Day 3 Arrival in zimbabwe

Day III:We have arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa. The flight from London was very bumpy. The thing I notice the most while flying in was the Sunrise. “The Land of the Rising Sun”. As we wait to land in Johannesburg and I see the hundreds of shacks that I have seen only in news reels and movies. Amazed that people live there. We are all tired and grungy. Flying for 2 days is no fun. Thank God I brought a clean shirt in my carry on. I change my shirt, they are waiting to have a dedication ceremony at Seke in Zimbabwe. We won’t have time to clean up or change clothes. We walk out on the flight field to catch the plane for Harare, Zimbabwe. It is a 1 ½ hour flight, the bumpiest of all. We arrive in Harare. Our Luggage is lost, so we buy our visas and go through custom. Simplisius and Veronica our host are waiting for us. We meet our Drivers that will be with us the whole journey. We are greeted at Seke with Singing, beautiful singing, drumming, and dancing. It is wonderful. I dance and clap my hands with them. We get Introductions which I cannot remember, their Language is Shona. Their names are so beautiful and I will mispronounce and butcher them throughout our journey. The Hospice building is small, built of stone. Small rooms and dark inside. Arkansas Hospice has donated money to build it. And they are having a dedication ceremony for it. Diana presents them with a plaque honoring Seke Rural Hospice. We have lunch in a crowded room with all the dignitaries and the District Chief. We clap our hands together to honor the Chief. Women bring in a bucket of warm water and liquid soap. Starting with the Chief, she pours water from a kettle, while you hold your hands over a basin and you wash them. When everyone has washed their hands, they bring in the food. The menu is rice, maza, Chicken, beef, and hot tea. The women serve us, starting with the Chief. The food is simple and delicious. After lunch we all go back outside. We listen to all the dignitaries speak about Seke Rural Hospice. In between speakers there is singing and drumming. The children sing songs to us. They are so sweet. We finally head to our home away from home. Because it is Winter in Zimbabwe, it gets dark at 5:30pm. We are staying at a place I call out of Africa. “Mitzishe”, It Is a resort with a small game park that has Zebras, antelope, and Giraffes. Our lodging is round brick buildings with a thatch roof made out of the tall grasses you see growing everywhere. There are 2 beds to each hut with a kitchen in between and a outside building for the lavatory and shower. There are beautiful gardens. Half wild and half manicured. Clean but past its prime, kind of seedy looking. The accommodations if rated from 3 to 1, they would be a 1. They did have hot water most of the time and mosquito netting. The first night was the only night we had electricity all night. The place is run on a generator, 1 hour in the morning and one hour at night. For me that was quite interesting after the owner slyly informed us there were pythons and Cobras about, that last one I blocked completely out of my mind until the day before we left. Every night I would have to take the flash light and look under the bed and between the sheets before I could sleep. The first night we ate dinner in the Lodge, we could tell the cook had went to a lot of trouble for us. Becky and I are roommates. Yea! Luggage arrived after dinner. There were also Hollering Apes that set up a holler when I got in the shower. That night I took a sleeping pill and finally got some sleep. My Heart Sings as excitement courses through me.



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Brenda McDaniel R.N. Cht., Reiki Master Teacher, Certified Crystal Healer
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