More Life in Beira

The other morning I heard lots of car horns honking and when I looked out the window this is what I saw driving along our street.

 A private school "the Cinderella Princess Schools" was having a parade to celebrate 12 years of education.  They will be adding grade 12 to the curriculum this January,  Each of the trucks represented a nation as it was also United Nations Week.

 The parade lasted for about 1 hour because each float was accompanied by many cars with signs and balloons and horns honking.

 They ended just across the street at a park and very nice covered area and had a party.  This group of young men were on the Mozambique truck and played drums.  It was very fancy drum work and sounded wonderful.

 This boy was very enterprising.  He was gathering all the balloons off the cars and trucks and then re-selling them along the street.  They sell everything and anything to make a living.

These two boy wanted to be a part of the party.....but could only look from a distance.  At the other end of the block were two more boys in another tree.

 We are assigned to work with the Inhamizua Branch.   Sunday was our first day there.  It was General Conference so I did not meet many or see what Primary was like (or non existent?)  This is one of the streets we drove down to get there.  It is about 40 minutes from us.  This is a WONDERFUL road!  Very unusual.

 All our streets are lined with these little roadside shops.  They sell everything, food, cloths, shoes, coal, sticks, rocks, sand, live chickens, tires, repair cars and bikes and furniture. etc....

This is looks like the street we turn down when we drive to the Manga 2 building and the Manga elders apartment.  It gets worse.  There are not even any pot holes yet.