Well….we had more fun dealing with the frig in the morning, but one of the D&D duo helped find a replacement right away, so not everything was spoiled, thank goodness! I was leery about drinking the long life milk after it had been opened and it hadn’t been refrigerated for about a day…..but I survived. I don’t drink it plain though, just on cereal. I can’t bring myself to drink a glass…I love my Wisconsin skim milk! Thankfully we didn’t have am tutoring so we could take care of that…..And English went well today. We read this cool African poem I found that builds on itself to help with the flow of the words. And we read children’s stories. I was fun listening to one group read the three little pigs and look at me questioningly when they got to chinny-chin-chin! After English we had a break. We ventured into using our TV for the first time. There were about 50 channels relating to religion, 2 news programs, and a soap opera thing that we couldn’t hear. News it is. And the TV also is a radio, too, so after weeding through all the religious stations again that were telling me I was going to hell, we found an interesting one which has some current American tunes, along with some British and Spanish, too. Anyway, for the retreat, the ladies were staying at a camping lodge with a cottage and chalets right outside of Lusaka. They had no room for us, but the nice men on campus said they could take us to and from the Pioneer Camp for the first two days. The four day study was on Ecclesiastes. M, the leader of the group, is an older woman and she makes the Bible study so intense. On a scale of one to ten, I’d put my Biblical understanding at a 4. The level of this retreat was definitely at an 8 or 9. I’ve never been asked to recall so many Old Testament names and dates and places and Bible passages and references from memory! But it was definitely beneficial. I sat in awe just listening to the gifts God has given to M in the areas of studying His Word. We had an intense three and a half hours of intro, followed by a delicious meal at the main house. Beef stroganoff; not as good as mom’s but close! Then we hitched a ride back. Besides learning a lot from being immersed in the Word, here are some other things I learned/observed today: 1) The booklet that our study came from was a road map with some catchy names, but the cover had an old map of Milwaukee on it. WLC wasn’t there, but I did spot Carroll College. I bet my sister would never have imagined I saw her school in Zambia! 2) In the Southern Hemisphere it’s not the man in the moon, but the rabbit in the moon. We saw it tonight as it was a full moon. 3) Roads outside of the capital are more like four wheeler tracks. I almost had to bust out the motion sickness bracelets to make it to the camp. 4) The male in the D&D duo is very adventurous. On our way home he decided to take a “short cut” which just so happened to go through a river……thankfully it was pretty dry, which is hard to believe in the wet season. It should make the game park with him next month all the more fun. J 5) On our walk to get refill Zain (Internet) time, the girl manning the little stand on the side of the road said “Hi, I would like to be your friend.” Wow, things are easy here! We made plans for next weekend with two girls our age today! 6) Beware of people drinking Shake-Shake.
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