Active lifestyle

So here I am. It's February 1st and I am eating just the juiciest nectarine I have had in many days. In fact I'm having to stop typing and move away so the juice doesn't spill onto the keyboard.

Apologies friends for the gap in my blog posts but our internet has been down and I've been quite busy.. Quite busy in fact I have a few stories to tell.

So, this past week has flown by for me. At the moment we are trying to organized our office into an office; trying to get the network up and running, the internet, creating invoices and spreadsheets, alot of my work involves transferring information or data from paper to computer, phone logs and car mileage logs and of course photo copy logs... So we stay busy.
On Thursday Karen and Garth went to Lusaka for the day leaving me with the boys (Though during the day there are at least 5 people here working at any given time, some for the house and some in the office). It wasn't until after 5 when everyone goes home that me and the boys had the house to ourselves. And we had fun! Scotty loves to build things and comes to me daily with new ideas for inventions and drawings of designs for vehicles he intends to build (remind you of anyone?) So him and I worked on a little project where we to the inside parts of an old gameboy and tried to make a sort of wrist apparatus with a screen and rubber straps. But like all the other projects it fell through and we became engaged in something else. Ryan has become almost completely obsessed with Pokemon since he discovered that I in fact went through a Pokemon phase and as a result have an extensive knowledge of them. He bombards me with questions and its come to the point where anything and everything he says to me has to do with Pokemon in some way.
So what can i say, we played Pokemon together. Then we read and we had Swedish pancakes for dinner! With home made syrup. but I made too little so we spend the rest of the evening snacking. Finally the parents returned bringing all sorts of goodies from Lusaka, and in fact did a lot of bulk shopping and it was there that the juicy nectarine I mentioned earlier came from. they came with a whole box of em, and I just ate the last one. ^^

Friday was typical until 5 when Mwape came over to spend the night. That was cool and unexpected. We were having Chepotes (A dish much like tortillas) and watching a movie, Disney's "Bolt". It was funny and cute, recommend it if you have kids to watch it with. Then Mwape and I went on to have a movie night with two more blockbuster hits: I Robot and Coming to America.

Saturday was interesting. The day went in three main events, at least for me. And each one was so far from the other by the end of the day i felt as though I experienced three days in one. At first we had our first book 1 meeting. Six of us: Kawawa the facilitator, Mambwe, Mwape, Fungai, Chikonde and myself. The meeting was a good firm start. Three of the members are newly enrolled Baha'is and I've done the book once 5 years ago plus Kawawa is a great facilitator so it will be a great experience for us all.
After that we had our childrens class. So Mambwe and I walked back over to the Polluck's since the book 1 was at the Malitonga's (Mwape's house). We first went around to the houses we visited last time to remind them of the class. Then we came back and prepared our spot for the kids. There is an over hang in front of the house and it was beneath it our class would take place. So chairs were put out and cookies were baked. Shortly after the teaching material was frantically looked over and over to instill confidence, the first children arrived and two nearvous and tired teachers greeted them warmly. At first there were 6 or 7 kids and we introduced ourselves and sang. Soon the class swelled to 18 and we began. Prayers were learned, stories were told, songs were sang, cookies were eaten, games were played and 18 new friends left. it was a triumphant first class and the kids had a lot of fun MEANING the class with most definitely double by next week. Frightening to think about as that is, it is still extremely motivating and exciting and it simply means we have to teach more people and then train them to become chlidrens class teachers!
So the class ended and the next and final stage of my day commenced. I received a call from a friend of mine named Edina to meet her at the supermarket in town. I figure ok, we could go hang out in town, get something to eat, whatever. I get there and the first thing she says is I've come to take you. Next thing I know I'm on a bus to Chimanimani (A community outside of town about a 15 minute bus ride from home). And this is where I leave you with a cliff hanger because I have to get off now. But I will finish the story soon I promise! I have to go though.

Have a lovely evening :)