Monday afternoon

Monday we spent a lot of time in the car getting to the specific projects. Traffic is really outrageous. Imagine Boylston Street (or Stillorgan dual carriage way) and seven cars wide in a two or three lane road - it's brutal and not for the faint of heart, seems the only way to do it is to keep pushing your way through. Luckily we are in huge Unicef 4x4s and the drivers seem very capable. Scooters swerve in and out of cars non-stop. Ok enough about traffic and congestion.

In the afternoon we visited a school with new construction funded by Unicef - the school has 2,000 students who come in two shifts, 1,000 at a time. The kids wear white coats over their clothes like pharmacists (or shopkeepers in Ireland). They were well behaved beautiful kids who were intrigued by the visitors. They share a textbook between two or three students and are responsible for buying their own copy books and book bags. We told them why we were visiting and had some fun with them and they had some questions for the visitors from the USA which were great:

How old are you? (the women among us all looked at the floor)
Do you know Beyonce? (who was on most of the covers on their copy books)
How was the weekend?
Why are you here?
Their English is limited but we enjoyed the interaction very much and these kids are the future of Angola, not to mention beautiful beyond words. Pics to follow.