Sites Out Our Window


Honestly, I think we have lived in some of the most interesting places here in Mozambique. What we see outside of our windows gives us quite a bit of entertainment. In Gondola we would see people fly by on their bicycles with their wife on the back, two children on the bars in front of their dad and one on the mothers back. We would witness houses burning in the distance, miles away, probably the result of some child who did not intend to be an arson. We would look out our window and see men passing by our window with goats and chickens, all on top of heavily loaded semi-trucks. We would see numerous street fights including a woman who must have been on drugs, because it took 5 people to drag her away from a fight with a random woman on the street with whom she thought had stolen her husband.

Maputo has been even crazier. I have already mentioned the things we see from our window in earlier blog posts. But occasionally we hear a crash or other weird sounds and run to the window to see what has happened. Tonight we were watching a movie and we hear a big crash that sounded like a horrible accident. We rushed to the window to see the action. No accident, but right below our apartment was a small building with a roof on its side. Apparently it fell of the back of the pickup which was carrying it. The roof was all banged up but the rest seemed undamaged.



I do not know what is more bizarre, the fact that they were carrying it on a pickup truck, the fact that it was not tied down or that a dozen or so drunk men were shouting orders at each other tying to lift the small shed up and move it off the road. I wonder if drunk driving was again the cause.