the maiden voyage of the uss scared cat

So I took my first drive today; not the 200 meters from my house to the shop. Nope, I drove about 4km down to the basic school to get a tray of eggs. It hasn’t rained now for about three days, so things are pretty dry, just a few mud spots. But the road is hard, uneven, bumpy, rutty…and I don’t remember which way to go sometimes (there will be an island of trees, you go left or right around it. Both sides meet up, but one is not as nice of a ride!). We made it okay-only one egg got broken on the way home. I still wouldn’t say I am overlying confident with the stick shift on the left hand thing though. But I figure some day I have to work myself up to driving alone. We are going to bring the truck into a mechanic we found, highly recommended by another mission organization. He is going to go through it and get it into tip-top shape. It’s been losing power and burning oil, but not at any type of regular interval so Brian isn’t sure what else to have checked out. Once it is running I better, I may brave it to Chongwe to get the mail!