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dad-yes i can use word and just copy and paste but at internet cafes they charge you as soon as you sit down, but once i get to catherines for good (friday) then i can do that and it will save lots of problems :)
katy-nshima is the traditional staple here in zambia, it is cornmeal and water cooked and cooked and cooked and it turns into almost a really really thick cream of wheat. they serve it to you in patties and then you pull a chunck off and roll it into a ball and the press down to make it into a spoon like contraption and then use it to eat the other food.

again, i'll post pictures when i can, but it has not been easy..hopefully at catherine's house i'll be able to!

so...i don't really remember where I was.
oh. we ate lunch and then headed of to chingola. We got in and settled at the hotel and then grabbed a lite dinner since we ate lunch at about 3:30. Then (it was only like 7 o'clock) we went to our rooms and tried to find things to do until we were tired. Journaling is taking over my life..it never ends sigh.

Backing up a little...when we first got here (zambia) we realized after we were at our hotel that we were only stamped in for two weeks (ashley) and 30 days (rachael) which was a problem since we are here until august... so we had to go back to the airport and after some problems we discovered that we have to get our stay extended in chingola..so we were ok, but then we also realized that our visas are only double entry, not multiple. So if we left the country to travel through the congo, and then came back in we would have used our two. And we would have to buy another visa to go back the same way two days later, and at that time we thought we were going to have to pay for congolese visas as well, so it would get quite expensive. BUT. we didn't have to pay for visas for the congo because of the letter we got the immigration office to write for us saying we are just passing through, so now we'll just have to buy new zambia visas....oh well...

alright..we're off to the congo! more when I can :)