We are finally getting settled and experiencing some of the culture. The boarding students will start arriving on Monday (27th of August) afternoon and classes start at 7:30 AM on Tuesday. We're both looking forward to meeting all the children as we have heard so many great things. Jason will be teaching grade 9 math, physics class, and design and technology. He will also be responsible for some dorm duties with the boys wing. Kelly will still be taking over the first and second grade class with 8 students. Below is a picture of the 1st and 2nd grade class. Kelly built a 3D tree in the corner but has not changed many other things in the class, as she is waiting to get more information from the headteacher.

As of now, we are still living in part of the guest house. We are getting excited about moving into our permanent flat, but the construction is still being finished. Tomorrow we will move to another flat for 2 weeks, until our flat is finished. We wanted to post some pictures of our flat to show what it looks like before the work is finished.





This is our living area:

















This is our kitchen. It's very small, but has a beautiful view.









There will be a wall put in here with a door to our bedroom. The bikes are not ours, but we're hoping to be able to use them (same with the other things in the room).









Today we also got the chance to experience some real Zambian culture. There were some small children playing in the center of the campus in a grassy patch. They started a small fire and tried to put it out, but it was so windy and it is very dry here that the fire just took off. Jason went running to try and find workers to help put out the fire. The workers came, but since it is Saturday there were not as many workers as there are during the week. They used buckets and dumped water and moved faster than we've ever seen the Zambians move. Praise the Lord everyone was okay and no major damage was done. Only about 2 acres of grass were burned and it stopped right before it reached the dorm building. There was also an electric box above the flames which was quite dangerous, but thank the Lord it didn't explode. Jason has a few burn marks on his foot and part of his hair was singed, but we are grateful the fire didn't destroy anything major. Burning of grassy patches is very normal here, but only when it is planned and able to be controlled. This was an unplanned burning. These are pictures of the ground after the fire was put out.










Thanks again for all your continued support. We love you all!

Finally Arrived at Amano

We have arrived at Amano Christian School just outside the city of Chingola. We enjoyed a retreat at a 'nice' hotel outside the city we flew into, Lusaka. The first picture shows an image from the retreat where we got to meet many of the other missionaries working in Africa with Liebenzell, mostly Germans.

Yesterday, we drove from the retreat to Chingola and moved into a nice flat (apartment, more or less) where we will live for the next few weeks until our permanent flat is finished attached to the dormitory. We will try to post some pictures of the campus to give a better overall sense in the next few weeks. We are enjoying ourselves and looking forward to when the other teachers and students return from their break. We also travelled into town today to do our grocery shopping and spent 424,000 kwacha. It's nice to be millionaires, haha. Actually it was a little over 100 US Dollars, and things seem to cost very similar to the same items in the states. Anyway, we are about to eat dinner with the German family whose house is adjacent to our temporary flat, so we will head out. There is a picture of the temporary flat on the campus (we are located in the farthest right-hand side of the white wing of the building (on the right) and we will plan on explaining the campus better with some more pictures in another post. (We will add a picture of one of many rather large anthills on campus, and yes it's actually an anthill.)