been to before, which was really nice. The highlight of the whole trip, though, was seeing an ostrich running down the street! Yes, that's right, an ostrich.
Unfortunately, I didn't get my camera in time, but it was so crazy to see an ostrich running his little heart out through the residential area! We have no clue where it came from, nor where it was going. But they don't actually live in the bush around the town (though they are found in other parts of the country, I'm told), and we were in the middle of the city, so it's not like he was going to find some lunch one day in the forest and accidentally made a wrong turn into the town! Anyway, I just hope he finds a happy home. I wanted to bring him home to our compound so he could join the guinea fowl and her keets and the chickens and the ducks on the compound. But no one else in the LandCruzr at the time thought that was a very good idea :(
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