Well what a trip we had today. Firstly we were supposed to leave to go to Mansa at 7:30am. We didn’t leave till after 8am as the vehicle we were supposed to take wasn’t where it was meant to be. Then we had to find Peter and Aaron from the Bible School. It takes about 1 hour to Mansa. Fanny (pronounced Funny) also came with us. She is Levy’s niece and is 19 yrs old. So there were 6 of us in the car.
On our way now, the road is fairly nice but a lot of pot holes and they are fixing them. We dropped the guys off and went and did our little bits and pieces before heading for the supermarket called Shoprite. I had my first experience of the pit loo at the Mansa Mission Station!!!
We were to be home by 2:30pm as my Ladies Study starts then.
We got what we needed at Shoprite and when we got to the checkout the block of cheese didn’t have a price on it and the lady was really rude – like it was our fault. Donald said to her don’t you have someone who could check it. She said no so we said we wouldn’t have it. She then sent someone to go and get a price. She was amazingly rude! Donald said they get like that in Mansa as they see the white people (hehe me included in that) come and spend lots of money and the locals can’t. It’s not our fault we are so far from the supermarket and can only get there every now and again. Oh well time to move on....
Outside we met Hoggie Jnr (Hoggie, the caretaker’s son). He is doing a course in Mansa. We didn’t know that he wanted a ride back to Samfya. That was fine – now there are seven of us for the car, which is ok as you can actually seat 10 but keep reading!
After loading up the car with our goods to last hopefully till we leave, Donald decides that we would get some sausages, chicken and chips from the place right next door. Fanny and I decide we will wait outside. Well there was a power cut so everyone gets locked into the stores or out as the case may be! Katie came to ask what we wanted and then came and stayed out with us. There was a man there who took a liking to her. He wanted to know what her name was. We didn’t tell him of course but then he said he would like to marry her! I told him no as she was only 12 years old so he said he would wait for her. Well I got the giggles, Katie was getting freaked out, and Fanny was telling me that because I kept giggling he thought it was ok and was bragging to his friends there how he was chatting with us! As soon as the power came on Katie took off to the safety of her father! It was verrrry funny though!
Ok now we have our food and we go to pick up Aaron but the goods he needed hadn’t arrived yet, so we left him there and went to pick Peter up at the Mission. He hadn’t finished all his photocopying. By this time I told Donald to phone Levy to cancel the Ladies Study – there was no way we were going to be back on time. Ok, Peter is now in and we head off to pick up Aaron – this time his delivery was ready – nine big sacks full of chicken feed. That is fine we now put that on the top of the car! The next thing were the baby chicks. I mean real live baby chickens! A whole 120 of them. Then Francis phoned and wanted us to pick up 25kgs of flour! Those in the back seat had to nurse a box of chicks on their laps the rest of us had groceries around us and I also had the sack of flour beside me. Well by the time we got home I am covered in white flour, which Donald promptly told everyone that I was trying to become a white woman! This made everyone laugh!
The other amusing thing was that Fanny wanted to know what we put in the chicks to make them into chickens! We couldn’t understand what we meant. She did not realize that these baby chicks grew up to be adult chickens that she then killed and dressed (defeathered!) although she doesn’t eat them as she doesn’t like the taste! She also didn’t realise that the chicks came from eggs!
All in all it was a very fun day full of unexpected surprises and a marriage proposal!
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