Update

Well, I really have way more to write than I have the time for, and tomorrow Catherine leaves for Malawi and takes her computer with her :( So I'll try to hit an internet cafe for an update while she is gone.

Tuesday we made our first trek into town by ourselves. It's about a thrity minute walk, and we made it with little problem. We got our groceries and loaded up but the taxi driver was not answering his phone...so we walked back with all our food... Tuesday afternoon we were supposed to go to choir practice at church for a special service on Wednesday. It started at 3. Well we're in Africa so naturally we didn't go on time, we got there maybe 15 mintues late. No one was there, so we waited...for about 30 minutes and then gave up. We met one of the choir members on the way back and she said oh yeah, it started at three. We said, there is no one there, and she just looked at us like, well it's only almost four now..We gave up and went home.

Wednesday we had a very lonnnnng day. Some church members from the states and England were here and they gave a seminar for surrounding congregations. We got to the church around 8 a.m. and left after 8 p.m The seminar ended around 5:30 and then we had a closing service at 6. It was really nice, just veryyyy long. We got back to a house with no power and lit some candles to get something to eat quickly and then fell into bed.

Yesterday we woke up to a house still with no power, so we made our breakfast over a charcoal fire. I sat outside and journaled for a bit and we both did some laundry. Then in the afternoon we were supposed to go to the women's group bible study. Again, we left a little late and again we arrived at the church with no one there...we sat and waited...and gave up. Africa is frustrating....

Today we went into town again to make some copies for our survey attempt tomorrow and got some more groceries. Our phone stopped working again...oh joy..so we tried to find the store to fix it but had no luck. Muzo (Catherine's son) took us to these rocks nearby, big huge boulders that we climbed and hung out at for a while. We had a really great view of the city and it was nice to do something different.

We'll have our first youth activity on Sunday..we'll see how that goes...and then we found out today about this trade fair going on in Ndola next week. All of Zambia has four days off school while this fair is going on. The way they described it to us, it sounds like a renaissance fair, so we're going to try and go to that! Otherwise it's the same schedule, we should be having our first bible study session on Wednesday, but I'm not holding my breath that people will be there when we get there...