Zambians are gracious people!

After exactly one month, I have a first impression to share with you.  Zambian people are kind and gracious, and very welcoming to outsiders who desire to care for their children.  We have been shown directions, helped with language, given insight into culture, and generally treated much better than we could have anticipated.  Tonight a woman actually hopped into my vehicle to show me exactly where to go to get cheaper eggs!  We had been paying 24,000KW (Zambian Kwacha) for 30 eggs, and had bargained the seller down to 22,000KW after MUCH bargaining, and then I heard that was because I was a “muzungu”, and that the better price is 16,000KW!!!  So, I was following directions, which I am usually quite good at, but am not doing a good job here with at all.  Most of the reason for this is because only the main paved roads are labeled, and only some of them have signs. The maps are even worse, just giving general “impressions”, and very few labeled roads.   The directions I was following were to turn off the main road, follow the dirt road to the end, and the egg lady would be at the last house on the left, which seemed easy enough.  Turns out it wasn’t.  So, I asked a woman walking (everyone walks, everywhere) where the egg lady lives.  She didn’t know, but offered to hop in the car and take me to a market where the eggs are 16,000KW per tray.  After showing me, she made sure I knew how to get back home again!  Boy, I am not in America anymore….and people are worried about my safety in Africa!  I think we are in good hands here.  First God’s, and then the warm-hearted Zambian people.