We survived :)

One week of class: completed! We survived! The real scary thing is, Nancy Winters left Manow today and Marty and I are officially on our own teaching. Ah! We will do it. We can do it! We are officially independent, too because we cooked our own home cooked meal. Rice and eggs together really are good with onions, peppers, tomatoes, and a local green called mchicha. Rice makes it seem creamy. I made a salad from Chinese cabbage and it was awful! You’re supposed to cook it and I didn’t realize. Marty was so kind and even had seconds…I thanked him!

One of the students is very helpful. He can’t say much in English, pretty short and looks about 13 but I think he’s 17. He carries our teacher things after class every day. Teacher’s pet? Ya but we’ll take it. :) I just wish I could talk to him more. Hopefully that’ll change when we teach him more English and I a little Kiswahili! Ha ha.

Tomorrow is Saturday! We sleep in an hour, go to Lwangwa market for two kilos of meat, then tomatoes, cabbage, bananas, carrots and whatever else we may be lucky to spot. We don’t get apples. :( In Tukuyu, two hours away, we do and they’re soo good. Cucumbers, apples, carrots, and avocadoes are so good here. Carrots and cucumbers seem sweeter here. Bananas, I must admit, aren’t what I expected. I think I just don’t love bananas.

Then tables from school to church, visit Macame at 3pm, then pick up two loaves of bread at Mwasamwajes at 4:30pm. So glad I have bread. Here are the staples out here: eggs, tea, bread, tomatoes, rice, beans, and mchicha.

Glad Joshua is in Manow. Marty, Joshua and I got sodas at the duka (store) for 1500 shillings for three. So about 40 cents a bottle. Glass bottles are recycled til they’re scratched and worn white. It’s really cool.