A start

C'est parti! This is the start of my blog about my ten weeks stay in Mozambique. My plan was to start this blog the day we bought out flight tickets, but since I couldn't keep myself waiting - here it is!

So, why Mozambique? I will start by giving you a short answer. Me and my friend Kajsa have manage to get through four and a half years of engineering school and have reached the point where it is time to do our Master's Thesis. After several hours of crazy brainstorming, wine drinking and waffle eating we've come up with the idea to go to Mozambique. Not completely out of the blue of course. Our project is a smaller part of a larger project called STEEP-RES which is looking in to the question on how to increase access to electricity in Tanzania and Mozambique. And also to do it in a sustainable way. Our part in this is to investigate the potential of using small scale hydro power to increase the electricity access in rural areas in Mozambique. An aim we hope to fulfill by doing interviews with concerned parties in Mozambique and visit suitable sites for hydro power plants in the countryside. This is all the details I will give you for now but more details to come when we've started working for real (so far we've only had a meeting where our supervisors told us how much we have to work before we leave - oh my).

The idea of this blog is to tell you all about our adventures during ten weeks in Mozambique. Before we leave, you will get a glimpse of the preparations for the trip, hear about Kajsa's obsession to organise everything with post-its and some everyday happenings in Göteborg.

And yes, one more explanation. So, why a sentence in French? For those of you who don't already know it, have just returned to Sweden after living five months in Grenoble, France. This sudden change of culture shows off in the funniest ways. An example is that it has left me with random French phrases swirling around in my head on a daily basis and since I have no one to say them to (my mum gives me rather poor response when I talk to her in French) I guess I just have to write them down when I get the chance. Anyways, the phrase simply means that we've started. Mozambique here we come!