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Some shots of some really cute kids
Sometimes when I'd stop and take pictures of people they would want me to give them a copy of the picture. A couple of times I was able to get them to give me their address so I could put their pics in the mail to them. That was the case with this picture. I came across these women on the day I was exploring the Bvumba Mtns on my own. They were selling all sorts of leafy vegetables like rape, cabbage, tsunga and chomallia. Don't kids always have their fingers in their noses?
On the same day I took the above picture I was riding along and found myself sharing the road with a ton of school kids. They were changing shifts so I stopped and took some pics. A smile goes a long way with these kids. A bit futher up the road was their school. I made friends with a young woman named Sharon, who was quite surprised that I didn't speak a word of Shona, her language and heritage. Before she ran off to class she wanted me to take her picture. I asked her to stand infront of the school sign. A few other kids decided they wanted to be part of the picture also.
These women were selling sugar cane and baobao (?) across the road from the school (see Kids). I bought some sugar cane and then asked woman in the purple headwrap how I was supposed to eat it. She took out this huge knife... more like a machette and peeled part of the sugar cane back for me.
These three pics are of some of the men that came to look at the bikes as we made a rest stop in Zambia. Across the street from here was a primative slaughterhouse. The first young mans name is Oswell. When we first pulled up he and his friends were eating some small fruit that looked like cheeries or crab apples. He gave me a taste of some of his. Later I found that he'd put a few extra in my gloves.
These two women were sitting right along the side of the road nursing their 6 month old babies. I asked the talkative one if she'd show me how she carries her child on her back. Amazing to me that the babies don't fall off while their mothers wrap the blanket around her and the baby
