| Friday, June 2, 2006 |
| the flight |
Someone asked if I had any adventures on the flight over here. It was actually very uneventful. I flew from Philly to Atlanta and then waited in the Atlanta airport for a couple hours. Then flew here. The plane was HUGE. They said the economy class holds 240 people, and it was full. Lots of young people. We stopped at Sal Island, which is a Portugese island near the Spanish mainland ... refueling and changing flight crews. So it was 8 hours there, we stayed there for an hour, and then 9 more hours to Johannesburg, South Africa. By the time we got to Sal Island, I was going crazy - usually I don't have a problem sitting still for a while, but I just did NOT want to sit there.
I sat next to a guy from NYC, who was French but grew up in Morocco ... he was going to South Africa for 4 months. We talked a lot (well, he talked ... and I nodded, since he was hard to understand). Then he slept. And I just kind of sat there. Tried to watch some movies. I wanted to watch Syriana, because Matt Damon is in it :) but it was so boring that I had to stop. Haha.
Anyway, nothing interesting happened at all! It was nice to see the sunset from the plane, and then the sunrise again. When I got to Johannesburg I had to get a ticket reissued for my flight back, and I walked around the airport a while. I had about 5 hours to kill and I was EXHAUSTED because I hadn't really slept on the plane. So I could barely keep my eyes open just sitting there.
The flight to Ndola, Zambia was kind of cool - it was a little tiny plane. They took us on a bus from the airport over to where it was loading, and you had to climb up the steps to get in. I slept the whole way to Ndola. But when we were landing, it was cool to look out and see what I was going into. There were little blips of fire and smoke here and there on the ground - because it is dry season, the grass catches on fire easily.
The airport in Ndola is tiny. Went through customs and they check your luggage. Then the people from Mushili came and brought me back to the mission.
So that's it. Nothing exciting at all ... but I think it's better that way. ;o) |
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Then I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.Then the word of the Lord came to me saying, O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
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