Drew's African Odyssey - Mwange Refugee Camp, Zambia

Finally got the engine troubles fixed and we made it to the capital of the northern province, Kasama. This is a pretty big city where we can have some more of our engine troubles fixed. Seems our driver knows quite a few people here so we took our truck to his brother in law's shop where we had our injector pump mounted properly and our brake cylinders fixed.

We’ve been having crazy hot weather as of late. In the day it gets up to at least +40. I don’t know which I will hate more, the hot weather of Lusaka or the constant rains of Mporokoso. It’s quite eerie because you can see lightning constantly striking the northern horizon, exactly the spot where I will spend the next year. Luckily, the rains are supposed to stop in Mid April, so Ill be dry soon enough.

We’ve been staying at a guest house in Kasama called Kings. It’s actually quite nice, though the mosquitoes are terrible. I have to really watch out for malaria. The disease plagues these parts of Zambia. Our driver has recently contracted malaria, though most Zambians function daily with the disease. Just gotta cross my fingers and keep taking my medication.

We stopped in for dinner at the house of the Peace Corps here in Kasama. There are about 130 American Peace Corps volunteers in Zambia, running fish, agriculture and life skill projects mostly in rural areas – a crazy bunch!! But it was great to learn about Zambia from them as most have been here for at least a year.

Posted by: Drew Gardiner / 2:31 PM