You can't have a long-distance bus in Zambia without a preacher man!
Peace Corps put us up in a beautiful lodge for our final conferance. Good views of "wildlife," which were basically a really tame water buck and other deer-like animals.
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| The female initiation ceremony, or "kankanka" usually happens just before a wedding. A (very) young woman sits next to a girl under a chitenge cloth for hours while women dance and sing around her. The woman to the left is the matron, who teaches her all kinds of lessons about how to please a male. Finally the chitenge is lifted right before she sees her future husband, but she's not allowed to look happy at all. |
Digging a fish pond by hand with proper sloped walls and inlet/outlet is hard work!
The pupils at the Basic School show off their supplies donated by Washington Middle School. These are the ones who wrote the pen-pal letters for the World Wise Schools Project.
Gina and Grace teach mothers of underweight children developmental songs and games.
Moses shows off his bush rat that he's about to roast and enjoy!
These ladies were so excited to show off the dress they "won" for having a completed hygenic pit latrine.
At one of our Peace Corps' neighbors' village, people cross the river to get to their fields using traditional dugout canoes.
Making a sign in rural Zambia involves hand-painting from a grid.
Kids enjoying a homemade swing.
Our cat Badger mothering two newborn kittens. Unfortunately, the tan one died after a day.
Our neighbor Beatty cooking nshima for her family. It gets so hard to stir the women have to put the pot between their feet to stabilize it. They still make fun of Gina for not being able to cook nshima.
The children do a celebration dance after a new baby is born!
Gina showing our 2-day old kitten to the village kids.
The remains of the hut that Gina's friend Colleen stayed in as a Peace Corps volunteer in 2005.
PC volunteers Constantine and Travis learning how to make lard at Mujila Falls livestock workshop.
The Peace Corps volunteers each bring a village counterpart to take this knowledge back to the village.
Peace Corps volunteers and their counterparts travel on a crowded cantor truck back to their villages full of knowledge about how to raise animals.
Stores in the villages have very creative names. This by far best summarizes the Zambian Peace Corps experience.
A return trip to our favorite waterfall in Mwinilunga, Nyambwezu Falls, although we've seen at least four other noteworthy ones.
Scott pondering live overlooking the Nyambwezu Falls river basin.
Our neighbor Elena shows off traditional foods she just brought from the field to feed the family for the following day. Clockwise from top: crickets in their larval stage, cassava leaves, fermented dried cassava before it is pounded into flour, and pumpkin seeds driving with their shell.
Scott helps Ryvus and Ryford learn the complicated American game they had donated from a local NGO. It had just been sitting in their hut unused for years.
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