Today was the end of the Easter Retreat. I “slept in” today, meaning I woke up before 6 with everyone else because of the noise level, but I stayed in bed until 7:15. Nice sleeping in, right? Showering and breakfast were first, before a closing service around the campfire led by DS. Everyone spent the remainder of the morning packing up camp and heading to Lusaka. D&D and one of the JH’s had gone on a walk over the breakfast hour and found the giraffe! So, it was my idea to find out where they saw them and go in search of them. Twenty minutes later, about 15 people joined in on my idea! We looked in the woods, off the paths, for about 30 minutes before giving up. Oh well. It was fun searching for them though! T and I walked around the game ranch and took pictures before helping the S’s load up.
We were on our way back to Lusaka by noon and stopped at the Fig Tree again for “takeaway” food (again, not a common concept in Zambia) and a milkshake! We were back by 4 and listened to Mr. D&D’s story about getting pulled over on the way home and talking his way out of a K180,000 ticket! Nice work! On our walk across campus to our guest house, we ran into several of the sem students, wives, and kids. They missed us! Mrs. A missed us, too! She cooked us our favorite—chicken and rice—to welcome us home. My favorite part of the night was when about 6 of our students came to our door (which doesn’t happen often) to welcome us back and to ask if we could have learning tomorrow! It broke my heart to tell them to wait until Wednesday! Made my day, though. J I’m so excited to see them all again!
T and I again spent our night doing laundry. Showering and feeling clean for the first time in a week and a half was really exciting too. Using the Internet was awesome, too. Lots of emails to catch up on! And it was also exciting not having to lesson plan, but to relax by watching You’ve Got Mail, for real this time. And so was sleeping in a real bed. Oh, it’s good to be home, even if it is only my home away from home!
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