Travel not only stirs the blood... It also gives strength to the spirit--- Florence Kahn

My time in Botswana is done. I have good memories of it all. It is with mixed emotions that I leave.. so much I could do and contribute but I am being called home...  literally. I have met so many people who have contributed to my education in life. I wonder at it all. I took some money (pula) out of the atm and it gave me back my balance in pula, we could get a nice plot in Kasane and safari everyday for it. Not J's thing but 4 month a year would be nice. Unfortunately everyone that visited would stay 3 weeks to make the 27 hours of travel worth while. Today at the morning prayer service they sang a special song for me ; "How great thou art"  ( no I am not kidding).  One never know the impact one has on another. I was extended a welcome and I have extended a welcome back. Tonight I am going out with Brenda to the Bull and Bush, no better way to celebrate, the issue is what are we celebrating?  Hopefully in some way  it be large or small, great or good, we have contributed to the world.

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.” – Howard Thurman

 This posting is just some pictures in  and around Gaborone, maybe some interesting sites...

Brenda, myself and Adele as she leaving to go home last week

This empty lot is where they teach people to drive there are everywhere

Just some shops in the African Mall

Some guys asking for 10 pula for beer ( hidden bottle under the table)

for my lutheran friends

sculptures on the way to work outside the museum

very friendly lion

You have to pretty old to remember Rhodesia

A "convee" holds 12 people and costs about 50 cents ( the bus system)

for my Anglican family

the gardens

the main entrance to the hospital where the clinic I work is

The short cut

The "wards" are joined by open air walk ways (hallways)

drying patient's laundry

a peaceful place

coming to Canada and needs a job as a nurse

the last morning at the clinic at the prayer service

 Unfortunately my batteries exhausted so a small video