october 15th

i just wrote an entire entery and it got deleted! ugh! not much time so this will be short....


we are in zambia it is 110 degrees! so hot and so buggy, but so far has been amazing. zambia is very rural and completelly different from south africa. we have been having full class days and began our serviceproject a few days ago. our first day we worked at a farm helping the locals water and clear land. In the  afternoon, we helped build a wall seperating a huge room into two at a school so that there could be more than one class room. we got to work with the  kids and it  was sooo cool. The second day in the morning we visited a old folks home which was so different than it is in the US, as you can imagine. Everyone looked so  sad, and it broke my heart. The second half of the day my friend shannon and i got to teach at a local school! we had  all of the kids draw pictures of their families. the kids were all in fifth grae but ages  ranged from 10 to 17, and  i spent a good portion of classteaching the kis how to spell mom, dad, sister, and  brother. language is sucha huge barrier here. there are 76 local trabal languages spoken throughour zambia, yet  all classes are in  english,  which presnets a problem for soome kids who havent learned english. we had sucha good time interacting and teaching the  kids math, and learning about their families through their drawings. After we got back to the campsite i got really sick, i think it may be the flu...i have ben throwing up non stop! the teachers are taking really good care of me so thats good. I had to stay back from the service project today because i can't keep  water in my system, and so im really dehydrated. I have been catching up on emails, blogging and sleep though which is very good for me. Im hoping i am  better tomorrow because we raft the zambize!!! im soexcited. everything is so different here, but amazing i am learning so much. I  have gained lots of ideas about ,y sneior project and have some AMAZING photos. Being sick makes me miss my mommy a lot, but otherwise homesickness has been much better for me, epecially because i have created such great relationships with the girls here. so hard to believe we're already half way through...looking forward to seeig everyone at christmas hopefully, and to come back to snow! it will be sooo weird. the currency is kuatcha here and the conversion is so confusing!! there are 4,800 kuatcha per DOLLAR! isn't that crazy?! ill have limited internet until we go back to south africa in late november, so if i don't write until then...happy thanksgivingand halloween! eat lots of turkey and mashies for me! Love you all.