Back from the Bush!

Well, we are back! Or I am, anyway! Blu needed to come back to Choma to get some money, and he said he could see it in my eyes that I was "done!" So me and the kids are back here and he'll be in late tonight after the soccer game or maybe early tomorrow.

It was a good week!! The weather is perfect, and staying in the house is amazing!! It's warm and I have a place to put things and it makes it so much easier!!!

Here's what got accomplished this week: the slab to the second orphan house got poured, the ring beam for the first orphan house will be poured today, our roof has all of the trusses up, the kitchen/dining/classroom facility has a foundation dug out, the female workers' house has a foundation dug out, the fence posts around our yard and almost done, and our yard is completely cleared. WOW!! You have to remember--this is Zambia. To do something like pour a slab, you have to bring about 8 loads of sand from the river, and bring about 8 loads of crushed stones (that you have previously hired someone to crush for you), to mix with the cement you had to have arranged to be transported from Choma....it's a slow process!!

I spent the week working with about 30 ladies..I learned how to hoe (using a VERY small hoe), spoke SO much Tonga, and did a lot of laughing. Oh wait, they were laughing at ME! That's a completely different post...

Enjoy the pics!
This may not be as exciting to you as it is to me, but our toilets are in!! They had to chisel through the brick--what a job!

Several guys spent the week "stumping" our yard!

Several of the women hoeing

Caedmon and Cambree helped me to wash the cement off of all the bricks around our house!

The interior of the house, all cleaned out and swept!

Some guys finishing the roof trusses

Blu actually fell off the roof this week! It was VERY scary but thankfully he is ok, just a little sore!