Saturday. We attended a youth day where the topic was marraige and how
to choose the right person to spend the rest of your life with. It was
a very long day, from about 10 until about 5 I think. Let's just say
they have a very different way of thinking about dating and marraige
here. On Sunday we went to church at our home congregation,
Chiwempala, and then in the afternoon we went to the other
congregation, Kasompe to train people to do the surveys for the orphan
program. There were a lot of people there (I counted 23 at the end),
and we really weren't expecting that many to be interested in helping
so that was good.
On Monday we stayed home and rested, and on Tuesday we walked into
town and back for groceries. We tried to call a taxi for the way back,
but the driver was not answering his phone, so we walked back with all
of our groceries. It is about a 35 minute walk each way. Tuesday
afternoon we went to the church for a young adult choir practice that
was supposed to start at 3:00. We were a bit late, but at about 3:50
when nobody else was still there, we left. Then, they ended up
practicing after all shortly after 4:00 I guess. Time is quite
different here because transportation is unreliable so nothing really
starts when it is supposed to. There also may have been some
miscommunication because some people thought the practice was supposed
to start at 3:30 anyway.
On Wednesday we went to Kasompe for a big seminar for this area of
Zambia church leaders. It was led by Bunda, an American, and two
English church members, and they talked about the We Share document.
We left our house at 7:45 in the morning and got back around 9:00 at
night. When we got back, there was no power. On Thursday, the outage
continued on until about 3:30 in the afternoon. We washed some laundry
by hand in the morning, and I caught up on my journaling and read
some. We then went to the church for bible study, but again nobody was
there. This was maybe supposed to start 30 minutes after we had
thought, and maybe the people were tired from the Wednesday seminar
and called it off. Today we walked into town again to print off
surveys and go to the store, and then explored near our home and went
to some really cool big rocks not far from our home.
Tomorrow we will go to Kasompe to have some volunteers survey the
community for orphan's needs, and Sunday we will go to church and then
go to a youth activity in the afternoon. I will not have internet for
about 10 days, as Catherine is going to Malawi for that time and
taking her computer with her. I will update you all in about a week
and a half. Enjoy the 4th! We plan to make an American meal for our
family here.
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