5 January

5 January

Kalomo

0 Miles

Steph:

Erik got the same cold I had :( Boo. At least I was in Fawlty Towers for mine, instead of on the road. Poor thing. We decided to stay here for the day for him to rest. He slept most of the morning and then we sat around and watched movies all day. At one point we did emerge for a while to go back to town and explore and find some lunch. I really do like the villages here. People have things to do and are working. It's funny how I see that as a sign of a functioning and productive town. It's even funnier how shocked we are to see it. It also rained most of the day so we were lucky to have an hour or so to walk around.

We saw another white person. Ooooh. We think he was peace corps. He sounded american when I said hi. He didn't seem at all interested in talking to us though so we moved on. After lunch we retreated back into our little hole. We did come out to make dinner on the front porch with our little stove. There was a boy with his bicycle standing right in front of our gueat house selling fresh milk out of a big container. We bought a few cups for about $0.20. It was delicious. There were a few women standing around talking. They were very friendly even though they kept making fun of our little stove. Pshhh. One of them did ask us if we were sick. I don't know if she asked because we both looked horrible, because I'm still coughing up lungs or because we had been locked in our tiny little room all day. But yes, yes we are sick. Thank you.

The man who watches this place at night is a sweet, wrinkly, smiley beautiful old man. Seriously, all he does is smile, tells us to rest and says, "you are welcome here". I wish I had taken a picture of him. I need to stop being so shy about photographing strangers. Argh.

Hopefully, Erik will feel better tomorrow.