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Here are some hastily taken pictures of our homestead, showing the road down to it from the “main” road, “Make Olpa” (the mother of the household, our principal contact – some limited English and a tremendously warm and welcoming heart) with her daughter's 4 year old son Thabiso and her sister's 2 year-old son Lethokuhle, and the door to our 1-room stone floor tin-roof hut – with electricity, but no heat or running water. Learning to cook, bathe, brush teeth and wash hands has been a real learning experience. This evening when we got home from class (“diversity and inclusion”, finishing up on parasites, and Swazi culture and behavior) Katherine helped with the cooking (insisting on washing her hands after handling raw meet – much amusement) and I helped saw some wood, until Make instructed her husband I was not to work so hard. That's OK – I have lot's of vocab to practice. Katherine fixed most of dinner, partly because the daughter, who would have fixed it, has a terrible chest cold. They said the dinner – sausage, mashed potatoes and cooked, fresh carrots - was “healthy”.