Gas and tournaments

I guess that is the best way to describe what is
going on in the picture above ... gas and tournament.

The village is sponsoring a netball and football
(soccer) tournament which begins tomorrow
morning at 8 a.m.
In the background are a few of the girl netball
players cleaning and grooming their court.
The young men went out to the football field and
cut new boundaries and lines. Here the ground
is nothing but sand so it is necessary to refresh
the lines on a normal basis.

There will be 8 football and 6 netball teams
competing so it should be a big weekend here.
It also seems like a time for a reunion amongst
the people from the other villages.

Now the gas part. in the foreground of the pic
are people beginning to queue up to get some
drought relief sacks of dried beans. Each person
that registered got two bags at 5 kilos each or
11 lbs.
So with what looked like at least 500 kilos of
beans passed out, there should be a lot of gas
around this joint for the next few weeks.

In the past they gave out maize meal and that had
it's problems as some would use it to make a
local alcoholic brew called 'tombo'. So getting
the beans is a better option as far as I can see.

Other than that, it is a slow time of the year with
school out. The upcoming project to electrify the
government buildings seem to be on hold until
after new year. But I hope that the electricity is
in place by March so it will give me at least a month
or two to work with people on computer skills.

The cultural group kids performed for a few visiting
people yesterday and it went ok. Wasn't their
best but it seems, and what I've observed, is that
they are as good as the amount of people that
are watching.

With the holidays some people are coming back
to their village. It is my last Christmas here so
I am staying around and hanging out with the
peeps. Nothing spectacular other than spending
quality time with friends I've made over the years,
in another country and culture. Never ceases to
amaze me to be in places like this.

Hopefully I'll have some good reports concerning
the tourney by Monday.