The Bus Rank

The Gaborone bus rank is often a migraine-inducing experience with its competing screechy house music, the diesel/bathrooms-have-been-closed-for-too-long stench, piercing whistles, and pushy "Kooltime le metsi" salesmen. It is also a central part of any trip to the big city, and it is home to a few of my favorite things. Here, it was quite pleasant and empty on a Tuesday morning.

Book Club Party

The children in our library's literacy program have successfully finished their first goal of 2015: completing a paper chain stretching from floor to ceiling, representing all the books they have read as a group. One of those books was the Jungle Book. To celebrate their accomplishment, we reserved the library conference room, where community stakeholders, VIPs, and government officials hold their workshops (a space that is off limits to children). We filled it with beanbags, popped popcorn, and made our own movie theatre.