Well, Brian and Wendell got to Zambia Monday night at 9 pm or so,arrived at the Zebra Lodge and went to bed about midnight. Tuesday was spent in town buying supplies, groceries, and checking in with a few people. They got to the school about dark, ran up to the house and things looked okay. They head back down to the main area where the cabins were and got settled in.
Jump ahead to today-things were not all okay at the house. The roof trusses were up; but not very well and not right. So today was spent fixing them. Tomorrow will be finishing up the fixing. MAYBE they will be able to start getting some steel up by the end of the day, but Brian wasn't sure.
The outside of the house looks great-John has planted flowers all around.
The container was locked up and all appears safe. Some of the plastic totes cracked under the weight that was on them, a few things were scoffed up, but nothing (towards the front anyway!) looked too out of sorts. The patio door made it! Brian said it hardly looked like much had moved or shifted at all! PRAISE!!
There is also a big fire today. It went around the back side of the college, but that part is out now. Both Big and Little Kaziemba were ablaze. Quite the fire for my big fire lover to watch!
Okay, so that is the overview, here's the more detailed section:
Flights and food were all good. Had a couple of boys on the first half of the long flight that wouldn't go to sleep, but otherwise all was well. South Africa has 45 movies you can choose to watch, plus video games, plus t.v. shows, and this is an overnight flight-our kids shouldn't have too many problems!
They stayed at the Zebra Lodge Monday night. They have a room that sleeps 10, so we will in all likelihood get a room there when we go, as we will be on the same flight schedule, but a different day of the week.
So Tuesday they got up, ate breakfast and went shopping-groceries for three weeks, lumber for the ceiling, fuel for the truck and backhoe, etc. Brian thinks all he will have left to buy are the doors and windows, plus a few household things we'll need (mosquito nets, charcoal cooker, etc).
Unfortunantely, while they were shopping someone stole the cooking oil off the truck. Henrich tried to run them down, but lost 'em. I guess everyone had either been in Lusaka or Chongwe on Tuesday. Brian spent most of the day riding around in the back of the truck.
He didn't sleep well that first night at the school. About 1:30 am his time he called. They had gone to bed at 9:30 and he'd been up twice already, thinking about some things the guys had already talked to him about. Wendell was sleeping well at that time!
Davis Daka, another national pastor and member of the Gospelink Zambia board has told Brian he will be coming out to help him on our house. I think he said Davis had to make a trip up north to talk to some people first, but he'd be back.
Back here, I am trying to get some things out of the way. If we are going to leave at the end of October, that month is going to be BUSY, so I am trying to get done what I can now. It's just not as easy to stay up late working on stuff when I am up two or three times with Henry. Then, it's harder to take a nap in the afternoon, because there is more I want to do-but we have school to do before I can get to them.... I can hear the violins playing, can't you??? I am working on address changes, picking international health insurance, choosing a new prayer card/bookmark, teaching school, doing a bible study, and all those other things that need to be done around the house. Thank goodness for my older girls! Cybil and Mariah are awesome helpers, and Greta is learning now too!
We have gone from 90% sure of our leave date to about 98%. One item came up that Brian needs to think about a little. I either need to book the tickets tomorrow or have them try to get the same day on hold again (then I have to figure out who can have strollers, car seats, what amount of baggage, customs in South Africa...)
Well, that's the quick update for now. There will be more of course. I may also be putting up some back posts that Brian wrote before going to Zambia in May, and one he wrote after coming back. They are good ones, and we don't want to lose them!
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