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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....
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
April 23rd
I had a great day today!! Spent the whole day preparing a meal for some friends to be held at my place. Down the street is the Catholic School for the blind where we buy our chickens, then to the market for tomatoes, onions, and potatoes. The real problem came when we started looking for beer. First, we had to find a crate full of empty bottles, so that we wouldn't be charged the deposit, then we had to find a guy to carry the bottles for us, as we had to haul them back and forth from the market, then we had to go to like six different bars to find enough beer. It's not like home where you can just go to the Cold Beer and Wine store = = this really was a trial for just a couple beers.
I ended up having 5 people over. My good buddies Tony and Barry, Barry's girlfriend named Mwela and his cousin named Nicolas. All these people are from Lusaka and are just up here for some months, visiting family. I ended up cooking a sort of Canadian Chicken Stir fry, which everyone really liked. Everyone puts so much salt on their food, as this is one of the only spices you can find, I didn't enjoy the chicken very much (as the guard bar-b-q'd the chicken, they added tons of salt).
