Hi everyone! Im typing on a phone so bare with me.
Right now im at my homestay in a small village called chishiku outside of chongwi. Im laying on a mattress on a hardened mud floor surrounded by a mosquito net in a thatched hut. I have a friendly wall spider named fang who keeps of company at night. I used to have a rat but he was always creeping around at night so i stole the kitty who lives around the compound and she ate him.
Africa is completly beautiful. I spend at least 2 hours a night staring at the night sky. The southern cross is suspended among great streamers of the milky way. Its humbling and words cant describe how lovely it is.
My host family is awesome. My mom speaks no english but laughs all the time and its highly infectious. I cant help but be happy. I live in a compound with 2 other trainies, michelle and jack because our family is one of 2 that speak the language ill be learning in this whole area.
Its been quite the adventure so far. We got stranded in south africa, which turned out to be an awesome bonding experience for our intake. After that we spent a few days doing paper work, shots, and admin stuff outside lusaka. We got put in our language classes. Ill be speaking lunda. It is spoken in the northwest provence of zambia, congo, angola, and nimbia. We all went on our first site visits, which was insane. When i get posted i will be way out in the bush near congo. I loved it. All the peace corps people out there are great so im pretty pumped. There is still old magic in those parts. Witches, wizards, juju and crazy stories from people. Ill post some dark juju tales ive heard in my next post.
Right now days are long. 4 hours of language in the morning followed by tech in the afternoon. Eat dinner around 6 bed at 8 or 9. Wake up at 630 for a bucket bath. I never thought africa would be so cold.
Anyway sorry for any typeos or grammer. All is well im really happy, all the people are great and friendly. You all need to visit. Miss you guys and girls.
Mad love
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Glad to hear you're doing well "big guy." I just called your Dad last week to see if they had heard from you and he directed me to your blog. I will remind you again not to go romping around in the jungle drunk, and I cannot wait until we can get out there to visit you.
ReplyDeleteHello Hunter.
ReplyDeleteYou've heard about me but we've not seen each other since you were 1. Spoke w/dad today and he let me know where you are. I missed seeing you grow up,but want very much to get to know the man you have become. Your Mom and dad are two of my favorite people on the planet. Would love to start a communication link w/you. Take good care of yourself and continue to make us all proud.
Gabriel