Still alive :)

Tuukka arrived in Zambia on the 2nd October and we've spent time first in Lusaka at KYP (Tuukka gave my students lectures on entrepreneurship, learned to play drums and made music with the artists and staff members of KYP) and then, travelling around the country.

We arrived back in Lusaka today just for a pit stop, we'll head to Livingstone early tomorrow morning. We spent a few days in Chipata, a drowsy and relaxed smallish town at the eastern border, and then, a few days in the South Luangwa national park on a safari. We have some awsome pictures of, for example, lions - we were only about 3 metres away from a lion family enjoying their meal in the dark park after sunset, sitting on a roofless jeep. At the same time, a few hundred metres away, there was a lion couple mating - again, in the darkness. It's quite a creepy feeling when you know that the kings of the jungle are present but cannot see or hear them.

I left some assignments for my students for the two weeks that I'm away. I haven't been totally able to stop thinking and worrying about them although I have tried my best to switch my mind into a holiday mode. I almost rushed to the school today after arriving on the bus station but managed to stop myself at the last minute. I hope they are doing ok, the computers are working properly and they still have the material for the assignments that I left in the computer class for them (all the material that I leave for them tends to disappear mysteriosly, let's hope that's not the situation now). I'm fearing that I will return into a chaos after a week... I think I need to call the students or Andrew next week just to hear how everything's going.

The Independence Day is coming closer, it's on the 24th October. There are already plenty of decorations all over Lusaka. Unfortunately we'll probably not be in Lusaka during the celebration - I don't know yet where we'll be. We might try to make our way to Siavonga at Lake Kariba after Livingstone, but we've kept our plans open on purpose.

Thank you for all the sms:s and e-mails! I'm thinking of you all the time!