Fish and the City
So I've spent the last fews days and too much money in Lusaka. Lusaka is America. See picture.
I have had electricity. Hot water most of the time and sometimes hot and cold water at the same. The place where we were staying gave everyone bedbugs and our mosquito nets weren't treated so they became mosi traps.
Next time I'm in Lusaka I am staying at an ex-pat's house.
I saw the Borat movie. The big naked man in it is Armenian. I have been going out to restaurants, going to karaoke and speaking English. I can't wait to go home. It's been fun but I miss my dog and my own bed. City life is a little too much for me at the moment. And I have a lot of work to do in the village before I go out on vacation.
A lot has happened since I last wrote. I had a part time puppy for a while... until his owner took him away. His name is was Franklin.
I got my house cemented... it only took 3 months but hey it was free. I finally have my christmas vacation planned out and it's scuba in Malawi for sure.
I went to a interesting Independence Day festival at the elementary school nearby and there was a lot of sexual dancing which you can see here. There are also a few more pictures up here.
Vahan's 25th birthday was a few days ago. I can't believe how time flies.
Aside from fish farming my women's groups are doing good, teaching preschool is challenging and sometimes rewarding, and my HIV/AIDS sessions are always interesting. The sex questions you get from 60 year old grandmas are always a little off putting. And so was the time a small child stuck a condom I threw on the floor after a demonstration into his mouth. My tree nursery is awesome and I am getting my farmers to plant a lot of moringa which I am pushing for pretty hard.
Since the rainy season is here I am getting a little more serious about my garden. My farmers are going to be busy in the field. My roads are going to be less navigatable and I won't have to water as much. I want to get a lot of things planted and flowering before the bee swarming season starts in January so I can get my bees working. I am also getting a goat and milking it every morning. So between the moringa, my beans, my bees, my goats and my other veggies I think the only thing I will have to go into the market for is kapenta for winston and flour for baking.
Other than that I am making my house bigger, soon it will comfortably sleep 5 plus the hammock and I am taking up carpentry. It is amazing what you learn how to do yourself when you can't get it from anywhere else.
If you want chirstmas cards get your addresses to me fast fast while I have electricity and you'll get an awesome card drawn by a real life African child from my preschool class. Otherwise I am going to get more ice cream while I can. I love you all and I'll try to write soon.
I have had electricity. Hot water most of the time and sometimes hot and cold water at the same. The place where we were staying gave everyone bedbugs and our mosquito nets weren't treated so they became mosi traps.
Next time I'm in Lusaka I am staying at an ex-pat's house.
I saw the Borat movie. The big naked man in it is Armenian. I have been going out to restaurants, going to karaoke and speaking English. I can't wait to go home. It's been fun but I miss my dog and my own bed. City life is a little too much for me at the moment. And I have a lot of work to do in the village before I go out on vacation.
A lot has happened since I last wrote. I had a part time puppy for a while... until his owner took him away. His name is was Franklin.
I got my house cemented... it only took 3 months but hey it was free. I finally have my christmas vacation planned out and it's scuba in Malawi for sure.
I went to a interesting Independence Day festival at the elementary school nearby and there was a lot of sexual dancing which you can see here. There are also a few more pictures up here.
Vahan's 25th birthday was a few days ago. I can't believe how time flies.
Aside from fish farming my women's groups are doing good, teaching preschool is challenging and sometimes rewarding, and my HIV/AIDS sessions are always interesting. The sex questions you get from 60 year old grandmas are always a little off putting. And so was the time a small child stuck a condom I threw on the floor after a demonstration into his mouth. My tree nursery is awesome and I am getting my farmers to plant a lot of moringa which I am pushing for pretty hard.
Since the rainy season is here I am getting a little more serious about my garden. My farmers are going to be busy in the field. My roads are going to be less navigatable and I won't have to water as much. I want to get a lot of things planted and flowering before the bee swarming season starts in January so I can get my bees working. I am also getting a goat and milking it every morning. So between the moringa, my beans, my bees, my goats and my other veggies I think the only thing I will have to go into the market for is kapenta for winston and flour for baking.
Other than that I am making my house bigger, soon it will comfortably sleep 5 plus the hammock and I am taking up carpentry. It is amazing what you learn how to do yourself when you can't get it from anywhere else.
If you want chirstmas cards get your addresses to me fast fast while I have electricity and you'll get an awesome card drawn by a real life African child from my preschool class. Otherwise I am going to get more ice cream while I can. I love you all and I'll try to write soon.
posted by Laura in Zed @ 5:27 PM
2 Comments:
At 1:05 PM,
Anna said…
hello, i was just randomly browsing, but... are you out near changilo?? i was a volunteer at the upper basic school, & i know there was gonna be fish farm pcv coming into the area... wouldn't that be funny? anna x ps scuba in malawi rocks.
At 9:47 AM,
Laura in Zed said…
Yes I'm in Changilo and I've heard tons about you from Stan and the headmaster. We are getting a new SPW volunteer at Changilo soon. So how is life after Zambia?
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