Hello everyone! Its been awhile since I've blogged but there's not much new going on here in Zambia. After three months in my village, I went to Lusaka last week for a week of training. I was reunited with my training class and it was nice to see everyone. It was really weird to be in a city though. I got to see the new Batman--the first time I'd been to the movies in 6 months, so I splurged and bought some popcorn. It was probably the highlight of the week. Batman was awesome. Also during that week, the president of Zambia died, Levy Mwanawasa. This was pretty sad, though not altogether unexpected. After Lusaka I went with a couple friends to Chipata to just hang out for a few days because we decided to postpone our trip to Malawi. Here, we became addicted to the show Prison Break, managing to watch an entire season over two and half days. I'm heading back to the village today after having been gone for nearly two weeks. I'm really looking foward to going back.
Village life has been good for the most part. I went to some meetings. I tried to organize a community meeting but it failed to happen a couple more times. They should start building my house soon because hot season is fast approaching and then it will be rainy season and there won't be any time to build. We'll see.
I went to the post office yesterday and had about 6 packages--so if you sent me a package I probably got it. The problem is that my backpack is so huge and heavy right now that I won't be able to get them back to my house until the next time I come into the Boma. It might be a couple weeks. I did take two small packages from my dad and my mom's friend Paula. So thank you!!
That's about it for now. Miss you all!
Love,
Caitlin
Thursday, August 28, 2008
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