Contacted Rotary Club in Lusaka, finally.

Hello, Carol. Since I can't attach any of these pictures to the emails to you that I and the Project Director of Rotary Lusaka tried and both failed.....so I post this one here....

I visited their board members meeting at the President's home.
Mr. Chansa Chibeta is the president
Ms.Lontia Chinkubala is the Project Director (she is also Save The Children)

This is for now......hope you have already contacted Lontia......Happy 2011. Cheng 1/18/2011

First week in Lusaka

We have hands on lessons apart from our counterparts for they will do all the hand work for us....




The day before counterparts lessons ended and got the certification, I went with other PCVs to take our counterparts - mine is Ba Martin Kasompe out for Indian food....

PCVs has another week in Lusaka before we go back to village on Saturday.

Cheng 1/18/2011

My kids......2010 to 2011

My kids in Yasakwa, Mansa District, Luapula.

Mid October I have started the time table with 4 kids, as you see the two pairs of them the bigger ones were teaching the younger ones from the 2s. I had them practice it in my insaka every Saturday at 8:00 hour. The group had grown up the more than a dozen kids to come every Saturday.

The one with the large group of them was taken on New Year's Day - from the left of the picture - Samuel 12, Mevis 9, Licha 13, Finess 9, Kennedy 10, Eupharia 8, Lungo 8, Aaron 6, Josephine 5, Crista 5, a new kid had to get his name and age yet.....

In Oct. Samuel can do up to 4s, Kennedy 3s, Mevis did not know anything about it, Lungo said he was too young for it......now Mevis completed time table before Kennedy. Samuel and Kennedy also completed the time table. Girls were not encouraged to learn anything besides house work......and girls are really learning fast on most of anything here......even the two 5 year olds.....I told them at the beginning that they were too young....but in December they determined to come into my insaka so they are on the way to complete 2s now.....

I have all three of them teach the younger and/or newer ones....Before I came for my 2 weeks in services training, I had 2 14 year old boys to lead the time table for me and all kids complaint that the 2 boys have no cookies or candies as I had for them.....so I told the 2 boys to take records none of them will miss treats if they are really good at time table, I told all of them.....and see how my little leaders come out to be when I am home this Sunday.....need to think of something from Seattle for them too..... Cheng 1/18/2011

Happy 2011

New year's work was all bright and shin....the older farmers were able to converse in English more than the age group of 20 to 50.....that said the public school system was going down hill after the independence......Than my counterpart and I came to Lusaka for 1 week training together and PCVs stay for another week more......Cheng 1/18/2011

New Year's Eve Day.....2010

New Year's Eve Day..... I was totally drained emotional and physically.....tried to read the three books I had started but going no where....I straighten up the rooms and fish farm records a little....near noon, one kid knocked door and gave me one maize....I asked him to take me to see which field it came from.....so another 2 came along....we were on the field path that I had been biked on many times but this was first time on foot so the kids show me fish traps, grasshoppers, butterflys.....that was great thing to do just to hang around kids....and a great way to conclude my year 2010. Happy New Year to you all........Cheng 1/18/2011

the last of Ba Martin's sister's funeral

You have to read the pix from the bottom up......all computers has its own way of posting....sorry.....Cheng 1/18/2011

Ba Martin's sister's funeral 12/30/2010 - 2

While waiting the casket, the thunder rain pour down....I was sheltered to a house near by for about 20 minutes...when rain stopped small lakes everywhere and the funeral service was ready to start......

Almost the whole town of people was there....the service was nothing short as the ones in the Catholic Churches, but a real priest.....Cheng 1/18/2011