Friday, June 3, 2011
Fatigued Friday. Everyone was exhausted today, including me… Jonathan wore me out this week! I don’t think he was feeling 100% today, I could hear him screaming from the main-road. Although everyone was sluggish today, we immediately perked up when we saw that Leonard made us apple cake and BWeave got us ice cream! It was the best apple cake I have EVER had AND we had biscuits and gravy for breakfast… today was a great food day… but I walked 24.8 miles this week so it is all good J On the way back from town, Dr. Weston saw a 3 ft mamba on the side of the road… scccary! After dinner some of us played “futball” with the locals while some people hung out and talked with Grace. Grace told Lauren that the reason why the bride was not wearing white last weekend was because she was pregnant. How embarrassing! After we played “futball” for a while, some of us played Phase 10 and had a chocolate and coca-cola party. When you are living in the bush… chocolate is incredibly exciting. Thank you Naiveen and Breezy.
SO, we have been talking about our plans for Livingstone… white water rafting!!! Chesley is going to be so jealous!! Special K did some research for us, we can ride an elephant, bunjee jump, zip-line, go on a rhino walk, or go white water rafting… ahhh so much I want to do! I was going to go bunjee jumping until I heard that it is over the Zambeezee River, which has crocodiles!! No thank you.
Meagan Hawley got in today… she is a favorite around The Haven. Meagan is from Oklahoma and came years ago for class while she was attending Oklahoma Christian University. She fell in love with all the children and decided to stay and live here for four years. She moved back to the states to save up some money and is here now for the medical mission… she is one impressive lady. Meagan told us that she got malaria four times and was stuck with numerous HIV infected needles while living here. Yikes.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Shopping Saturday. After breakfast, BWeave and Dr. Tullos shuttled us into Kalomo for a shopping extravaganza. Most of us were all on the prowl for chitangees and chocolate while Ben and Tessa searched for soccer cleats. Ben was able to bargain his soccer cleats down from 200K to 65K (roughly $13). We finally found some masculine chitangees at one of the “tents” Dr. Tullos brought us to. When I say “tent”, I mean thousands of sticks put together to form hundreds of tents, with trash on top for shade. The markets are what I like to call, the real Africa. Namwianga is not luxury to most Americans but if you asked the average Zambian, I believe they would say that we are living quite nice over here.
It’s always an interesting experience when we, makuwa, go to the market. Makuwa is what many Zambians call “white person”. As soon as the first “tent” spots a makuwa, they pass it on. Before you even step foot into the market, everyone already knows you are there. As you can imagine, the prices suddenly go up but some of us were able to bargain. After we got back to Namwianga, Anna and I went to Mrs. Mona’s….again. She said it would be 60K for a men’s collared shirt with buttons; which is only about $12…. Sold.
We saw a substantial amount of progress with the little ones this week! Many have began to crawl, turn over, walk, and talk. Jonathan pointed to his nose on command last week. That day was my favorite day since we have been here, I was so proud of him. Leo is crawling, Victoria is sitting up on her own, Mary smiled (with teeth!!!!!!), Maureen said “auntie”, Nathan is socializing… it has been a great week!
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