| Friday, June 9, 2006 |
| Lusaka |
Yesterday Lorna and I had to go to Lusaka to pick up Charis and Sarah, two medical students from the UK. Lusaka is the capital of Zambia, and about a 4-5 hour drive from Masaiti, where we are. We left at 5 am so we could get there by 10, when the plane was to arrive. We had a lot of fun talking on the way; I love Lorna. :)
The plane was late so we had to wait for a while at the airport, and then Lorna had an appointment to get her hair done. Lusaka is the biggest city in Zambia - there are actually two "malls" which are like shopping centers in the US.
There was a Subway - so here is a picture (just for you, Matt) where we had lunch. Walked around the little stores. Tried to exchange money. Then Lorna had some errands to run so we did a bunch of stuff, and didn't end up leaving until about 6.
I did have one adventure when I thought I was going to be stuck in the bathroom of a "petrol" station. First, it was the most disgusting excuse for a bathroom ever ... but when I got in and locked the door, I couldn't get back out. I couldn't for the life of me get the key to unlock it; it just kept turning and turning. So I gave it to one of the girls who was outside, and she managed to get me out. :) Here's a picture of the petrol (gas) station.
Anyway, we got back really late, so I am not at the clinic this morning. I'll probably have Felix bring me in a little while.
Here is one more picture of the sunset on the way home.
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posted by emily @ 3:45 AM  |
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Wow roommate...that bathroom incident must have been the worst thing ever. Seriously. I remember when I was younger we used to belong to this swimming park/beach place, but the bathrooms were outhouses. This place had been around forever and the park itself was awesome. The outhouses were there forever too though. They were seriously the nastiest, most disgusting things I've ever been in...probably in my entire life. I hope that this bathroom wasn't that bad. Public restrooms are far from fun. Poor you! :o(
I love you lots...been posting lots of scrapbook pgs online, and some of them are of us & Bee! :-D
Miss you, but it sounds like things are awesome over there (besides the bathroom ;-)).
Love you!!!!!!!
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I hate getting stuck in bathrooms...that's always scary...and icky. It sounds like you're getting to see lots of neat things, though. I love the sunset picture :)
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haha I've been in worse bathrooms when camping ... but this one was pretty gross. the toilet didn't really flush - the handle had broken off. so you had to pull the thing from the inside, except the chain was broken off too. haha.
at least I had my instant hand sanitizer ;o)
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glad to hear that someone else besides me actually got locked in a bathroom!!! LOL.
.......beautiful sunset.
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Wow roommate...that bathroom incident must have been the worst thing ever. Seriously. I remember when I was younger we used to belong to this swimming park/beach place, but the bathrooms were outhouses. This place had been around forever and the park itself was awesome. The outhouses were there forever too though. They were seriously the nastiest, most disgusting things I've ever been in...probably in my entire life. I hope that this bathroom wasn't that bad. Public restrooms are far from fun. Poor you! :o(
I love you lots...been posting lots of scrapbook pgs online, and some of them are of us & Bee! :-D
Miss you, but it sounds like things are awesome over there (besides the bathroom ;-)).
Love you!!!!!!!