February 9 "Humidity, Homecookin', and Helping with Preschool"

Today we snoozed a bit longer than normal and I woke up not feeling so good. I don’t know what’s up with this school year, but I’ve been getting colds and sick more than ever this year! We FINALLY unpacked and got ourselves organized this morning, which was good because it made our house mother’s job easier when she came to clean our rooms! We spent the rest of the morning figuring out teaching schedules of who we’re teaching and when and got that ok’ed with all the higher ups! After a delicious lunch of PB&J, we headed over to observe/help out with preschool again. Now preschool has three different classes in it: baby, middle, and reception, ages 4—6, and there are 13 children of the 10 seminary students in the school. C, the teacher, wasn’t feeling well today, so SURPISE! we got to teach preschool today! Who woulda thought….I left teaching algebra to eighth graders and today I taught letters to four year olds! They’re so cute though! We found out we will be teaching them twice a week actually, so that should be fun and a new experience! After preschool, we visited with one of the D's and Pastor P a bit about more planning and that same D invited us to the movie theatre tomorrow when D&D were going. Who would have thought I would be going to a MOVIE THEATRE in Zambia? Crazy! Today was a HOT day and we went exploring a bit on the main road and more in the enclosed campus area. Well, it was about 72 degrees, but the humidity is 100% and the sun feels warmer since we’re closer to the equator. We have become QUITE familiar with some of the wildlife: tiny frogs which are half the size of your thumbnail, lizards which crawl all over the walls inside and out, and spiders that hang out on our ceilings whose bodies are two inches long and as wide as your pointer finger! The little kids wave to T and I wherever we go on campus; everyone is SO friendly here! We went to the chapel service on campus, which was conducted in Cheywa, but it was nice that the hymn that was sung had refrains so that we could join in, even though we had no idea what we were saying! Afterwards, A cooked us our first meal here, and it was DELICIOUS! Nice homecookin! The evening was pretty low-key with a walk before it got dark and more planning. Everyone goes to bed so early here!