Next stop: Monze... & Carissa is still fat

Slady & his mother

Slady's home
Monze
WaterAid office
WaterAid office




Minh:
Hiho folks, We arrived to the town of Monze, within maybe 200KMs south of Lusaka, but unfortunately, a 3-4 hour bus ride down there. This is town is where Jenn worked for over 2.5 years on Water & Sanitation (Wat-San) projects. Its one of the friendliest places to greet people, especially when you are following behind a person so popular that anyone in the town can call out Jenn's name, and we would partake in a introductions/reunion with her many friends. Our arrival also gave us the chance to use the Tonga that we had been taught so far:

- Mwabuga buti = Good morning

- Mwalibia buti = Good afternoon

- Ndili Kabotu = I am Fine

- Twalumba = Thank you

As we walked around, our introductions would be as follows:

- Us: Mwabuga buti

- New person: Ndili Kabotu, Mwabuga buti

- Us: Kabotu

Visting the town had us walk to the nearby volleybally & soccer fields, seeing how important sports are to engage people... and feeling bad I only brought one set of soccer unifroms to give away. We also met Jenn's colleague, Fabie, a Botswanian, who is currently coordinating the 100% use of Wat-San principles (latrines, hand washing facilities, dish rack, bath stall, & garbage pit) in a local village. Their goal is to ensure envery household is ready by November, before the rainy season hits.

Carissa:

We don't have much time to write, sorry about this, we will update as soon as we can, and I do apologize for the lack of pictures. I promise that we have taken plenty (over 1000 + videos) but it just takes too much time to load with the unreliable internet. The kind lady here just told us that we have 2 minutes until we close sooo unfortunately I'm going to have to sign off (and I was just about to get started!) but stay posted because we should be able to update tomorrow!!!

Kwasia buti! (good evening..) :)