Victoria Falls and the Like

So finally got a few pictures of the school up there, though alas my camera has run out of batteries so no more. But yes, those are pictures regarding my school, working on the desks.
As to the rest, I just wanted to say, about Victoria falls. I had a great time!~ Anyway, me and jeremy hopped on the train down south 2 days later, and had a nice relaxing ride down to Zambia. It was my first train ride and I had an awesome time envisioning scenes from the orient express! Ha. Especially when we went in a tunnel and when we came out of the dark I half hoped for someone to have been mysteriously dead, or some jewels to have been stolen.
Anywho on the way we hooked up with a British man and a Canadian girl. They were great, and hilarious and had the best travel plans EVER. When we asked where they were headed they said "our eventual destination is Johannesburg (South Africa)". How perfect is that?!Really. Just pick a place and somehow, train/plane/automobile arrive.
So when we got off the train, since we were headed in the same direction we traveled together by bus...another exciting adventure in bribing and lying which I won't relate due to length...to Lusaka (the capital of Zambia). Since it was late those folks spent the night there but me and Jeremy decided to just finish the haul and continued on (another 7hr bus ride) to Livingstone-where Vic Falls is.
We slept in the next day and just walked around the town. Then the day after we took the free bus out to the falls. It was...BEAUTIFUL . The kind of place where pictures don't do it justice, though I do have some online. When Livingstone first arrived there he said "scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight". Really is an apt description. Anyhow we hiked around there all day, taking pictures of baboons, and falls, etc. Awesome.
Next day we did a full day thing called gorge swing/abseiling/rappeling/ziplining. It was 4 activities in one package, along with lunch included and free drinks (free beer too!. Only in Africa would you be offered a free beer before jumping off a cliff. God bless.) Those pictures also online on my facebook site...thats www.facebook.com, and then look for Sarah Springsteen. The gorge swing was scary as hell...it included a 54 meter free fall. But awesome. We had a great time.
Trip back was again a bit frantic...BUT we made the train (only JUST). I ended up taking the train all the way back to Dar es Salaam, and again I liked it. My butt (wowowo in slang swahili...pronounced woah woah woah...awesome right?! :) ) gets so freaking sore sitting all day so I just LOVE trains now. You can sleep. You can eat. You can walk around, no worries! Jeremy lives in Mbeya so he got off there so we even got to have one of those classic train moments where you wave goodbye, running backward in the train trying to still see them, while sticking your hand out the window! Ha. I love it.
Also on the way back on the train ran into another interesting character (traveling is chuck FULL of interesting folks!) Anyway he quit his job and is toolin around Africa, and has been for like 3 months now. Had a great conversation and learned lots about traveling in Egypt. He actually didn't take a cell phone with him on purpose. Wanted to be gone from all that. So he talks to people on email when he gets to a new place. Cool huh?
Anyway, life besides that is well. I feel more rested now. I am in Dar again though like 2 weeks later as the new islands representative of the Peer Support and Diversity network (PSDN). I'm happy, hanging out with other PCVs, enjoying the food and city life. Here all has transitioned into the rainy season so everything looks kind of damp and muddy at the moment and it rains alot. Fortunately I don't live in an area where bridges are flooded out and roads are impassable but I know other PCVs do. So kudos to them!
Anyhow, hope everyone is well. Miss you all, and can't wait to see you again!

Pictures of the School Project

Students sitting on the floor working on school work and studying.

Above: My headmaster, Mr. Sabui, with the head fundi, Mr. Ali (fundi means builder in Swahili)
Above left: Another fundi sawing support boards for the desks which are being built.
Left: Mr. Ali, and other fundi's, working out some extra sawing on the desks before they get sanded and varnished. At this stage they like to put an extra groove in the front of the desks, a place for students to place pencils.