This Weekend

Today is Saturday. The wind has died down and now it is very hot. Yesterday was over 30 and today I think is much hotter! This morning we went for a boat ride on Lake Bangweulu. The lake was so still and it was really lovely with a gentle breeze that kept us at just a right temperature. We tried to buy fish off the fishermen in the boats but they only had those tiny little fish! We took a photo of one boats catch of the tiny little fish and then just as we were ready to go the man asked for money as we had taken a photo. I told him no and that if it was going to cost us I would just delete the photo. So then he said he wanted the camera! I just laughed at him and said NO!
As we were going along we saw lots of people washing clothes, dishes and themselves. We saw lots of women with no tops on and one lady also decided to wave at us. She did not mind at all that she was topless. Along further and a very skinny old man was also bathing. Lots and lots of children who would wave out and yell hello!
Thursday and Friday a transformation happened to my daughter – she had her hair done African Style! Fanny came to our place and it took 10 hours to do Katie’s hair! She now has braids with wool woven in it. It has made her hair look very thick. She can’t even get a hair tie in it and it has to be tied back with a piece of wool! Lily is still in the process of getting her hair done as I write this. She is also having beads put in her hair. Katie’s hair has taken a lot longer to do as she has a lot of it and even though Lily’s hair is longer there isn’t as much of it! It will be interesting to see how long it lasts!
Tomorrow Donald is teaching at Mwamfule CMML Church then we will all drive to Lusaka. Monday we will say our goodbyes to the Atkinsons and we will pick up boxes of bibles from the Bible Society and then drive back to Samfya. Then on Tuesday Donald heads off to Mambelema to the big conference. He will be there a couple of days.
Soon the EMI Team will be here. Donald will drive to Lusaka again to pick them up! A few days after they leave, we leave Samfya! I got it wrong before. We now only have 3 weeks left here in Samfya! The time has gone fast.
Last night we had Lucy and Elizabeth Chama here for dinner and tonight we have Fanny and Chipampe. They are the girls who live at Agnes and Levy’s home. They have been very kind to Katie.
As I am writing this the power has gone off and Donald and Paul had gone down to the lodge at the bottom of the hill to watch the All Blacks v South Africa game! Ohhhh dear their generator isn’t working, I think I can hear them all coming up the hill so I had better sign off and get the dinner on the table. They are here now and have said that they had organised with the staff at the lodge to watch the rugby game. Then all the locals came in and they changed it to the soccer. Donald and Paul complained as they had organised it earlier. They did change it back for about 15 minutes then it got turned back to the soccer. They made a deal that Donald and Paul could watch the second half of the game but guess what – the power went off so they did not get to watch the end of the game!
Hi to all our friends out there,
Gwen