Happy Easter to all! I hope it was a relaxing, peaceful time for everyone. I had a different kind of Easter this year. I went mountain climbing on Saturday. I climbed Mount Nyangani, which is the tallest mountain in Southern Africa. It’s peak is just over 8500 feet. The drive to the base is about 30 minutes out of Nyanga. The climb was hard, there isn’t a real path, there are white arrows painted on rocks that mark the route but you are climbing up the rocks. The view made it all worth it, you could see the whole valley and it was amazing. It took 4.5 hours return trip and I have now had my exercise to last me a year. If that wasn’t enough, Sunday afternoon we did another hike called World’s View. It’s at a resort known as Troutbeck. The drive to the base is about 15 minutes. The hike took about 1.5 hours return. There was no path and no arrows. In some ways it was harder than Nyangani but less steep. This view shows you a different look at the valley. It was really interesting because there was a patch of rain in the middle of the valley. All around was clear but this one square of cloud and rain, it was really weird and interesting. We were able to watch the sunset. This also made it a nice day because early that morning we had watched the sunrise from a farm on a rock. So I spent my Easter Sunday watching the day start and end. It’s unbelievable to imagine the natural beauty that happens everyday that we all take for granted. It would be nice to be able to do this everyday but reality sets in and I’ll just have to settle for once in a while. I have been busy putting together the building sheets, calculations and gathering the requirements needed by council to build the library. We are using a drafting teacher from one of the local high schools to design the project, which I will approve, oversea and make changes. So I have been busy learning the local building codes and bylaws so I can combine the plans with environmental standards to make this project as environmentally friendly as possible. Zimbabwe doesn’t have any real or strict environmental standards, which is unfortunate but good for me since this gives me a wide range to do what I can. I visited the site on Thursday as was able to start visualizing in my head what this will all look like. I have yet to be able to go inside the current library on the property to see what kind of shape it’s in and find a way to keep it on the site and what kind of use it has in the bigger scheme of the project.