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Published: July 27th 2005
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Can't beat $0.40 for that professional look. Yes yes y’all,
Good newz, I’m in the capital city of Lusaka this afternoon and they actually have intenet access here without a phone wire going into the bback of the comp which means some pics are up, booyaa
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The past two weeks have been reminiscent of university as I’ve taken a couple of road trips. I hit a friends farm that is 15 km outside of town. We rode bikes like it was grade five and my bike fell apart faster than a… well… a Chinese bicycle. It was a one speeder with a broken seat, pedal, and crooked tire but at least it had heart and breaks… well, the breaks actually broke too half way there. It was a brutal but hilarious ride because it was really hilly dirt roads with lots of loose sand and lots of hills. Hahaha, people were tryng to talk to me as I flew by but in my battle to maintaint control only obscenities were muttered. I wish I had it on camera… it reminded me of tha Nike commercial where the guy is chasing the hotdog stand… I wish I had a lake. And I thought the stumble home from Q’s
Just a lil off the top....
Can't beat $0.40 for that professional look. was rough but after that ride I think . The weekend was great but my friends garden burned down… yeah… people here like to burn their fields for weeds. Sounds like a deep thought by Jack Handy, I know, but farmers would rather burn the whole field than weed or clear. My friends field happened to be beside a burning one when the wind took an unexpected turn. We were soon covered in a fog of smoke and if I wasn’t laughing so hard, I thn I would haave choked to death. The ride back was pretty funny too because I hadn’t realized the way there was all down hill.
I returned home to find that one of the two girls living with us (Christable, see pics) moved about 200 km’s away. I was pretty upset as you can imagine. I mean, you really get used to having these people around as family and then poof. Sure, it means there’s an extra portion at dinner but we’re really going to miss that extra hand in the kitchen, HELLO!
Later on in the week Allison, the other OV here, and I visited another friends farm. I have a pic of
Lock up.
This is from an orphanage we visited for a day... guess who's got the key? Ada and I up on the page and she’s a keeper. Those two boys in the tub are her two sons and without getting into it, they’re as cute as they look. Ada’s son, Chisomo, was telling me about how he almost was falsely arrested for stealing to cows. Luckyily they got the right guy and he is now serving a SEVEN YEAR SENTENCE!! WOW, holy cow is right. They cooked up a storm and so naturally I felt right at home. They cooked up a duck for us one night and it was money. The next day Chisomo walked in with three dead mice. I thought he was just assuring me that there would be no more noise tonight but apparently they are a delicacy here and not wanting to be rude or end my 23 year streak of never refusing any food.,… I had two. Haha, pretty good minus the hair.
Finally,t he last raod trip was with another two college students working on agriculture degrees. These guzy were true bachelors as they, and I kid you not, did not have ONE single piece of furniture in their house. I’m calling half poverty but half laziness. Mind
The ladies, the ladies
Me'n a couple of my wives you, we spent the whole night at the bar so I guesss they don’t realy need it if theyr’e never there right? The local lucky here is, well, it’s absolutely brutal. The best description I can give is water mixed with sour sour milk mixed with lots and lots of pulp or curdles. It was 5% plus or minus 2% (the breweries aren’t exact sciences yet here). Two of the guyz got so gunned that they literally fell off their charis. The first guy had a revelation from God and was visited by the Spirit (so he says) and the second guy was so cooked that he hoenzslty coulnd’t figure out how to erect his chair again so he just wandered around till he could find one that was already standing for him. I spent most of the night arguing and bartering for Allison’s dowry with some guy. I got him up to about $150 until I had to break the newz that it would actually be Allison’s decision and not mine, he was not impressed nor did he believe that is the way it actually works in Canada hahaha (believe me, I wish it wasn’t).
I came to
The Evian of Africa
This is a bore hole: they're pretty much the same as reverse double-osmosis water in Canada (or whatever it's called). Pretty expensive but deep and clean once you get'em. Lusaka this morning for the national Agricultural show. With any luck, it will be the Calgary Stampede of Zambia. Otherwise, I figure it will just be like Calgary when it isn’t Stampede. The bus ride here didn’t disappoint once again. I took the 5 AM bus just to be safe this time. I sat between two women and a man. The man puked the whole way there and u better believe I had a spew bag out ready for him quicker than you could say Garth Elgar. Maybe one of the only problems I have with Zambian women are breasts. There is absolutely nothing to be desired for here anymore. They are all over the place because everyone has a baby! U pretty much ahveto duck them when ur walking down the street there out there so often. It leaves nothing to the mystery, mystic, or challenge of it all. I think I’ve been completely desensitized. I had two women with their shrits open the whole way there and nothing. I hope your proud of yourself. Haha, anywayz, I hope veryoen back home is stella good and enjoy the heat while it lasts
Lots of laughs,
Ty
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