Games

Here we have one of the Local games. There are two variants on the game, both which are fairly simple, but hard to explain. I'll be honest, I tried writing up a how to on the more complicated version, but after reading what I had wrote decided not to post it. I'll try to explain the simple way of playing the game.

Each player has their own side.At the start they place two beans in each of the holes, except for the square one. The object of the game is to get all your beans into your square hole.

For each players turn, they pick all the beans in one of their holes and distribute them one by one into the subsequent holes. If you finish on the Square, you go again. If you end up on a hole with more of your beans, you pick up all the beans (including the one you just deposited) and repeat the previous steps. Your turn ends when you place a bean in a hole with nothing in it. Oh the game is played counter clockwise around your half of the board. That pretty much covers it, it's a very entertaining simple game that is often played in the Delta with holes in the ground and rocks.

In other news, I'm no longer hanging out at Kavango Air. Now each morning I get up, head to the airport and try to mooch flights off of every company. The one major plus from the Kavango Air experience was that John (the Chief Pilot) has agreed to be a reference for me for future jobs.

And final Bit to add, the stars down here are spectacular. Amazing. There is almost no pollution, and no mountains so you see from horizon to horizon stars like I have never seen before. I'm sure those of you way up north (Dereck, Greg) get the same effect, on the other hand when I go out to look at the stars at 2am, it's still in the twenties (positive).

Until next time,

Eli