Safari Tomorrow!

Today was a field day for the children at Birdland School. The children were doing sack races, balancing water bottles on their heads and running races. It is wonderful to see how into it the kids got! They seemed to be having the time of their lives as they cheered their teams on and made up their own cheers. At one point an adorable two year old girl named Natasha sat down on my lap and fell asleep in my arms. So precious. We also went to a market today in Lusaka where people are selling in small handmade shacks/tables, their produce, used clothing and tiny, tiny dried fish called Kapenta. Thousands in a barrel! It was truly amazing to see this traditional Zambian market, only a few blocks away from the Birdland School. We visited a woman's house right by the market. She is the mother of two children at Birdland School. Her and her husband are refugees from Kongo who came to Zambia in escape from war. Her home was a one room house but very very cozy and well kept. This family has been living in the home for the past three months for free but now the family must come up with the hundred dollars a months rent for the upcoming deadline. It must be so uncomfortable not knowing if you can come up with the money to keep your family under a roof. The woman is so unbelievably strong and still had a beautiful smile on her face. Tomorrow we head off to the week long safari! We are going to Victoria Falls, Botswana and other safari/camp sites. This journey will include a lot of driving, but a lot of excitement as well! My hopes are to see twenty elephants stampeding through the terrain with their babies, but I guess that is pretty uncommon say Nick and Gabe. And just so you know, we will not be able to use computers during this week!
Be back next week!
Embla