Crossing Zambia
Trip Start
Jul 25, 2006
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Trip End
Sep 30, 2006
Lusaka,
Zambia
Sunday, August 6, 2006
We have to either eat on the truck or stop in the middle of nowhere. This is becuase if we stop near the people we cant eat but they come and stare at us with their hands out. Its hard to explain that you feel guilty just for eating a sandwich.On Saturday we stopped in the middle of nowhere and local children froma village cam running to us and stop about 15m away staring and waving at us. We got the football out and played with them which was really fun. The kids were all wearing filthy rags and have shaved heads. Their existence is hand to mouth and we gave them our scraps to finish. We also gave them the football, they were so excited and stood cheering and hugging us. It is hard to take in how little they have and how much we have- they must think we are so strange.
We have also discovered that the international language of a smile and a wave goes very far when in a truck across africa! Almost everyone we go past will smile and wave at us!
We have also noticed some educational signs which include-'TB can be cured,take the drugs for 6months.' Posters warning about being sold into slavery, and Next to a photo of a young girl- I am not a cure for AIDS' which was probably the most shocking although our favourite is 'A real man waits'which is used by the men on the truck as an excuse for everything!
