One more week of training!

We are down to the final stretch of training now, and have our final language test on Tuesday. We had the opportunity to visit our village and see our soon to be home, if we can figure out how to upload our photos we can hopefully share them with you all. We're very excited to get to the village and start settling in and getting some projects going. Some of the first things we'll be doing include a community meeting to introduce ourselves and explain why we're there; building a fuel efficient cookstove; starting a garden and compost pile; making some community and area maps; starting a tree nursery; continuing to learn the language; and just getting more comfortable with the area and our neighbors. It will take significantly more time just to do daily chores, like fetching water and treating it (x3, boiling it, filtering, then adding chlorine), as well as cooking and washing clothes. All of these things take more time, and I'm sure we'll learn some shortcuts along the way...maybe.

Training has been great, we've learned so much information it's hard to believe it's only been two months since we've arrived. Some of the topics include; tree nurseries, agroforestry, conservation farming, income generating activities, food security, environmental education and the education system in Zambia, bemba, beekeeping, organic gardening, food preservation, and much more. We finally recieved mail the other day, THANK YOU!! It made our day. Note we have changed our mailing address to our new place in Mkushi, so please start forwarding letters there.

We will likely have weekly access to the internet, at least during the dry season (May-Nov.), so please email us and let us know how you all are doing. We miss and love you all, thanks for your support!