DANCE FEVER!

This week has gone by fast since we were in Lusaka for Tues & Wed.
On Friday, Roy drove to Livingstone to pick up Klay Bartee & Jeff Hopper. Klay is on the board of directors for Namwianga Mission & a Harding faculty (& friend of Vann's) & Jeff is the director of Harding's International Studies Program. Both were coming to assess how the semester is going & will soon be determining the future of this program in Africa. I have no doubt they will feel things are going well & will want to continue it.

We wanted to give Jeff a little bit of Africa culture during the short time he's here (Klay comes every summer with the Zambia Medical Missions group). So - Yesterday (Saturday) we went out to Leonard, our cook's, village where his family played instruments for us. They had a banjo that they were given this summer, but the rest were homemade stringed & drum instruments. They were really quite good & Klay joined them on the harmonica. They had several children ranging from about 4 - 10 in age dancing the native dances for us. Of course, we had to join in!! If I would just do that a couple hours every day, I'd be in great shape!! Everyone had a GREAT time! Leonard is really fun & has been such a blessing to this group!

Today, Vann has gone with most of the group to a village about an hour & a half away where they were going to worship, eat lunch, & enjoy native dancing. They left at 7:45 this morning & returned at 6:15. They were exhausted. It ended up that the trip was actually 3 hours each way on a washboard, pothole ridden road so they had to just creep along the whole way.
We had already made plans to have a special dinner tonight before we knew about this big day, so I & a few students stayed to work on that. We worshipped with the George Benson group & then set to work. We're having a special Italian feast that some of the students planned for! Should be yummy! More about Vann's day & some pictures of that coming up soon.