Thursday, May 8, 2008














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Friday, May 2, 2008

I'm still in the southern province, hanging out at the Provincial house in Choma. Each province, except mine, has a house where PCV's can go hang out a couple of days a month and watch movies or work on a computer or whatever. That's where we're holed up until our sites are ready. Most everyone has been posted by now and, while hot showers, refridgerators and movies are nice, I'm ready to get moving. Hopefully we'll be out of here beginning of next week. In the mean time, a couple of things:
-If any of you are feeling ambitious enough to send me mail or whatever, the address that had been on the side of this blog is no longer in service. There's a new one, but here it is again:
Derek Warren, PCV
Care of: District Health Office
P.O. Box 25
Chongwe, Zambia
If you sent stuff to the other address it'll get to me, eventually.
Also, I was talking to a friend a few weeks ago who suggested posting prayer requests, for those of you who would be interested. Seeing as how that's a great idea, here are a few off the top of my head:
That my site would be ready soon.
That I don't have a breakdown once I get there.
That I can get through the first couple of months. This is the community entry period, which means I spend my time gettting to know my community and letting them get to know me, so I'm not working on my project yet, but moving into a village in Africa where I barely know the language and don't know anyone will make for a pretty rough couple of months.
That during these months I'll be able to get a good idea of the needs in my community and I'll be able to do my job once community entry is over.
As always, for the country of Zambia and the south African region in general.
For the election mess in Zimbabwe.
That's all I can think of right now. Love you all.