Thursday, July 27, 2006
Guess what I did today!!!!
I had a shower. I mean a REAL shower. One where the water comes out of a showerhead and you can stand under it. It was exciting. Freezing cold, but so wonderful!
Monday, July 17, 2006
The Story of the Uncomfortable Chair
There was a fair amount of outcry at our ‘cruelty to cockroaches’ – so this time we decided to turn our attention to inanimate objects. Like uncomfortable wooden chairs…
We had run out of gas for our cooker, which meant that we couldn’t do anything – no cooking of veggies, no re-heating of food, no hot drinks, no toasting of stale bread, no hot water for showering. We let Julio ‘the keeper of keys’ know, but 2 days later we still hadn’t gotten a new bottle of gas.
It was late on night and I just really wanted a hot drink. So I said (to no one in particular), “We could cook over a fire on the kitchen floor, if only we had wood”. My roomie heard me and said, ”Well we can chop up one of those wooden chairs…”
NO WAY. Some villager had spent ages bending the sapling branches to make that pretty chair, we cant burn it! Well OK.
Our kitchen is practically outside, just walls of bamboo with huge open spaces for windows and there is a 30cm gap between the top of the bamboo and where the roof starts – so there is good ventilation, and our floor is just concrete.
We stacked the wood, tore up a box and lit the fire! It went up beautifully! We had kept the legs and seat of the chair so we put a pot of water on the seat and it boiled really quickly.
YAY! I had my hot chocolate and now I could go sleep!
The next morning I lit the fire again and made a cuppa and heated some sausages over the coals – I even heated water for my shower!
Finally Cassandra saw Julio and led him into the kitchen to see our fire place – needless to say we got gas an hour later!
Cass had also recently received a parcel from the States containing marshmallows!!! So one night we re-lit the fire (the wood is nearly finished now) and using sticks we roasted marshmallows over the fire! Yum!
Now I’m saving the last few wooden sticks to have a ‘braai’ (barbeque) – I bought some ‘boerewors’ (SA sausage) in Nampula – I’m excited and looking forward to it!
We had run out of gas for our cooker, which meant that we couldn’t do anything – no cooking of veggies, no re-heating of food, no hot drinks, no toasting of stale bread, no hot water for showering. We let Julio ‘the keeper of keys’ know, but 2 days later we still hadn’t gotten a new bottle of gas.
It was late on night and I just really wanted a hot drink. So I said (to no one in particular), “We could cook over a fire on the kitchen floor, if only we had wood”. My roomie heard me and said, ”Well we can chop up one of those wooden chairs…”
NO WAY. Some villager had spent ages bending the sapling branches to make that pretty chair, we cant burn it! Well OK.
Our kitchen is practically outside, just walls of bamboo with huge open spaces for windows and there is a 30cm gap between the top of the bamboo and where the roof starts – so there is good ventilation, and our floor is just concrete.
We stacked the wood, tore up a box and lit the fire! It went up beautifully! We had kept the legs and seat of the chair so we put a pot of water on the seat and it boiled really quickly.
YAY! I had my hot chocolate and now I could go sleep!
The next morning I lit the fire again and made a cuppa and heated some sausages over the coals – I even heated water for my shower!
Finally Cassandra saw Julio and led him into the kitchen to see our fire place – needless to say we got gas an hour later!
Cass had also recently received a parcel from the States containing marshmallows!!! So one night we re-lit the fire (the wood is nearly finished now) and using sticks we roasted marshmallows over the fire! Yum!
Now I’m saving the last few wooden sticks to have a ‘braai’ (barbeque) – I bought some ‘boerewors’ (SA sausage) in Nampula – I’m excited and looking forward to it!
Monday, July 10, 2006
Nampula Jesus Film Training Trip
Tuesday 27th June
It was 10pm and I was walking back from the Naval after eating some gorgeous apple pie – Just got to the driveway when I was stopped by Felito, the head of evangelism and asked if I wanted to go to Nampula the next day to attend training given by Campus Crusade for Christ on the old school projectors they want to give us. I say yes… I ask Cassandra my housemate to accompany me; she is a writer and can take her work with her.
Wednesday 28th June
I was meant to meet Felito at 11am to get the Landrover and money and then we’d be off. Finally at 2pm I get the money – they want me to buy a motorbike while I’m there. Then at 3pm we find out the car is not available now, have to wait till morning to leave. 9pm that night I get a phone call to say that I may not use the Landrover, they have a little Opel Corsa non4x4 for me to use instead. Fair enough except that the battery is bad and the papers are not really in order… but they will try and sort that in the morning – so I guess we’re not leaving at 11am then…
Thursday 29th June
The training started this morning and I am still in Pemba. To waste some time I went to the bank at 9am to cash the cheque I got, the computers are down so I wait for a what seems ages to get special permission to get the money, about US$2000. Then when I get back to the base I find that they managed to find a new battery but locked the keys in the car.
So we waited for 30mins while the spare set of keys came – at least I know that our guards make bad car thieves! Finally we get into the car and then the car wont start – 1 hour later the car is running fine and at 12:20 we are off in the little non-4x4. Barely out the gate and I hit a stone or something in our driveway and the tire starts feeling funny.
Near the airport (2km later) its finally flat. We stop and change the tire – 4 guys materialize and do it for us – we have to ‘tip’ them of course and they wont take ‘no we can do it ourselves’ for an answer. There was a huge gash on the side of the tire, I have no idea how it lasted as long as it did! The rim on the spare is a bit bent and I know that its not good. Also as they pump up the spare tire there is a sound of rushing wind. The spare got a little hole too. So back to the base we go. Its1pm now…
When we get back to the base I get a phone call and am told we are NOT allowed to drive the little green non4x4, the papers are not in order and the battery is not quite good yet. I could have told them that… BEFORE we nearly set off the trip! Then I get another phone call and I am told that we have to take a 16year old Mozambican with us… then a other phone call to say that the 4x4 they want to give us first has to go to the airport at 3pm.
I wanted to leave at 11am…. YESTERDAY!
I finally convinced my boss that taking a Mozambican schoolboy is not necessary – he doesn’t ever do any sound anyways. Besides there isn’t room at the place we were gonna stay and if we bring back a bike then there would be no room at the back either. They got another car for the airport run and finally we left again at 2:30. Only 28 hours later than planned!
The drive to Nampula fairly smooth – only about 5hours – I let Cass drive for a bit – it was so scary she was all over the place the first while – stuck pedantically to the left side of the road and kept honking at people and goats and bicycles and chickens that dared walk on the road – she couldn’t seem to understand that the car didn’t really have the right of way! I feel: why stay in your lane when you have all that tarmac open next to you??? I could see the hordes of people and bikes rush past real close – eventually she got the knack of straddling the middle line! I think now I know what my father felt like when he first let me drive in Mozambique on our road trip from South Africa to Pemba last year! But it was good after a while, and I could relax. She was tired after an hour so I took over again – I love driving!
We found the SIL Guest house and stopped at Shoprite to buy something to eat for supper.
Friday 30th June
I wake up at 8am and immediately called the Jesus Film People to find out what is happening and they told me that the session starts at 8am (that would be… right now). OK. I am still trying to figure out where the church is!
It’s a full on training on evangelism etc. I had only come for the technical part! So I was glad that I was actually a day late cos the previous day had only been theoretical on evangelism! The technical training went well – I am confident that I can teach it to the people back home. I had a great conversation with the leaders of the training – they are from Kenya and Zimbabwe and speak good English, actually all the training is in English translated into Portuguese! So I am happy – I am also the only white person there, but not the only girl!
I excuse myself after lunch, they are going to be doing more theory stuff, so instead I go pick Cassandra up and we go shopping for the motorbike. Find at 125cc ‘super bike’ for 32 million = approx US$1260 - we managed to barter down to 30million! = US$1181! So proud of ourselves! Then the next obstacle was to get it into our vehicle. We have a single cab Mazda 4x4 with a canopy. And the doorway aint that big!
Eventually the 4 guys that were helping us load took one of the benches out of the back of the 4x4 (it was semi broken anyways…) and dismantled the front windscreen bit of the bike and did something to the handle bars and finally an hour later it was in the back! I wonder how we’re gonna get it out again, but we’ll figure it out later. The only problem is that the lock on the backdoor doesn’t work, but I doubt that anyone will get the bike out easily! Asked the Indian guys that ran the store where the best place was to eat – hadn’t had lunch so was really hungry – gave directions and we found it – a 4* hotel in town. The prices are better than in Pemba and the food was very very very very good! Yum! Then it was back to the house – chatted to the other people staying there and then it was off the bed!
Saturday 1st July
I was told that I could be there at 9:30 as the morning was devoted to theory stuff – that was great, so I got to sleep in a bit. I tried to get the backdoor lock fixed this morning before going to class, but the Toyota dealership was shut. So I got some boxes of cheap mineral water – I’m having a bit of trouble with my water purifier at the moment…
The equipment was scheduled to arrive from Maputo at 10:30am and I offered to go pick up the stuff that was for Pemba, 2 full systems. A little while later, Alfred, the Pastor from CCC came up to me and said “I understand that you offered to drop me off at the airport now when you go fetch your equipment” OK – I don’t recall saying that, but what ever! So we hop in the car and off to the airport we go. I love the freedom of having my ‘own’ car!!!
Alfred gets checked in OK, but there is a problem with the cargo… today is the dawn of a new currency in Moçambique. Its called the Nova Familia do Metical – basically they are dropping 3 zeros – so now my weekly budget wont be 1 million mets, it will just be 1000! So anyways, because they needed to distribute all the new notes and coins they filled the plane with money and left any ‘non-essential’ cargo in Maputo! It should (meaning maybe, quite possibly not) be arriving late on Sunday night, but I have to be back in Pemba then… So I had to make plans to have it shipped up to Pemba.
I get back to the church at 2pm and its lunch time, they hadn’t covered the maintenance part yet and I really have to organize things and the shops close at 5pm and nothing is open on Sundays – So I really want to get some meat and other essentials! Steve ran thru the maintenance with me quickly while the others were having lunch, then I was off home to pick Cass up.
We get to Shoprite at 3pm – We leave loaded with goodies at 4:30! I bought (amongst other things) a cooler box and some ice bricks so that I can take some mince meat and real ‘boerewors’ home!
At Shoprite we ran into Antonio, a guy that works as a medic for the Portuguese Air Force. Cassandra had met him in Pemba! He invited us to go watch the Portugal vs England game at the Mozambican Military housing where he was staying – but we hadn’t eaten yet so declined and went to watch the game at the restaurant we were at the previous night.
I am so tried by now, this whole trip has been busy – and now I have to find out if I have to stay in Nampula for another night and hope that the equipment arrives. Felito is out of town on a weekend bush outreach so I cant ask him… instead I call our centre director, Aguinaldo and ask him what to do. YAY I can go home the next morning! We have a guy driving up from Maputo in 2 weeks and he can pick up the stuff from our base there when he comes past.
Sunday 2nd July
Finally I can sleep late! At 8:30am the phone beeps and it’s a text message from Antonio – he wants to know if we want to have breakfast with him at a café? OK! We packed quickly and by 10 we were out the door – we meet up with him at a cute sidewalk café and order sugary donuts and a latte! Mmmm delicious! Antonio’s English isn’t that great, and our Portuguese isn’t that great, but we managed to have a decent conversation – I love the fact that I am able to understand Portuguese! He is going back to Portugal in the week – and he was absolutely delighted that they were through to the semis in the World Cup.
He had a meeting at 11, so we hit the road for our drive back to Pemba.
5 hours later (we stopped for photos and I bought some furniture) we were back home in Pemba – and after we had unloaded the car and restocked the freezer I flopped down on a chair totally exhausted, glad to be back home!
It was 10pm and I was walking back from the Naval after eating some gorgeous apple pie – Just got to the driveway when I was stopped by Felito, the head of evangelism and asked if I wanted to go to Nampula the next day to attend training given by Campus Crusade for Christ on the old school projectors they want to give us. I say yes… I ask Cassandra my housemate to accompany me; she is a writer and can take her work with her.
Wednesday 28th June
I was meant to meet Felito at 11am to get the Landrover and money and then we’d be off. Finally at 2pm I get the money – they want me to buy a motorbike while I’m there. Then at 3pm we find out the car is not available now, have to wait till morning to leave. 9pm that night I get a phone call to say that I may not use the Landrover, they have a little Opel Corsa non4x4 for me to use instead. Fair enough except that the battery is bad and the papers are not really in order… but they will try and sort that in the morning – so I guess we’re not leaving at 11am then…
Thursday 29th June
The training started this morning and I am still in Pemba. To waste some time I went to the bank at 9am to cash the cheque I got, the computers are down so I wait for a what seems ages to get special permission to get the money, about US$2000. Then when I get back to the base I find that they managed to find a new battery but locked the keys in the car.
So we waited for 30mins while the spare set of keys came – at least I know that our guards make bad car thieves! Finally we get into the car and then the car wont start – 1 hour later the car is running fine and at 12:20 we are off in the little non-4x4. Barely out the gate and I hit a stone or something in our driveway and the tire starts feeling funny.
Near the airport (2km later) its finally flat. We stop and change the tire – 4 guys materialize and do it for us – we have to ‘tip’ them of course and they wont take ‘no we can do it ourselves’ for an answer. There was a huge gash on the side of the tire, I have no idea how it lasted as long as it did! The rim on the spare is a bit bent and I know that its not good. Also as they pump up the spare tire there is a sound of rushing wind. The spare got a little hole too. So back to the base we go. Its1pm now…
When we get back to the base I get a phone call and am told we are NOT allowed to drive the little green non4x4, the papers are not in order and the battery is not quite good yet. I could have told them that… BEFORE we nearly set off the trip! Then I get another phone call and I am told that we have to take a 16year old Mozambican with us… then a other phone call to say that the 4x4 they want to give us first has to go to the airport at 3pm.
I wanted to leave at 11am…. YESTERDAY!
I finally convinced my boss that taking a Mozambican schoolboy is not necessary – he doesn’t ever do any sound anyways. Besides there isn’t room at the place we were gonna stay and if we bring back a bike then there would be no room at the back either. They got another car for the airport run and finally we left again at 2:30. Only 28 hours later than planned!
The drive to Nampula fairly smooth – only about 5hours – I let Cass drive for a bit – it was so scary she was all over the place the first while – stuck pedantically to the left side of the road and kept honking at people and goats and bicycles and chickens that dared walk on the road – she couldn’t seem to understand that the car didn’t really have the right of way! I feel: why stay in your lane when you have all that tarmac open next to you??? I could see the hordes of people and bikes rush past real close – eventually she got the knack of straddling the middle line! I think now I know what my father felt like when he first let me drive in Mozambique on our road trip from South Africa to Pemba last year! But it was good after a while, and I could relax. She was tired after an hour so I took over again – I love driving!
We found the SIL Guest house and stopped at Shoprite to buy something to eat for supper.
Friday 30th June
I wake up at 8am and immediately called the Jesus Film People to find out what is happening and they told me that the session starts at 8am (that would be… right now). OK. I am still trying to figure out where the church is!
It’s a full on training on evangelism etc. I had only come for the technical part! So I was glad that I was actually a day late cos the previous day had only been theoretical on evangelism! The technical training went well – I am confident that I can teach it to the people back home. I had a great conversation with the leaders of the training – they are from Kenya and Zimbabwe and speak good English, actually all the training is in English translated into Portuguese! So I am happy – I am also the only white person there, but not the only girl!
I excuse myself after lunch, they are going to be doing more theory stuff, so instead I go pick Cassandra up and we go shopping for the motorbike. Find at 125cc ‘super bike’ for 32 million = approx US$1260 - we managed to barter down to 30million! = US$1181! So proud of ourselves! Then the next obstacle was to get it into our vehicle. We have a single cab Mazda 4x4 with a canopy. And the doorway aint that big!
Eventually the 4 guys that were helping us load took one of the benches out of the back of the 4x4 (it was semi broken anyways…) and dismantled the front windscreen bit of the bike and did something to the handle bars and finally an hour later it was in the back! I wonder how we’re gonna get it out again, but we’ll figure it out later. The only problem is that the lock on the backdoor doesn’t work, but I doubt that anyone will get the bike out easily! Asked the Indian guys that ran the store where the best place was to eat – hadn’t had lunch so was really hungry – gave directions and we found it – a 4* hotel in town. The prices are better than in Pemba and the food was very very very very good! Yum! Then it was back to the house – chatted to the other people staying there and then it was off the bed!
Saturday 1st July
I was told that I could be there at 9:30 as the morning was devoted to theory stuff – that was great, so I got to sleep in a bit. I tried to get the backdoor lock fixed this morning before going to class, but the Toyota dealership was shut. So I got some boxes of cheap mineral water – I’m having a bit of trouble with my water purifier at the moment…
The equipment was scheduled to arrive from Maputo at 10:30am and I offered to go pick up the stuff that was for Pemba, 2 full systems. A little while later, Alfred, the Pastor from CCC came up to me and said “I understand that you offered to drop me off at the airport now when you go fetch your equipment” OK – I don’t recall saying that, but what ever! So we hop in the car and off to the airport we go. I love the freedom of having my ‘own’ car!!!
Alfred gets checked in OK, but there is a problem with the cargo… today is the dawn of a new currency in Moçambique. Its called the Nova Familia do Metical – basically they are dropping 3 zeros – so now my weekly budget wont be 1 million mets, it will just be 1000! So anyways, because they needed to distribute all the new notes and coins they filled the plane with money and left any ‘non-essential’ cargo in Maputo! It should (meaning maybe, quite possibly not) be arriving late on Sunday night, but I have to be back in Pemba then… So I had to make plans to have it shipped up to Pemba.
I get back to the church at 2pm and its lunch time, they hadn’t covered the maintenance part yet and I really have to organize things and the shops close at 5pm and nothing is open on Sundays – So I really want to get some meat and other essentials! Steve ran thru the maintenance with me quickly while the others were having lunch, then I was off home to pick Cass up.
We get to Shoprite at 3pm – We leave loaded with goodies at 4:30! I bought (amongst other things) a cooler box and some ice bricks so that I can take some mince meat and real ‘boerewors’ home!
At Shoprite we ran into Antonio, a guy that works as a medic for the Portuguese Air Force. Cassandra had met him in Pemba! He invited us to go watch the Portugal vs England game at the Mozambican Military housing where he was staying – but we hadn’t eaten yet so declined and went to watch the game at the restaurant we were at the previous night.
I am so tried by now, this whole trip has been busy – and now I have to find out if I have to stay in Nampula for another night and hope that the equipment arrives. Felito is out of town on a weekend bush outreach so I cant ask him… instead I call our centre director, Aguinaldo and ask him what to do. YAY I can go home the next morning! We have a guy driving up from Maputo in 2 weeks and he can pick up the stuff from our base there when he comes past.
Sunday 2nd July
Finally I can sleep late! At 8:30am the phone beeps and it’s a text message from Antonio – he wants to know if we want to have breakfast with him at a café? OK! We packed quickly and by 10 we were out the door – we meet up with him at a cute sidewalk café and order sugary donuts and a latte! Mmmm delicious! Antonio’s English isn’t that great, and our Portuguese isn’t that great, but we managed to have a decent conversation – I love the fact that I am able to understand Portuguese! He is going back to Portugal in the week – and he was absolutely delighted that they were through to the semis in the World Cup.
He had a meeting at 11, so we hit the road for our drive back to Pemba.
5 hours later (we stopped for photos and I bought some furniture) we were back home in Pemba – and after we had unloaded the car and restocked the freezer I flopped down on a chair totally exhausted, glad to be back home!
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Cockroach and toilet story
We have a bug problem in our bathrooms, to be more specific a cockroach problem! This night there was one in the toilet bowl, and with the water shortages we didn’t have much water to just waste it on flushing it down, so instead we tried to kill it with bleach. That didn’t work so we went searching for something flammable…
we came up with a lighter gas and 3 matches.
Try 1 – There was just a small small woosh of flames in the bowl and we just laughed. Roach still alive. Think it ducked underwater or something.
Try 2 – Another small woosh but its still alive, and now we are getting desperate...
Try 3 – loads of gas and the match: there were huge flames that leap out of the bowl and then the vacuum created by the lack of oxygen caused the water to rush up to fill the space - there was a pop and the water spurted up like a fountain and splashed all over the floor. Cockroach included. But it was still alive!
Luckily there was a boy around to witness this last try and he squished the roach for us. We were screaming with laughter it was so funny. Never before have I ever done something like that but it was great.
It was myself, and my 2 house mates: Cassandra and Jessie!
Who says being a girl missionary aint fun???
we came up with a lighter gas and 3 matches.
Try 1 – There was just a small small woosh of flames in the bowl and we just laughed. Roach still alive. Think it ducked underwater or something.
Try 2 – Another small woosh but its still alive, and now we are getting desperate...
Try 3 – loads of gas and the match: there were huge flames that leap out of the bowl and then the vacuum created by the lack of oxygen caused the water to rush up to fill the space - there was a pop and the water spurted up like a fountain and splashed all over the floor. Cockroach included. But it was still alive!
Luckily there was a boy around to witness this last try and he squished the roach for us. We were screaming with laughter it was so funny. Never before have I ever done something like that but it was great.
It was myself, and my 2 house mates: Cassandra and Jessie!
Who says being a girl missionary aint fun???
FRELIMO visit to our base
FRELIMO is the current ruling party and the governor sent some very important people to visit our centre and see what we are doing as a direct result of the recent accusations against Iris Ministries. This is an update to the earlier ‘front page news’ article I wrote about.
It has been revealed that there is a RENAMO (opposition party) supporting pastor in one of our districts that has been holding anti-government meetings in the name of Iris. He had been removed from the position of district leader some time ago but still had the official ‘Iris stamp’ that he used for his own purposes. The government feels quite threatened by our ministry here seeing that we have a network of more than 3000 churches across the country and could in effect topple the balance of power should we wish to mobilize all our churches.
The RENAMO / FRELIMO struggle is an ongoing story. The civil war that ravaged Mozambique for the best part of 17 years was a north/south, RENAMO / FRELIMO struggle. This war ended in the 1980’s, but there is still a delicate line. People have been murdered over it, and last week we were chased out of a village because the messenger we had sent to say there was going to be an outreach was a fervent RENAMO supporter and FRELIMO supporting villagers didn’t like that.
I had never realized that this was such an issue, but now that the government has taken an interest in the Pemba base it has become real to me.
Heidi has had some serious problems on her hands trying to convince the government that Iris is a non-political, un-biased organization. We love everyone. We welcome anyone. And a few of our higher-ranking pastors have found it hard to accept that they cannot preach politics from the pulpit.
The FRELIMO government published an apology to the article they had written, but it was not un-conditional, it still basically warned us that we are on perilous ground and have to keep a check on all aspects of the ministry.
Right now we would appreciate your prayers for the ongoing favour in the eyes of the government and that a good relationship can be built. They were very impressed with out Primary school (grades 1 -7) and they were also given a chance to speak at our ‘International Cross-Cultural Training School’ formally known as ‘Mission School’. So all in all the visit was a success and they have been welcomed to return anytime!
It has been revealed that there is a RENAMO (opposition party) supporting pastor in one of our districts that has been holding anti-government meetings in the name of Iris. He had been removed from the position of district leader some time ago but still had the official ‘Iris stamp’ that he used for his own purposes. The government feels quite threatened by our ministry here seeing that we have a network of more than 3000 churches across the country and could in effect topple the balance of power should we wish to mobilize all our churches.
The RENAMO / FRELIMO struggle is an ongoing story. The civil war that ravaged Mozambique for the best part of 17 years was a north/south, RENAMO / FRELIMO struggle. This war ended in the 1980’s, but there is still a delicate line. People have been murdered over it, and last week we were chased out of a village because the messenger we had sent to say there was going to be an outreach was a fervent RENAMO supporter and FRELIMO supporting villagers didn’t like that.
I had never realized that this was such an issue, but now that the government has taken an interest in the Pemba base it has become real to me.
Heidi has had some serious problems on her hands trying to convince the government that Iris is a non-political, un-biased organization. We love everyone. We welcome anyone. And a few of our higher-ranking pastors have found it hard to accept that they cannot preach politics from the pulpit.
The FRELIMO government published an apology to the article they had written, but it was not un-conditional, it still basically warned us that we are on perilous ground and have to keep a check on all aspects of the ministry.
Right now we would appreciate your prayers for the ongoing favour in the eyes of the government and that a good relationship can be built. They were very impressed with out Primary school (grades 1 -7) and they were also given a chance to speak at our ‘International Cross-Cultural Training School’ formally known as ‘Mission School’. So all in all the visit was a success and they have been welcomed to return anytime!
Independence day – 25 June
Mozambique celebrated its Independence from Portugal today! We had regular church and then everyone rushed to the dining hall/kitchen for lunch.
CHICKEN!
Georgian Banov was here, a fantastic musician from Bulgaria, so we carried all the sound stuff up there and set up the band in the dining hall. It was a blast, the drums, the guitars and the djembes. We had kids dancing in front with their coke bottles.
The Mission School students served everyone, and when I say everyone I mean everyone – Sunday lunch is open the whole community – and there were loads of people, but everyone got food – lots of food!
It was a fun day – I was thinking that if I had a camcorder then the band playing in the hall would have made the most interesting music video!
CHICKEN!
Georgian Banov was here, a fantastic musician from Bulgaria, so we carried all the sound stuff up there and set up the band in the dining hall. It was a blast, the drums, the guitars and the djembes. We had kids dancing in front with their coke bottles.
The Mission School students served everyone, and when I say everyone I mean everyone – Sunday lunch is open the whole community – and there were loads of people, but everyone got food – lots of food!
It was a fun day – I was thinking that if I had a camcorder then the band playing in the hall would have made the most interesting music video!
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