tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894294672793517449Fri, 06 Sep 2024 00:10:38 +0000http://wsczambia.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Ashley)Blogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894294672793517449.post-5159227735228853288Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:33:00 +00002009-07-12T07:33:40.487-05:00It started getting pretty cold here at the end of June/early July. Itis still hot in the afternoon, but too cold to sit outside in themorning without a jacket, and it gets really cold at night because thehouse is not as insulated as ours at home are. I have not gotten tanat all really, which is weird because we are still really close to theequator, and it gets really hot in the afternoons. Here http://wsczambia.blogspot.com/2009/07/winter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ashley)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894294672793517449.post-6446896189149675985Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:32:00 +00002009-06-26T13:32:37.547-05:00We have done a few things since I last posted, starting with lastSaturday. We attended a youth day where the topic was marraige and howto choose the right person to spend the rest of your life with. It wasa very long day, from about 10 until about 5 I think. Let's just saythey have a very different way of thinking about dating and marraigehere. On Sunday we went to church at our home http://wsczambia.blogspot.com/2009/06/review-of-past-week.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ashley)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894294672793517449.post-5183258130131748538Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:22:00 +00002009-06-19T06:22:15.294-05:00I have a lot of quick things to update you about right now.Immigration--We went to immigration yesterday to get my stay extended,but they refused to until it was the last possible day for anextension, so we went back this morning and they gave me 30 more days.We have to go back in a couple week's for Rachael's extension, andthen I will have to go for another extension in a month. It is http://wsczambia.blogspot.com/2009/06/random-updates.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ashley)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894294672793517449.post-8642554358006546379Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:33:00 +00002009-06-16T09:37:11.516-05:00After visiting Mansa (we drove through DR Congo on the way there, but went around on the way back), we arrived at our final destination Friday night. On Saturday we met with both of our congregations in Chingola, and went to one of them for the church service Sunday morning. It was definitely different than any other service I have been to, and I didn't get a complete translation of everything. http://wsczambia.blogspot.com/2009/06/finally-in-chingola.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ashley)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894294672793517449.post-460632325543810163Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:41:00 +00002009-06-16T09:34:59.826-05:00Yesterday we flew from Jo'burg to Ndola, Zambia. The airport in Ndola was really really small (not much bigger than the Blair airport). We went through customs and got our bags, and were met by Catherine (our host for the summer). The Mathews (parents of somebody Jac and Sherri know) also met us there and took us out to dinner later that night. We went to the hotel for awhile, then had to go backhttp://wsczambia.blogspot.com/2009/06/ndola-update.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ashley)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894294672793517449.post-1408667118066267626Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:27:00 +00002009-06-06T11:27:33.767-05:00Since I didn't have much time to write Wednesday morning, I will start from when we first got to South Africa. We experienced our first difficulty at the airport right after we landed, as we couldn't get the sink to work in the bathroom. I'm pretty sure they weren't turned on, but who knows. We got through customs around 8:00, and Jac and Sherri were waiting for us. We then went http://wsczambia.blogspot.com/2009/06/south-africabotswana-update.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ashley)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894294672793517449.post-441313341863781013Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:01:00 +00002009-06-03T03:04:45.453-05:00After a very long two days of travelling, we have arrived safely in South Africa. Our flight was Delta's first ever nonstop service to Johannesburg, and they had a ribbon cutting ceremony as well as their top pilot flying us. Then, the pilots went to go check the plane (a brand new 777), and found a mechanical problem so we were delayed about 2 hours. After a 15 hour flight, we finally landed in http://wsczambia.blogspot.com/2009/06/were-here.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ashley)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894294672793517449.post-804423961352082758Fri, 29 May 2009 02:48:00 +00002009-05-28T22:20:45.748-05:00World Service Corps is a program through the Community of Christ Church for volunteers to learn from other cultures and share with the people at their assigned site. There are short term assignments in the summer, as well as long term assignments of 1 or 2 years. Why am I doing this? When I was about 11 years old, Sherri and Jac Kirkpatrick came to my church and showed me what they had been http://wsczambia.blogspot.com/2009/05/background.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ashley)1