Pictures from along the journey part1

1) Two generations, on my first visit to Chawama in September with Victor.

2) Victor singing in the studio at Chawama Youth Skills Project. My dream is to record my own song there one day. I've already started writing it. Wish I had more time!

3) Children on a truck in Chawama. Could I take some of them to Finland with me? :)

4) The town centre of Lusaka. Don't be fooled by the towers, Lusaka in general is very flat. High buildings are found only in the centre, otherwise people live and work in one-story buildings.

5) Mrs Nyirongo, me and Mariska went to a wedding in September. These guys were obviously hoping that they would have been invited, too :)
















6) And since we are muzungus, we couldn't avoid drawing attention to ourselves. Here, I suppose we are babbling something about Finnish wedding traditions.
















7) At Sable Road, we had a movie night in September. We organised the seats out in the garden and projected to movie on the wall of Joanna's house. Ate hamburgers and watched Simpsons the Movie.

8) One of my Hotel and catering students, Lumbenji, making pie dough during the Business in Action project.

9) Ladies' Club (that's the business name they chose for themselves) counting the money after the day - smiling :)

10) I took my tailor, Nancy (on the left) to visit my tailoring students in Kanyama on their entrepreneurship lesson.

11) I got my hair braided in October by lovely Mrs Priscar who has her small house at K.Y.P. premises. I was the first muzungu that she braided and she did good work! It took 4 hours and in the end, we were sitting in a dark room after sunset and a power cut while Tuukka was holding a torch to shed some light over my head.















12) In Chipata, I was invited to a Kitchen Party again. I thanked the matron for the invitation but politely refused since "I cannot leave my husband (meaning Tuukka; And no, we are not married)" and so the matron accepted that Tuukka could come to the party as well. Let me tell you, it usually never happens! Kitchen Parties are strictly women's parties. But we had a nice time and sure, there I am dancing for the screaming and clapping audience. Couldn't even hear the drums under that noise. Muzungu dancing is not to be seen every day.















13) In Chipata, on our way to the top of one of the mountains surrounding the town.

14) Still in Chipata, enjoying a fresh paw paw that we bought at the market place. Fruit in Zambia are awsome.

15) In South Luangwa National Park with the giraffe that we were looking for for two days and finally saw about hundred of them during one day.