One week until we leave for the big trip!
The hardest thing I am going to struggle with in this final week is handling my excitement!
Every time we are out about organising things for the trip, we always end up discussing our exciting plans with the latest staff member. People are so fascinated and often openly jealous, and quite frankly I don't blame them :)
Just one wee note for now. (ooo good pun Mez).
This afternoon we popped into see some South African friends of Fiver and Stuart's - Paolo and Daniella. They showed us some fantastic pictures of places we must see and people we must meet along our way. I found out a bit about the Zimbabwean dollar and its troubles and decided to look it up a little more.
Paolo showed me a Zimbabwean dollar note.....a 5billion dollar one! Due to inflation in just one year (07-08), the $10 dollar note skyrocketed to a 100 billion dollar note (around USD .64, which wasn't quite enough for a loaf of bread).
I was also told some people could afford a taxi to work in the morning, but by the end of the work day they wouldn't be able to afford to get home again. For others, when they did have money, they would rush out to buy bread or other basics before the unmeasurable prices soared once again.
In feb this year, ZWR300Trillion was equivalent to 1USD.
People use old notes for toilet paper.
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