Day 2

So today I woke up very early. I slept fine but for my roommate was not feeling too well. She got sick from something and stayed in bed all day. We had breakfast, which was very nice. Almost like a brunch with everything you wanted even fresh fruit. After breakfast we had free time. Since Sara, my roommate was sick in bed I just unpacked, read some magazines and finally got to get on the internet. We have one free hour per roommate each day, but if you want to pay more for one hour you can pay 9,000 kwacha which is 5050 kwachas to the American dollar. But since we are student we should be about to get unlimited. Our professor is going to work something out tomorrow (Monday) with the hotel. Other than just unpacking waiting around for the next scheduled event it was sort boring. Once we finally left we went to see two of Zambians formal president’s burial sites. On the way to out next stop we saw a wedding and our professor let us get out and take pictures with the bride and groom. I guess in Zambia it is normal to invite yourself to weddings so crashing the newlywed’s pictures was normal.  We then went to the mall (mom this is the one we were looking at at home) but there we just walked around and exchanged our money. After that we went to the University of Zambia to play football, or soccer as we would call it, with some students. I am not a huge fan of soccer but it was fun talking to the local students. We later had a dinner with some of the professors and students of the University of Zambia. This was a very nice welcome. One thing I noticed how everyone was very laid back and easy going. One of the professors actually told us to just go with the flow but I am not a go with the flow type of girl. i have also learned that Zambians are casually late to a lot of things but is ok! They also are very caring, for example the front desk and cleaning service ladies kept checking on Sarah to make sure she was ok. I thought that was very nice of them. In the us I don’t think the hotel would be so involved with someone’s problems. But good news Sara is feeling better now, she thinks It was just from traveling. tomorrow will be our first day of class!!! Yippy! Glad I read the books…