July 17th parted with Barbara and Mary Ellen

July 17th three of us took the same bus from the Lake back to Kasama. Barbara was the first off the bus at Kasama, another two hours Mary Ellen got off at Mpika, I got off another 3 hours after at Mkunda to wait for Jorden Bus to take me to Mansa which is about 350 KM northwest away yet.

The bus was more than an hour no show, and there came a Airtel vihecle that the driver came down to collect passsengers, when I got to the car, the 7 sitters had pilled more than 10 people and I offered myself to sit between passenger and driver on their arm rests.......2-3 hours gone by, I was start to check his gas and thinking 40 KM will be at my home, I will be there by before 5am, and another 20 KM he will have gas station to tank up at Mansa........than accident happened.....8/14/2011 Cheng

Lake Tangwenyika in Northern Province

We had long decided that Mary Ellen Reviera and Barbara Smith are to spent some time togather after the Children's Nutrition workshop, but we did not do that at the part one, so we get this idea to spend couple days all three of us togather to visit Lake Tanganyika 200 Km north from Kasama......se we did.......it was all beautiful and wonderful visiting the resorts and beaches all by three of us with the boat crew of 5.....I need to show this one sail boat's sail to those boat people at Lake Bangweulu that they can make the sail by the bag materials too.......8/14/2011 Cheng

Instead of going back to Yasakwa than come down to Kasama...

I was medically released on the Saturday before I have to go to Kasama for Children's Nutrition part 2 workshop, while I met Mary Ellen in Lusaka and she has the Peace corps vehicle to bring her back to site from her trianing of trianers for the last 2 weeks.....so I took the advantage and travel up with her on Sunday to Kasama and helping her to prepare her workshop on Wednesday and Thursday........there were great deal of info and hands on demo within groups and we have all the discussions and suggestions to one another how to prepare food for young children and how to have them react as a young children need to be.......8/14/2011 Cheng

Back at work in my villages - Katangwe.....

Ba Lloyd was so nice as usual to give my villagers garden workshop...and the villagers were so great to make us lunch.....but something not agree with me that only me got food poisoned....Dr. Harry told me to come down to Lusaka to get better so I did and that trip gave me chance to see Ba Gilly one more time for she was to go back to England with her father........Ba Shebo was nice to atten all my complians about my tummy over 2-3 days..... 8/14/2011 Cheng

Chilube Island......hope I remembered the name right.

At 5:30 only Casey and I were up, he was fishing and I was waiting for the sun rise........after breakfast Ba David came scort Maxie and I to bike around the island and he was in the suite, than he stopped at one church that we went in in the middle of their service.........turn out to be that the priest was his father and the whole family was more than half of the congregation........from the picture I just realized that I had my bike hilmet on at all times........sorry.......I was not expected all this........Maxie was more prepared that she even have a Nshitange the wrop around skirt to wear for the service........8/14/2011 Cheng

Quick stops at Chinshi and Mbalala Islands

No others has bikes and the islands were not really walking friendly to see what they have.....so we got to the last one Chilube Island right before sun sit......hurried to get the tents up and find dinner at the guest house.........it was a beautiful day......8/14/2011 Cheng

Met up with 7 other PCVs at the harbor at Samfya, which was 75 KM from the parish, and Ba Nshinawe had her collegue Ba David going back to his island - Chibuli the last one we were going.......we picked up conversations that the same officers from PLARD who are helping my farmers, have done lots of work with DOF in Lake area for them too......with Fr. Clement and Fr. Jericho's helping boat owner to push us into deeper water to have motor started, off we went with only Maxie's and mine bicycals........8/14/2011 Cheng

One over night at St. Marie's Parish with DOF in Samfya, Ba Nshinawe, I attended Fr. Clement's morning service with the students from the boarding school.....than we walked around the church yard and school and the boarding students' areas they were all warmingly welcome us and play music wonderfully.....than we had breakfast and rush out to the harbor to meet other PCVs to go on to the three islands in the Lake Bangweulu........Cheng 8/14/2011