Another blog...

It is so weird to wake up every single day and pick out clothes to wear for HOT weather. How foreign to a Canadian! And how many outfits can a person have for such weather?! It definitely takes getting used to.
Today we woke up just before 7am, which is the BEST time to take a stroll outside in the cool morning. We open all the curtains and windows to enjoy the cool for almost 2 hours, then everything gets closed up, trying to avoid the very hot sun. Oh for an air conditioner! haha.
Last night vinj and I went out on a date, we have been SOOO BUSY with the clinic construction, budgets, DTS planning, and ywam in general. Which has brought vinj and I to a ummmm ... “testy” point, both of us having little patients for either. So we thought it’s time to just take some time off together.
So we went out into Lusaka to find something new. There is a chinese hotel, its called the “The golden bridge” I am sure you can google that. Anyway, we went in to see what it looked like, so we had a drink in the lounge area, it was soooo funny, seriously there were like 10 different colours used in the lounge in the painting! And they didn’t really match in alot of spots! : ) haha. It was quite pleasant and funny, so we decided to stay for supper (we were maybe going to go out to an Indian place) So we went to the restaurant, its a classic big open room full of tacky chairs and tables with gold everywhere, the main colours were baby yellow, and purple : ) ! Our waitress took us to a private room in the back with romantic light, it was nice, except the temperature was set at 31 C! AHHH, and we couldn’t change it! So it was a bit hot. We had different/ really good food, although the spring roles were not spring rolls! And we asked for soya sauce and she had no idea what we were talking about, so we told her there is no way the chinese came and built a hotel with chinese food and didn’t bother to import soya sauce, so we told her it’s brown/black sauce. So she went and found some! Even though her manager said they didn’t have any! What a good waitress!
Vinj went to wash his hands in a sink outside the bathrooms and the waitress came to him and explained how they work, since there is no where to turn them on, she said we don’t want you to be pulling things and brake something! GEESH talk about assuming someone has no clue! So Vinj was gracious and let her show him how to use the automatic touch-less taps. He came back to our table and told me it was so weird to be the one assumed to be “uneducated”.
Anyway, we finished and went to the open Shopping/cinima/restraunt center called Arcades. We looked for movies but all of them had started already, pretty bad planning! So we walked around looking at some of the new shops, all closed of corse. We found a new club that had been opened, and I wanted to see inside, since I haven’t ever seen inside a club! haha, yes laugh at me know, I was a “good girl”. It was SOOO COOL, mainly black and red interior, but very fancy. The bouncers at the door look us up and down and said ok, it’s fine you can go in... then we met the SECOND pair of bouncers who came really close to vinj and not going to lie kinda scared me! : ) But we said “sorry sir! We just wanted to see inside!” haha. But definitely not a place YWAMers are allowed to stay and play. So we left of corse after seeing the place. And we went to this arabic place where they have the best coffee in Zambia that we have found! It is SOOO GOOD people, better then anything we tried in Canada as well. So maybe I can the the best in the world! haha.
Anyway, the have opened a very cute stylish little ice cream shop, where they make their own ice cream! And you get small scoops (much smaller then you would get in canada) but you can get a different flavor for each scoop you get. So we got a mocca Chocca, and Vanilla of corse for vinjelu, and a mint chocolate one for me, which was totally amazing. And can I say AGAIN the ice cream was the best I have ever tasted! Better then that Marble slab place in Canada! So rich and creamy, and everything ice cream should be. And to top it off a very cool chocolate design frozen on top. Very cool, we love the place and will go back.
It was a nice date.

A new development, to give you some back ground. . . before we even came to Zambia we were told there was an older lady looking for work and the ywam people were thinking we could employ her to help with house work in our house. Right away we said NO! It would be so weird having someone older then us like our mother cleaning our floors and so on. When we got here that same lady was coming every other day asking if we would employ her. Kind of harder to say no, now that she is in our face, she wanted the job obviously for the money. She is a widow, and is 61 years old. So we finally agreed with reservation in the decision. It’s been since July she worked for us, Vinj and I have been uncomfortable with it the whole time, and feel it’s just not working for us, we can do all the work she does our selves in our home, and besides that we are missionaries, we should be an example to people as well! So we talked to her about it yesterday, and she will not be working for us anymore. Vinj told her we did it to help her, so we are going to be praying about how we should help her, so we will wait and hear from God about it. There are so many people to help though, it’s just endless, and we know we need to hear from God who we are to give to and so on. There are alot of girls 15 and up not going to school, who want to go, but don’t have the money, sick people needing health care... and so on, the stories run one after another after another. We just need Jesus, we need miracles! Please pray for these, and for wisdom, compassion and resources for Vinjelu and I!

I cannot post pictures from the aircard internet from home, sorry about that, there are pictures to post for you guys.

We might be going to visit an orphanage today. Wish us many blessings!

Love you all,
Kathryn