A Sleepless Night
Was the experience frightening at all? Any specific examples?
I had only one frightening experience while I was away, which was when we stayed for one night in a motel in the city of Tete, before flying back to Maputo the next day. It was more like a hostel rather than a motel, with one (really gross) toilet and shower per floor. I could hear shouting in the motel during the night, and something that was either a gunshot or a car backfiring in the street. That was a frightening experience, but it was the only time that I felt at all afraid or unsafe the entire trip. The local World Vision staff did a great job of looking after us and respecting our needs which were different to theirs. For instance, they thought that Australians had to eat all the time, so they were always giving us snacks and drinks :-).
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