Dogs, Monkeys & A New House!

While I was in Morrumbala building the house for the orphans I bought a puppy! She belongs to both my housie and I, and we decided to call her ‘Bala’, after Morrumbala, but it also happens to mean, ‘bullet’!


Bala 2 months old

Its like having a little baby in house – the landmines and the puddles… *sigh* but we are getting the hang of it – trying to train her to be a good house dog. Not too sure what kind of dog she is… or how big she’s going to get!

She and Charlie the monkey get on really well – he escaped the other night and when I woke up to let Bala out the next morning I saw a monkey sitting on my kitchen wall!



He jumped down and Bala and he played for about an hour, chasing each other, tumbling, and tugging ears and tails! It was so cute.




Jessie and I have moved to a smaller house – so just the two of us live there now, and we have a bathroom INSIDE the house as well as a kitchen! And they finally hooked us up to the water too, we had been paying kids (with candy) to carry water for us… so now when the city has water I can take a real shower and walk back to my room in only a towel and not worry that half the base can see me! The only thing that needs to be fixed is the meter high gap between the roof and the wall in the kitchen/verandah area… It’s a security risk - I’ve hopped over it before, hopefully they will put bars and mosquito netting in soon!

Its so nice to live in a little house, they even planted a pretty little garden outside it! Sad thing is that we don't have a yard anymore, so Bala has to stay inside, else she runs around and eats the food scraps and fish bones out of the buckets the Mozambicans leave outside their houses!

Grrrouwf!!