Sunday, July 26, 2009

Well...let's see. I left off with Tuesday...we didn't do anything of great interest the rest of Tuesday..

Wednesday I woke up fairly sick so I slept and watched movies for most of the day. Ashley ventured to Bible Study in the afternoon, and that was pretty much the whole day.

Thursday we hung out in the morning, did laundry, and had women's group in the afternoon.

Friday we walked into town, got ice cream, bought groceries, got some lunch, and walked home. I journaled and read for most of the afternoon and hung out with Chilando a bit.

Saturday was kids activity day, we prepared BINGO cards to play with them, but our translator did not arrive right away, which was going to make it a bit difficult. We did what we could, and she came about half an hour into it so we could actually communicate the lesson with them. We played games and sang and then they preformed a traditional dance for us. And then we went home. We had lunch and watched Kung Fu Panda with Chilando and Maureen and then at about 4 we walked back to the church with the youth for choir practice. They were having a meeting in the church when we got there, so we hung out outside until they were done. For some reason Priscilla was pretending that she didn't speak English and would only speak to us in Bemba, which I'm sure is much more entertaining for her than it is for us...

They took us through the Chiwempala market on the way home which was cool to see, lots of staring though. We got back from practice and had dinner, and watched the Kids Movie of the night-Click. It's been an Adam Sandler film festival all month...Catherine said something about us preaching in church today, which no one had notified us of. And they joke with us so much we never really know if they're telling the truth or not, but this was something we really need to know if it was true, and by the end of the conversation we weren't preaching but we were leading the Wednesday bible study and the Thursday women's meeting..

Today was our last church service which was bittersweet. We sang with the youth as usual, and they made me lead one of the songs we taught them...which was confusing when Priscilla wouldn't speak English to tell us what was going on. The pastor got up and talked about us a little bit since it was our last service, I have no idea what she said because we were standing up with her and no one translated for us, and then she had us say a few words.
We came home and Catherine started making ALL this food, and all these people came out of no where when it was ready. I have no idea who half of them were.

This afternoon we're going to Kasompe for our last Youth Activity there. This week is made up of lots of random things. Tomorrow we're going to the Congo/Zambia border to buy stuff and we're also going to this animal orphanage about 40 minutes away. We're not really sure what it is, but it's been something we've been wanting to do all summer.
We have our typical Wednesday/Thursday activites, and then Friday will be a lot of packing. We'll go into town once or twice more and do a bit more laundry. And then a week from today we'll be coming home!
I am very ready to be home, but it really is amazing how fast the time went here!

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