Livingstone revisited

This past weekend (Feb. 11-13) the entire staff of the School of Education participated in a strategic planning retreat at a hotel in Livingstone.  On Friday we traveled by bus for 6 hours and then worked on the plan for 4 hours.  Saturday we worked from 8:00 until 10:30 hours.  The Dean then sent us all off to play - traveling to visit a traditional village,

Traditional village work...

and village play...

Baobab tree - UN World Heritage

climbing the baobab tree to see the smoke from Victoria Falls miles away,






then to the falls itself. Go back and look at the Victoria Falls-Mosi-oa-tuna (Smoke that thunders) - pictures from last November and then look at the February ones.  I was told by one of the guides at the falls to come again in April when there would be no rocks whatsoever in sight.  Try to imagine the sound and feel the warm rain of the "Smoke".  Walking the same walks in November we were hot and dry.  This time I was warm and very very wet.

In November we took pictures from behind the trees on the left.

Incredible thundering noise.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Seen through warm rain.

The same place we started hiking across the lip of the falls in our November trip.

Sunday was another long ride on the bus but with more frequent stops to buy beef, then guinea fowl, then fish and finally bananas.

Purchasing fish

Guinea Fowl in carrying cage

Back on campus Monday morning, I saw so many lecturers I had not known before the weekend.  It is good to put faces together with names from name plates on offices, and to greet people with their names and ask how things are at their homes (part of the greeting ritual).

   -Mary