Mozambican Adventures of the Beilfuss family (Madison chapter)
08 May 2007
Haircuts!
We are happy to report that we all three have survived our first haircuts in Africa. Miraculously, I performed two of them (not my own) - Rich's with the #3 blade on his cordless trimmer (our colleage Mike said, "Adopted the African bush haircut, eh?") and Ian's with the sharpest scissors we could find. It's not exactly Studio 924, but we did OK. I lucked out in discovering that another staffer Cheryl was, in earlier days, a hairdresser! As if pre-arranged, a bushbuck and a vervet monkey passed by while Cheryl was cutting. Think of the money we'll save!
Our family has moved back to Madison (we returned mid-August 2008) for a variety of reasons. While we are very sad to have left the Chitengo family we had come to love -- and the extraordinary natural resource, Gorongosa National Park -- we are very excited to be back in our old Jean Street neighborhood in Madison, and to be able to see and communicate with our friends and family more readily.
"A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambque" by William Finnegan.
"Drawn from the Plains: Life in the Wilds of Southern Africa", by Lynne Tinley, wife of the ecologist who documented the plants and animals at Gorongosa before the wars. Out of print but available through www.abebooks.com
"The Safari Companion: A Guide to Watching African Mammals" by Richard D. Estes
We are happy to report that we all three have survived our first haircuts in Africa. Miraculously, I performed two of them (not my own) - Rich's with the #3 blade on his cordless trimmer (our colleage Mike said, "Adopted the African bush haircut, eh?") and Ian's with the sharpest scissors we could find. It's not exactly Studio 924, but we did OK. I lucked out in discovering that another staffer Cheryl was, in earlier days, a hairdresser! As if pre-arranged, a bushbuck and a vervet monkey passed by while Cheryl was cutting. Think of the money we'll save!
