Another relaxing day. Everyone went to church this morning, the service started at 8:30am for English, even earlier for the one in Chichewa. Jess and I didn’t go - we really needed to sleep. So we slept until 10ish and we figure we’ll go another Sunday since we have plenty of time. Jess, Angela and I walked down into town to Tasty Bites for lunch because it’s much cheaper and we’re all going broke since we can’t exchange any more money until tomorrow after our classes. It was pretty good, we got chicken and beef samosas, and a cupcake since we’d all been craving sweets. The walk back is all uphill but its great because we need the exercise. Everyone thought we’d be losing weight here but that is sooo not happening! All the food here is fried and so unhealthy, I feel like a walrus. I eat a few bananas every morning instead of all the bread but lately they haven’t had any. I think I’m going to try that walk every day maybe twice just to work off some of this fried chicken.
We spent the majority of the afternoon sitting outside learning Chichewa from our interactive CD so that we could start planning our lessons. It’s a little difficult because we have to know Chichewa so the kids will understand our English translations. I think that tomorrow we’re going to talk more with the teachers and not really start planning out an actual lesson until tomorrow night to use for Tuesday. For the most part I sat around and read my book and just relaxed. It was great, and I’m reading My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult, which is amazingly addicting, I can never seem to put it down.
Today was Dr. Liz’s birthday!! Todd’s was the day we left so we decided to celebrate his as well. We had a huge dinner outside (for FREE) and it was by far the best thing I’ve had here so far. They made us chicken curry, and I had ordered it here earlier in the week but it was nothing like what we had tonight. We passed around the cards we gave then and even had a cake made (which was also fantastic). Afterwards, we gave the last of the cake to the workers and they were sooo thankful. I don’t think anyone ever gives them stuff because they were so appreciative and hesitant to even take it at first. Naomi is the bartender here and she’s great. We’ve all made great friends with her and she’s so fun. The power went out right before dinner and the music we were listening to cut off so she started dancing and singing the rest, she’s so cute.
So, a pretty uneventful day, but I still can’t believe I’m in Africa! It’s been unbelievable so far I can’t wait to see what we’ll do the rest of the time we’re here.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment