Africa for Beginners Part 2: Photographic Evidence

Thanksgiving in Botswana! Penn med student Ali and Columbia Derm resident Vishal are hard at work preparing turkey from World Foods, an import store in Gabs that inherited some turkeys this year after they were unsucessfully smuggled from SA to Zimbabwe! Alex, another Penn med student awaiting the fruits of our labors.

The Hash ceremonies! Newbies and those guilty of misdemeanors during the run/walk have to enter the circle and chug the most disgusting thing the "brew master" can create. And yes, those are children.

This hash took us past the former church and home of Dr. David Livingstone, the Scottish explorer and missionary who re-named Victoria Falls, and disappeared while exploring Southern Africa. His church was up and running in 1860, and it's now the pile of rocks seen below, which makes colonial Boston and Williamsburg seem all the more impressive.

Here Ryan and I are struggling in our lack of modern conveniences...