We are two electrical engineering students doing our Master's Thesis as a Minor Field Study on small-scale hydro systems in rural Mozambique. This blog is about the adventures we encounter during our ten weeks abroad, but also about the preparation, all good advice we've got and what might just have been time spent sleepless worring about completely unnecessary things.

Sunday, 20 May 2012

Il n’y a pas de problème sans solution


So, now we are getting closer to the end of this trip. One full day in Maputo is left before we go back to good old Sweden. People we met all ask the same things. They start with “When are you going home?” and then they follow up with “And when are you coming back?” with a big smile on their faces. The answer? I don’t know when but I would like to come back. 

I would like to see what happens with the hydro power stations they build now. I would like to see if Mr Zana, one of the most inspiring men we have interviewed, is teaching as he said he would. If Nando, a guy who teaches traditional African dancing, is learning Lindyhop. If Carlos, who fell in love with one of us after meeting us two times (unclear who, he declared his love in a text and we share the same number), found a wife.  And I would like to know what happened to all the other people we’ve met.
 
Tomorrow is goodbye dinner and time for me to send those postcards that took me two months just to find. Mozambique isn’t really a tourist country, huh? Tomorrow is also the time to give you some update on how my birthday was celebrated, part II.

A few photos from the past week:

Tofinho

Tofo beach
traditional African dance team




On the way from the ferry to Inhaca




The sweetest girl we met on Inhaca borrowed my camera for a while




She did a pretty good job taking photos of us as well

 
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5 comments:

  1. Stephan21 May 2012 at 08:57

    It was nice to met you at Inhaca.
    I hope your thesis would be verry well.
    Have a nice trip back to Göteborg.
    May be anytime we see us again.
    Good luck to save the world :-)

    Stephan Karberg

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  2. Sara21 May 2012 at 09:14

    Hey you found my blog, good work! :) It was nice to see you too. It's sad to say it's the last day here :/
    You're always welcome to come visit if you pass by Göteborg. Have a nice end of your vacation! //Sara

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  3. Sara21 May 2012 at 17:04

    Oh btw would you like to send me that photo of me and kajsa sleeping? I heard it was a good one :)

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    1. Stephan22 May 2012 at 01:00

      of course I will sent you the photo but how I can send Photos in this Blog?

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    2. Sara24 May 2012 at 08:44

      Nah, I don't think you can. But you can send it to saris_se@hotmail.com if you want :)

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