So... we went camping Friday and came back Saturday night. It was at a little outreach called Mukuyo, they have a church and an orphanage there, and a South African (as in from the country of south africa, not the southern part of africa) couple have a nice little house there on the bank of the Zambezi river. It's cool. You can sit down on the lawn and play with the dogs while watching the Hippos in the water. We held a dental clinic Friday, I got to pull another tooth, but spent most of the time holding a flashlight while someone else pulled a tooth, giving meds and instructions for them, handing out toothbrushes, fanning the people pulling the teeth so they didn't sweat into the person's mouth... stuff like that. Then after that we took a walk over to the orphanage. The kids were handed a frizbee to play with the whole time (we had about 20 kids hanging around, following the white people everywhere). It was really nice.

There's nothing quite like laying in the tent at night and listening to the hippos making their strange grunting noises, monkeys plaing in the trees etc... (Don't freak out on me, we were in the missionary couple's yard, which has an electric fence around it)

Then Saturday some of us went for a walk at 6:30 around the place we were staying at. We saw some cool birds, got really muddy, saw a spot where a croc had been sitting on the bank, saw a bunch of hippo tracks (then realized they were all heading into the field we were walking towards, meaning they hadn't moved back out to the river since the night before - not to mention it was so muddy that each time we took a step we sunk down in deep), then turned around and went back. We just lounged around and visited the rest of the day, then drove back to riverside.

Today we got a tour of Riverside farms, then after lunch (which consisted of nshima - made from mealy meal which comes from maize, kinda playdough like, you use it to scoop up the other stuff-, eggplant, and cabbage) we went out to Lushomo to see where we will be living and figure out what needs to be done to get the place ready. It's probably about an hour and a half from here. Its really pretty out there! And about 15 km of the trip is a really really bad dirt road, nice four wheel drive. Anywho, there's a really nice waterfall back in there and stuff. We will be living with a Zambian family, cooking our own meals, all that.

The schedule has changed a bit now, we'll be moving out there next Sunday. Tomorrow we go shopping in Lusaka for supplies, Tuesday we do whatever Alan finds for us to do on campus, Wednesday will be a bush clinic, Thursday we will do whatever Alan tells us to do again, and Friday and Saturday are the days everyone around here is off.

So yeah, that's what's happening right now. Have a good one!