things are closing out really nicely. or, as nicely as they can be. i have everything i need, i think, and all seems fairly tidy. the sad news is that professor v's daughter died while i was in catandica. she was 42 and professor was understandably distraught. i was so sad for him. despite this, he still met with me, managed to make a few truly nice remarks about fernando torres' goal for liverpool on tuesday (he saw my picture of torres on my computer's wallpaper which launched us into a 2 day discussion of football when we were in chokwe!) and some other niceties. he's a really sweet man, and he was truly a pleasure to work with.
it's amazing: he's must be in his late 70s, he used to be vice-minister and minister of health in mozambique (he had some amazing stories of the 80s and early 90s when there was a terrible civil war here), yet he's still working hard to equip mozambique's countryside by training cohorts of tecnicos of surgery. i'm really glad i had a chance to make it all the way out here and meet some truly good people.
everything is packed and i'm ready to head back home tomorrow! here is my lunch today for you foodies: it's a spicy seafood soup and something i had for lunch a lot all over mozambique, though gussied up because this is the big city, it's called prego.
thanks for all your comments and keeping tabs with me here. the interweb is a great, great thing.
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