Just an average Saturday afternoon in Suubi Village :)

and people wonder why we love it here? :)

just for fun

Here’s a cool example of how a simple idea works. Last week, Marimekko presented its Spring/Summer 2011 fashion collection at Helsinki’s wholesale flower market, a vast building near the harbor where most imported flowers land first. Pathways created with masses of potted plants, and summer-dreamy music by Matti Pentikäinen, gave a minimalist background for the season’s collection designed by Mika Piirainen and Noora Niinikoski.



Marimekko Spring/Summer 2011 from The Cool Hunter on Vimeo.

lest we forget the joys of swinging

These shots were taken on Sunday in Suubi Village. I love the freedom that a swing can bring.
Such a simple pleasure.
So often forgotten.

 

An adder to start the day

 

As I walked up the hill from our house to school the other morning I saw a large group of students crowded around a bucket.  Curiosity got the best of me so I went to investigate.  The contents were a coiled, two foot long, fat, young puff adder.  One of the senior boys had seen the snake in the long grass near the school and hit it on the head.  It was still alive so I dealt with him.  It is now kept in preservative in the biology lab- one of the advantages of a science department located in the African bush. After some research it turns out that Puff Adders are responsible for more deaths than any other African snake. Apparently they move sluggishly until provoked when they can strike with startling speed.  Would have been nice to know that little fact before I got close for photos.

Cece Winans - Million Miles

a quote we love!

by Bono from U2:
"It's an amazing thing to think that ours is the first generation in history that really can end extreme poverty, the kind that means a child dies for lack of food in its belly. That should be seen as the most incredible, historic opportunity but instead it's become a millstone around our necks. We let our own pathetic excuses about how it's "difficult" justify our own inaction. Be honest. We have the science, the technology, and the wealth. What we don't have is the will, and that's not a reason that history will accept....We can be the generation that no longer accepts that an accident of latitude determines whether a child lives or dies. But will we be that generation? "