Catching up, Botswana Independence Day, 50 years!

 Bots 50 as it was being called, was the Botswana Celebration of 50 years of Independence.  And it was celebrated this year on September 30th.  It is hard as an American to understand what exactly this meant but it was easy to tell that it meant a lot to the citizens of Botswana.  I believe they began preparing for this day years in advance.  There were huge celebrations all across their country.  Of course, this meant that our students were going to be celebrating this day abroad, without there families and close friends.  Also, with the time delay it meant they had to watch all the celebrating that happened in their homeland before we celebrated here.  I imagine this was just a wee bit difficult for them.
We did managed to throw them a pretty good party here in honor of this great day!  

Charlie, Max, Phil, and Moitato maning the grill!

The guys leading us in prayer and singing their National Anthem.

We are pretty international here at Alliance. I believe we had at least 7 different nations represented at this celebration!
Botswana, United States, Philippines, Czech Republic, Zimbabwe, Brazil and Mexico!

Milk Afric and Alliance Dairy celebrating Botswana Independence Day together!

 It has not been all celebrating since the students got here.  In fact I am pretty sure the guys would tell you that it has been a lot of hard work!  It takes a lot of hard work to run a dairy efficiently, it takes hard work to run any business efficiently.  But I am thankful that we have been able to celebrate some good times together.




Maggie