Wednesday

After all the mess with the Mapanza trip, our schedule changed up a little bit.Because the church here in Livingstone wasnt ready for us a day early, we tooka much needed day off yesterday and toured the famous Victoria Falls. First, wehad to travel the four hours here to Livingstone. To entertain ourselves (andthe rest of the bus!) the cool younguns in the back (Clay, Dan, Casey and I)shared some ear pieces of an ipod and sang our way thru the entire bus ride. Itwas kinda like having a really bad, off-key radio of songs where the artistsdont know all the words! :) I am pretty sure the others were so glad when wearrived! We were all looking to the falls because it is much hotter here inLivingstone than it was in our previous locations, so being misted by the fallswas a great experience. The falls were HUGE and beautiful (we have plenty ofpictures to share if this internet cafe will play nice with Clay's laptop). :)Casey wanted to bungee jump from the bridge between Zambia and Zimbabwe, but wecouldnt get close to it yesterday... perhaps when we go on Friday! After wespent some time at the Falls, we checked out some local monkeys and thenhaggled our way through the African markets. I think I was born to haggle! :)Not only will the locals haggle money, they also like to trade for things. Igot some nice items using ball point pens and hairties, while Clay lost hissocks and Casey traded hand sanitizer and granola bars! After touring andshopping we headed back to our new hotel (which is the first air-conditionedplace we have been, but not quite as nice as our last place) for dinner anddevotions. All in all, it was a nice day off! Today we spent our first day here in Livingstone. The set-up wasn't ideal and itrained a lot today but we managed to see about 235 people! We are becoming moreand more efficient everyday. There are definitely more flies here, and thechildren do not listen to instruction very well so I caught myself snapping atchildren who tried to play with the medicine table at the pharmacy (where Iworked today). By the end of the day, however, we had learned a few songs andClay has basically learned enough of the language to tell the children to stay,sit, and that we'll see them tomorrow. We will return there again tomorrow andthen will head to a small school for a half day on Friday. We will provide moreupdates then if we can! We miss you all very much and cant wait to tell you more when we return! Muchlove from all us American-Africans. :) Amanda and the team