Crazy Weekend

1Matt • 23rd Feb 2009 • Uncategorized

Here I am, back in Lusaka for the work week. Where was I? Stop asking me questions, I’ll get to that! What I’ve realized about life here is that the guys that I’m with work hard and they “relax” hard as well. This definitely isn’t the way I operate and I’m going to have to find the way I fit into this lifestyle because they are going to be my close friends until September.

And so, this weekend we drive North on “Great North Road” up to a town called Mulungushi, which is apparently a town that exists because there is a huge lake there. My friends here actually bought a plot of lakeside property and we were there to continue work on the house that they are building there. When picturing it, don’t picture an American lakehouse… picture a one and a half room (no doors, but the kitchen is sectioned off) building made from stones, river sand, and cement. We hung the heavy wooden doors with the help of Chabinga (he’s the soccer coach of the local team and so his nickname is ‘Coacha’), put the glass windows into the metal frames with the help of Divilence (‘MacD’ for short. He’s I think the most outgoing Zambian I’ve met yet. He’s always trying to play jokes on me, and he made a benchpress out of metal car wheels and a metal bar he got.)

We also trimmed some trees to get a better view of the lake, cleaned up a bunch of the plastering on the outside and inside of the walls, took out all the wood framing that was initially meant to hold the cement ceiling, and painted the metal window coverings with Red Oxide… and in our down time we wakeboarded and went cliff jumping. Crazy weekend.