Landscape

Well, my fried rice again turned out edible. Next time I might try to spruce it up with some chicken and bean sprouts (if I can find them). And probably a bit less soy sauce. But it actually turned out better than I was expecting. Nevertheless, yesterday I returned to familiar ground with apples and hard-boiled eggs. This weekend I'm going to try unrefrigerated boxed milk (wish me luck).

But before this turns into a cooking blog and my level of expertise on the subject becomes nil, I'll leave food updates for significant events. So far my posts have been fairly succinct, but today's might be a bit longer simply because I'm going to include a number of pictures. I thought you might be interested in seeing the actual place I'm in, and it's really quite beautiful. So I'll try to give you a big picture by using little pictures.

These first two are taken looking out from my porch:

These next two are taken on my way to work, looking South (right) from the road I walk on.

This is the other side of the road, but is taken on the way home because it's obscured by mist in the morning:

This is the park in which I spent Sunday morning (before church) reading:

This is the hill I climb up when I'm leaving town. It's hard to get a sense of the grade unless you look at the building across the street. However, I'm going to blame the difficulty of the climb on the altitude; we're over 1,000m above sea level here.

This is taken from the exact same spot, looking toward downtown. I give you, a small portion of Mbabane.

I hope now you have a little bit better picture of where I am. It's usually much more crowded, but most of these pictures were taken before 7am, when I'm one of the few people on the streets. These pictures don't capture the beauty very well, but I think you might be able to enlarge them by clicking, which might help.

-Ben

P.S. If a single nosebleed is something I should be concerned about, let me know. I remind you that the altitude here is over 1,000 meters, which is almost as high up as we are when we go to Brewer games, where we sit in the section referred to as the "nosebleed section."