Happy Women’s Day, one and all! (And happy birthday to my Grandmother, on what would have been her 86th birthday. Miss you!) Anyway, yes, in Zambia, there is Women’s Day, not just Mother’s Day, and it’s a national holiday, so everyone has off of school and mostly off work. T and I celebrated Women’s Day by having a very random day indeed.
In light of said festivities, we cancelled English classes and had abbreviated tutoring times today. The children read Little Red Riding Hood, while watching T and I act it out with cut out characters, and learned some vocab words with actions, as our theme for the next few weeks is childhood stories. Then, they made Women’s Day cards for their mothers. Great idea T!
After tutoring, we saw a big jumble of people on campus, so we decided to check things out. Some of the men had found a snake. This one was MUCH bigger than the tiny baby one that we saw dead yesterday. Now, I’m not afraid of snakes, but since most of the snakes here are poisonous and the men held it out on a stick to me, completely alive, and asked if I wanted any snake meat, I had to regretfully decline. And then we got to see them crush it’s skull and kill it. Very entertaining and random for 10 am.
After tutoring, D&D took us downtown to do some supply shopping. We ran into hundreds of ladies marching today to celebrate the day! So, the Great East Road (the main road in Zambia), was unsurpassable for a portion, aka, we got to take a scenic route through town and try to get to Cairo Rd some other way. It was a great way to see more of Lusaka, though! We got some delicious pizza for lunch at a 2-for-1 deal, and after a small hitch where a guy parked in half the parking lot, we were on our way back to campus.
The afternoon may or may not have consisted of the following occurrences: watching water filtration apparatuses being built; using my gruff voice to play the Big Bad Wolf; making and delivering Women’s Day cards to Mrs. D&D and Mrs. A; visiting Pastor K and his family at his house; getting an invite to visit his daughter at Unza (University of Zambia); being told by a Zambian what a “moving picture television” is; and having a chicken come into the middle of the living room while we were chatting at the K residence, only to be chased and caught by a family member. Dinner was again delish, and after a bit of lesson planning, a walk mandated by T because she said I had too much energy left (the walk, which included some shenanigans, might I add J), and a movie were in order for the evening before hitting the hay.
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