It's been COLD this week! We had several days when the morning temperatures were near 50 degrees. Our house, like all the others in the area, has only a fireplace for heating, and these concrete floors and walls stay cold. I've been wearing long underwear and sweaters to stay warm during the day, and David has been building fires in the fireplace on cold evenings.
One evening we stepped outside for a walk around the campus and heard the crackle of a fire. We could see the flames leaping 20 feet into the sky just a block or so away from us. We didn't see anyone running in panic, but we headed down the road to check out the blaze. Two houses in that area have thatched roofs, and we were also concerned about Sheri Sears's house. When we rounded the bend, we saw two men supervising the fire in a harvested cornfield behind Sheri's house. They had obviously set the fire and were watching it burn with no alarm.
The people in this area often harvest the corn, then cut down the dried stalks, pile them up, and burn them. We stopped to ask these guys why they were doing this at night. They told us that they wait for nightfall so that there is no wind and so they can see exactly where the fire is burning.
We continued our walk around the campus. Within 20 minutes the fire was reduced to embers.
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KEEP UP WITH THE GOOD WORK. I LOVE READING YOUR STORIES. YOU SEEM TO HAVE LOTS OF FUN IN AFRICA. GOD BLESS U ALL THE TIME
LOVE LWEENDO KUMALO
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