Wilhelmus vahan Nahasauwe

The Dutch ambassador hosted a really nice party in his lovely garden for Queensday! I had haring, cheese and bitterballen

new patterns

Mr. Zulu, mr. Kundigwa en mr. Ngulumbu have arrived this morning in Lusaka to meet me and we had a nice talk about the work they expect me to do, tomorrow I will drive with them to Choma! Moreover Ms Zulu has a sewing machine so I might be able to create some nice shoulderbags from the beautiful fabrics that I have seen here.

(t)raining

This week we have VSO in country training about the different aspects of Zambian Culture, development, gender issues etc. We stay on the campus of the University of Zambia which is absolutely the most green and lush campus I have ever seen, due to all the rain!

Wanna be a millionaire?

My monthly allowance is 2.2 million Kwacha, a text message to Netherlands is about 410 Kwacha and a nice chocolate bar is 11.000 Kwacha. Off course we had to do some shopping after receiving our allowance over February and March in cash..

Braaii

Today we had a bustour in Lusaka and met many other VSO's over a nice Braaii and Mosi's. (beer not the mosquitos) I managed to take this picture from the bus of one of the shanty's in Lusaka. Due to the rain large parts of these dense areas are flooded.

Away we go (screening on BA255)

Lusaka is rainy, but nice warm, it is good to be here but also still a bit strange, cars drive on the left but they use the metric system and they are testing on malaria at the expat shopping centre and next to that they are advising on micro finance. Lusaka consists of as many contradictions as any city in the world. That is what I saw on my first day here. miss u.