Two down twenty two more to go

Not that I'm counting. Life in the village is lovely and this time I have pictures to prove it. check it out

So many wierd and wonderful things happen everyday, it is strange that I draw a blank when I am in front of a computer. Of course for me to be in front of a computer it means that I have had a shift in my normal day. Right now I am sitting in the house of white farmer's who have been so nice as to invite me to spend the night. I've left winston at home and he is going to be spending the night outside for the first time ever since I adopted him. Usually he gets a nice dinner of whatever I'm having (see pics), a hot bath and he falls asleep in my bed while I read. Tonight he just gets kapenta, ubwali and sleeps in the insaka. A great life for any Zambian dog, but I am sure my pampered pooch won't think so.

I had my big community meeting on Friday. I showed up at 9:00, when the meeting was supposed to start and wasn't suprised at all to be the only one there. Everything starts late. I thought I would get home by 1:00 at the most. Two hours later when thte meeting was going to start I got my flipchart and was strapping it to a tree when the chief's advisor came over and very slowly told me that the was a big snake in the tree. And there was. Zambians are terrified of snakes. I guess I took a little long getting away from the snake- it was far from me and really didn't look poisonous, caused a bit of a panic. Men rushed over and tried to kill it and there was a lot of hub bub. After the snake escaped I moved my chart and the meeting began. Our speaker was a man who was upset about a beer brewing party that was happening at the smae time as our meeting. People were upset becuase 1) people were at the party instead of our meeting and 2) becuase they were at our meeting instead of drinking beer. This resulted in a 20 minute arguement. That is why our meeting was 6 hours long. I missed lunch. Not the best day ever.

Ok I have to go help with lunch I will be back later.