http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Lusaka/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Zambia , Lusaka en-us Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:50:47 +0000 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:50:47 +0000 So this is it. The 'real adventure has started. Where Joachim and I have been travelling together and enjoyed the company and safety of having someone familiar around we thought it was time to split up now. After leaving Zanzibar we spent almost a week with Rams the guy we met on the ferry to Zanzibar and his family in Dar Es Salaam trying to decide where to go from there. For my part it wa http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Lusaka/Kabwata/blog-450161.html Written October 25th 2009Greetings allI am almost at the 5month mark meaning I have 3 months left. As the Zambians say ldquoAhhhhhhh Eeeshrdquo Itrsquos gone by incredibly quickly.This week has been both frustrating and interesting. The petrol shortage continues and I am no longer finding the whole thing funny now that the price of taxis has gone up. Also when I do take the bus i http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Lusaka/blog-449913.html Hi EveryoneIt is sooooooooooooo hot. Today by 9am it was already 36 C. I sure miss that great Canadian fall weather I have spoken to some of you and have heard several complaints about the cold in Canada. I am envious The heat is not so awesome in a landlocked country where no air conditioning exists and you have to pay considerable amounts of money to use hotel swimming pools. Also wearing http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Lusaka/blog-446060.html 189 219So going back a step to our train booking in Zanzibar. We had no idea how difficult it would be to organize transport from Dar es Salaam. Therersquos only one official train representative on the island and he said the train was booked up or at least the Zanzibar allocation was. When we went to Africa House for a drink we saw that there was a travel agent that worked for them an http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Lusaka/blog-444394.html Written Wednesday October 07 2009There and back againHey EveryoneSurprise I was in the UK for 10 days. No one knew I was going except for my lovely aunt ldquoSophierdquo who kindly engineered the whole thing. I went to the UK to attend my grandfatherrsquos memorial service. It was definitely time for a break from the whole Zambia scene. I was getting frustrated and needed a change for a http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Lusaka/blog-443556.html So life has come to a bit of a standstill for various reasons and I've decided to head off to see a little more of the continent for a while. I haven't really done any tourist stuff in Africa except for one weekend in Livingstone so this should be a serious and much needed change of pace for me. Certain things about living here were getting a tad too heavy for me I've never been very good with http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Lusaka/blog-438152.html Written Friday Sept 4 2009Mwalyeni bwino this is a common greeting in Bemba it means ldquoAre you eating wellrdquo And in turn you respond ldquokulila mulelyardquo which means ldquoprovided that you are eating wellrdquo Hence I hope you are all eating well I know I am. On a more interesting note I am beginning to lose my sanity a bit. Well not really but I definitely nee http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Lusaka/blog-436181.html Muli bwanji Thatrsquos Nyanja for hello and how are you I have been very skimpy on the photographs so I am trying to post more of them for everyone this may prove to be difficult because the internet connection here is just something else. I will try thoughThis past week was a lot better for me. Irsquove made a lot of progress with regards to my thesis. One of the major stakeholders cal http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Lusaka/blog-432070.html All the crazy things that have happened recently...So not too long ago a young female patient died...it was sudden. She had come into the clinic recently and been in relatively good health. She was absolutely adorable and sweet and good mannered and smart...and just a really delightful child. I took a picture of her with our social worker Fernando the last time she came. Our Clinical Officer http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Lusaka/blog-431376.html I hope everyonersquos week was much better than mineThis week was really brutal. On Tuesday I found out by email that my grandfather who lives in the U.K. passed away. Although this wasnrsquot unexpected it really took a toll on me and I wasnrsquot really able to function for the rest of the day. I felt really terrible my family had gone to the U.K. to help out and I was unable to do http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Lusaka/blog-428835.html Heya.So been back in Lusaka for just over a week now and been relatively busy. Yesterday I was doing the shopping and it was epic I think there is a national beer shortage so we can find beer hardly anywhere and Shoprite the local supermarket was closed due to strikes that keep happening at the moment. Which are really inappropriateIts been quite quiet at the camp which has been a shame beca http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Lusaka/blog-427852.html Hi EveryoneI am sickhellipagain My bladder infection came back to haunt me on Friday nighthellipand it came with a vengeance. Luckily the clinic that I went to last time is open 24 hours. I gave another urine sample and was told that my original infection never actually went away so this time round I had to be given more antibiotics AND an injection. What fun.Sohellipthis pretty much spo http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Lusaka/blog-426921.html My computer is not working so wonderfully at the moment...which is sad...makes me think it may be near death. But for the moment I will not worry about it because I am at home and have internet The joy of the situation is almost hard to believe. I have attached some photos of Mpika and Shiwa where I traveled last month. I went up to learn about a project intended to curb poaching in the North L http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Lusaka/blog-426237.html We arrived on Monday morning for our scheduled outreach only to be told they had printed the advertising posters with Wednesdayrsquos date. There were a number of people present it is a large busy clinic simply lacking in HIV care but they asked us to come back on Wednesday assuring a far greater turnout. We returned defeated to clinic but as our numbers are currently large enough to sup http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Lusaka/blog-422551.html Crossmedia on tour searching for the big mediawave http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Lusaka/blog-420437.html Zambia is beautiful and very cold. it has a lot tourist attraction and the people are very friendly. At ZamCom we have 2 resident pastors and the visiing pastor. we have been inspired by the pastors counselling. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Lusaka/Kabwata/blog-420381.html Heya...Had a really good day woke up this morning and went fishing at a crocodile farm... yes Megan fishing and I was soo successful that I managed to catch a frog haha and then we went around this reptile park and saw some MASSIVE crocs alligators and snakes pretty amazing and interesting. So then came back and have just come back from the locals football match bless they are all so enth http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Lusaka/blog-417823.html Sohellipfor once I havenrsquot written for a while not because I couldnrsquot think of anything to write but because Irsquove been too busy Hard to believe isnrsquot it that a volunteer job could capitalize so much of my time Wellhellipnot all of it was work. Yesterday I spent all day cooking Thanksgiving dinner. And then I spent all evening awkwardly playing hostess while too tir http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Lusaka/blog-417766.html Hello AllIrsquove been having a pretty interesting time. Never a dull moment in ZambiaLast week was very trying for me. Dan and I worked very hard on a funding proposal for the last few weeks. We met with our boss several times to discuss edit etc. and were quite proud of the final result. Our boss gave it the thumbs up told us he really liked it and we sent it off to our partner NGO for a http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Lusaka/blog-417123.html I have time for one more blog so thought I would tell the tale of the Chicken Caper. It is one of the pranks that the girls managed to pull off on Artie and Steven...with the help of their new friar student friends Emmanuel Manny and Augustine AND with the help of the College president Fr Mack and Fr Bonaventure the friary guardian.It involves catching the chickens and putting them in Steven a http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zambia/Lusaka/blog-415688.html