We woke up this morning quite Kate after a wonderful longline in. I have no idea how I'm going to be able to function on waking up with an alarm when we get back to the UK, I am so enjoying getting up when my body wants to! :) I had a couple of pieces of my leftover pizza from yesterday for breakfast while Dan and I played on the Internet and watched tv. Now know you are starting to see a pattern here with the tv and internet but I was using my time productively this morning and while looking at the St Andrews web page I found a job that I really want. It is with the careers centre and seems like I fit the criteria perfectly!! The application process it quite long, so I am going to start on that today.
The maid very kindly brought Dan and I each one and a half delicious toasted cheese and tomato sandwiches for our lunch. We left soon after lunch to go to see Karin at the office and find out what she wanted us to get for the pizza evening tonight, as they have pizza oven out on their porch. When we got there we found Kingsley but no Karin, she was feeling dizzy and had gone home, but we hadn't seen her! Oh well, never mind, it wasn't a wasted trip as we went to see one of mums old employees, Sesennye. She has done amazingly well for herself since I last saw her, she now is a manager at FNB Botswana, which was mums old job! It was lovely to see her and all the other ladies in the office, they remember mum and I really well and were really pleased to see me all grown up and meet my new husband :)
We were so close to Pick and Pay so we stopped in to see if we could buy some Parmesan cheese for mum, as it is astronomically expensive in Lusaka, about £10 for 250g! We bought four large blocks of gran padano as it was the cheapest, and we then set off for the craft centre, a place I used to go to frequently with my family. Unfortunately the centre is not as lively as it used to be, a lot of the shops have now moved to the big malls being built around Gaborone. They still have a fair few shops there though, and one sold a version of the doll bowl I loved in Harare, a bowl with clay African women coming out the top of, all holding hands around the bowl. Unfortunately as it was £200, and I know the likelihood of us being able to get it home without breaking is very slim, we didn't but it.
Karin was still resting in bed when we got home, and so Kingsley and Dan lit the fire to have a braai. We cooked pork chops and chicken, and I made a salad with the fresh ingredients from their garden and a French salad dressing from scratch. It was delicious if I do say so myself! I would love to have my own vegetable garden, the salad leaves and tomatoes that they grow in their garden are amazingly tasty and obviously very fresh. I spent some time inside while the boys were cooking, crafting my application to the University, and also getting generally miserable about the lack of jobs out there and how very much they expected of you for quite a low wage. To do a minimum wage job nowadays it seems you have to have had 300 years experience in the same position, a degree in brain surgery as well as being captain of the hockey team. It is quite ridiculous! After complaining for a bit about the job market we all settled down to enjoy the delicious braaied meal and fresh salad before watching a little bit of tv and then retiring to bed.
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