Good times with friends

After my adventures in Livingstone I headed up to Choma to meet up with my two good friends Andrea and Caitlin. I spent two days with Dre and then went to Cait's village in Chifusa (about a 2hr cantor truck ride into the bush). It was so great. I haven't seen Cait in a long time. We had the most fun, making great coffee with Bailey's (she just went home to the states in July) and even had an encounter with a green momba snake (one deadly snake). We were walking to a school about 8km from her village when Cait stopped and I had no idea why...and laying across the path was this really long thin snake. Looked harmless if you asked me, however Cait's Zambian friend immediately told us to back away as he threw a huge rock at it. Then he asked the strangest thing..."are one of you pregnant? What? Thats a weird question." Apparently green momba's don't just stay still. In the culture here, they believe a snake like this only stops in the presense of a pregnant woman. We had a good laugh at that. Then we spent the rest of the week on gender activities with her school and stayed up till 1am last night playing gin rummy. Good times. Its funny because after visiting other volunteers and their sites, I always feel renewed and I'm reminded that I'm really fortunate to be here with these amazing people. Thanks girls for a wonderful time and allowing me to recover from the craziness of Livingstone. I'm staying with a family from the states tonight in Lusaka. It will be so nice to watch American movies and eat good food. Tomorrow its back to Chipata for another crazy week of work. We have provincial meetings the end of next week and I'm hoping to have another fish transport to my farmers in Kapatamoyo.