The following post is from my friend Pai (aka Lynne) who joined the Peace Corp and was sent to work in a town called Mmathethe.
I’m visiting the town of Kanye in Botswana today, so I’m taking this
opportunity to send you these pics of what I saw on my walk the other
night. It’s harvesting time for the maize, and unfortunately, people did
not do well because of the lack of rains this year, but I thought this
was really cool. These people are spending the next several days carving
off every little piece of maize to sell to the other villagers. I
tasted it last week at my host mom’s house, but it is not sweet like our
corn. In fact, it tastes so very bland. But the people in Botswana
enjoy it.
Yes, that is a big watermelon you see in there. The water melon is
more watery than we know, and filled with huge pits, but they eat it all
day long this time of year.
On Monday, I am going to harvest my first lettuce from my own garden. I think it looks big enough to eat!
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