After Choma, Mark and Tyler asked if they could interview me about my experience thus far. I hope I answered the questions like they wanted me to but it’s hard to reflect when I am still experiencing. Tyler asked me why I thought this program was beneficial, how I have grown from this professionally, spiritually, why I thought traveling was important, etc. After an hour or so, I joined the rest of our group and watched a movie on a projector, outside of the Hamby House.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Today was by far the best day in Zambia, thus far. After breakfast, 30 of us (including the hoppers and ragsadles) went to visit Leanard’s village, Kasibi, about 20 minutes away in the bush. It was a bumby ride but completely worth every pot hole. He cooked sheemah for us and baked a cake that read “Kasibi Church Cake”, naturally.
It was a little awkward because Leanard only cooked for the visitors so the rest of the villagers didn’t eat. They did drink the sweet beer that we were not allowed to drink (5 people in Choma died recently because of the bad water). The food was great, as usual, and the experience was spectacular.
While we were eating, 5 villagers started playing different instruments made out of wood and animal skin. As soon as the drums began (gnoma), the villagers started dancing around in a circle. Now, I know why every African-American in the states knows how to dance. These little girl’s hips moved better than Shakira’s and the little boy’s legs moved faster than Michael Jackson’s. As soon as BWeave and Dr. Hopper joined them, we all followed. We spent the next two hours dancing around the band with the villagers. The women tied chitangee’s around their hips to emphasize their moves. I’m hoping Mark and Tyler got some good shots because that is a memory I would to watch over and over.
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