Giogio was walking in the same direction than us and we ended walking with him. At the intersection of the road he was such a pleasant guy that we went with him and he took us to his village and his house...Well he really didn't have a house anymore since the cyclone hit pretty hard around here. It was great to have KK, the mud engineer, with me because otherwise I really cannot follow a man home just like this.
Here is Giogio's family at home.
He then proceeded to take us around, first to the village water pump (built by the company I work for here after their last drilling campaign in 2003) and then to the beach roughly 4 kilometres away.
Giogio is a really nice guy. It was nice of him to take the time. He never showed us off as prizes, which normally happens. He spoke very little english and could not understand my question when I tried to ask where he had learned the little english he knew. I tell you he knew a lot more english than an average north american knows portuguese!What a nice morning this was. A short little walk turned into a long walk (it must have been well over 10km all together) and a great opportunity to go to Shepong (the village), not that far from here really but which none of us had any idea existed. With the houses being huts etc the habitations do not stand out at all around here.
When we arrived at the beach there was three abandoned concrete houses. One had written on it 'This building belongs to the Austral Bank etc etc....' with a phone number. It must have been quite nice in its time. Giogio explained that these houses were abandoned during the civil war.
When we were walking together Giogio saw a bird and tried to shoot it. The sound of the arrow being released and flying scared the bird and he flew away, but the arrow landed just where he had been and went over 2 inches into the sandy ground!
