Africa is open, remote, and ready for exploring! We have just completed our second transatlantic trip as a family – in this, travel in the time of Corona – journeying between Royal Chundu, Zambia, and the United States. And never have we ever… felt safer, more appreciated, more accommodated, and…
Ten years on and the tale just gets more exciting! Our particular tale, the Royal Chundu story, is inextricably linked to its storytellers ~ the Royal Chundu family. The people of Zambia, of the Zambezi. Our story started in 2010, but it has been in the making for generations, through…
“If you make it with your hands, you will better understand…”
There’s a line in the song, Mortal Man, by Jeremy Loops, a South African musician. “If you make it with your hands / You will better understand / So keep your feet out / To the calling.” It struck us that that’s just what our Homeschool has given us and many of…
Behind the exteriors of the world’s trees there beats the heart of a superhero. Among the largest and oldest living organisms on the planet, trees are able to warn one another of approaching danger and mount a defence. In certain cases, they are able to send their armies to fight…
Lesson 6 in the Royal Chundu Homeschool Sometimes we need to be gently nudged or outright pushed into taking time to be still and to focus on the simple joys. We’ve being paying these little quiet pleasures so much quality time in the last few weeks and learning new tricks…
Lesson One! Learning a new language takes time, dedication, curiosity. Some dialects are particularly harder than others – sometimes our tongues just won’t do what we tell them to do, our mouths just cannot figure out how to roll that “r”, how to create the correct click or intonation, or…