Suddenly everything's changed, its even going a tiny bit
green and we can again buy many mangos or possibly many mangoes, I'm not sure
what the plural or Mango is if you're not sure what is going on. So it
rained!!!! about 2 weeks ago it rained a bit and then this week it rained like
it was out of fashion... which it kinda is seeing as its only about the 3rd
rain since sometime in April! Suddenly its getting humid round here.... not
very humid but there is when you've been used to no humidity its noticeable.
Although I have to point out that it's not got that hot it's not been above 35
degrees and certainly hasn't been as hot as we were both expecting which it
turns out is very welcome!
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| Cholwe Giving his testimony |
We travelled down to Lusaka for a weekend of training. Rich
went to Lusaka International community school for iGCSE maths training course
ran by Cambridge international examinations which was really useful expecially
as he's never taught maths before he came to Zambia it gave him a better idea
of what is expected. Lucy went to a ISAZ teacher training day thats held every
year which was at the American international school which was also very useful.
It was as well it was all useful as it was a long weekend we left school at
1:30 in the friday afternoon and rich drove to lusaka after dropping people off it was
21:30 so a long drive and too much of it in the dark. Then on the Sunday after
a morning at his course rich drove us all the way back only doing the last hour
in the dark this time and managing to do the journey in under 7 hours which is
decent these days!
We had the primary dorm girls round to make some cup cakes,
they had made a scarecrow to keep the birds and monkeys off our small plot so
we thought we ought to invite them over to say thanks. It was good fun, but we
have been finding hand prints on our walls since but no matter it was all good
fun!
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| Girls in our kitchen making cookies (in Zambia its not swearing honest) |
This week was half term which was supposed to be a rest but
has turned out to be a slightly less hectic school week, with practical exams
to set up for A'level physics and invigilating of other exams. We were supposed
to go to Lusaka on Wednesday but Rich wasn't well so we didn't go, which was a
good job as when we would have been flying back was the huge rain storm, not
being a small aircraft pilot i'm not sure but i don't think small 8 seat planes are designed to fly through storms. So we would have either not been
able to fly or had a rather bumpy flight! Hopefully we can go next week instead!
Yesterday we were
invited to Musenga youth group, which was very cool we played games with the
guys who turned up and Rich once again showed that being tall doesn't mean
being good at basket ball, and Lucy once again showed that being small doesn't
mean you're bad at Basketball! we went on a scavenger hunt as well which proved
to us that the plot that Lucy used to live on was big. At the end Rich spoke,
which seemed to go down well. Well at least they were all awake at the end!
When we finished we got talking to a few of the youth who remembered Mr Clive
and even some who remembered Matt and Luke! It was good fun and good to get out
and see people close by who are outside of Amano!
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| Rich speaking at Musenga youth |
Our next half term is only 5 weeks which is nice as the last
one was 7! which means we're very nearly finished our first year. We've spoken
to different people and have decided to stay here at Amano until December next
year so we finish off the next academic year, but we're still planning on being
back in August.
Also its Rich's birthday a week on Monday which is very
important.
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| Students who were baptised (with Youth workers Jarrett and Kerry) |
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| Baptism service |
