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This blog will be an account my life working in a Refugee camp in Northern Zambia called Mwange. For the next year, I will be working for Right to Play, a sport and development organization based out of Toronto. What follows will be a life altering experience. Stay tuned....
Thursday, March 31, 2005
March 20th
First real day off, and it was off to church… seems everyone is into church here, so off I go with our cleaning lady. She’s invited me to go to the English version of the service at the United Church of Zambia. Little do I know that I would be such a star there. Everybody is shaking my hand or looking at me weird. The minister even makes me stand up in the service and say a few words, hahaha…
The service was all right. The choir singing in Bemba was especially beautiful. When I got out of the church, half the town was waiting for the Bemba service to start, so I had to walk the plank a little bit. I think next time ill go to the Bemba session as most people's English is not very good and there’s a lot more singing in the Bemba session – live and learn I guess. The rest of the day was spent going to the market, at which all I could find to eat were tomatoes, onions, bread and sausages… then I went to visit our neighbor, Muma and then over to the only other ex-patriot in town, who is the UNHCR security officer for the refugee camp, a Canadian from Toronto. Too bad he was on the phone with his wife… Now it’s a movie and off to bed. There’s another long day in the camp tomorrow.
