EXPERIENCES
As our time in Zambia is becoming short I wanted to get in some African experiences. So the last week I’ve done some.
First I wanted to have the experience of riding the bus. My friend John and I decided to take the bus from Justo Mwale to downtown. It is about 12 km (7 miles). First we walk from Justo down Munali Roar to where the tarmac is. That’s where you catch the bus. John recommended we wait for a larger bus as there is more room on them and they are cooler. It was hot waiting in at the sun for the bus but after 15 minutes we were on our way. We made rapid progress until we reached Manda Hill. We waited at the bus stop until the bus filled up. Of course we had to wait until the buses before ours filled. Then we were off. We went to the bus station downtown. Our trip was about an hour. Driving would have been half that time. The cost was 3500 kwacha, or about 80 cents. Quite a bargain.
Another experience I wanted was to get a haircut from an African Barber shop. John took me to a barber shop in Kaunda Square where he gets his hair done for 3500 kwacha. Well I went and got my ears lowered. It’s shorter than a military haircut. I won’t need another haircut until I’m back in Texas. He did charge me more than 3500 kwacha. Said my hair was very fine and quite different than African’s. We’ve only got one photo of the haircut. The camera needed new batteries and there were none to be found in the Kaunda Square market.
My last note is a little scary. Our neighbors, who have two young children, sighted a snake about a week ago. It was reported to be a large dangerous African snake. Well, the maintenance man found a snake about a week after the reported sighting. It is a spitting cobra. See the photo. We were told never approach this snake from the front. It will spit venom in your eyes. To disable them you need to hit them in the back.
Our housekeeper said we need to close our windows now. I thought that was strange, but in church during ‘Joys and Concerns’ a woman told of one of these snakes was a room in her house. This means it’s about time to go home.
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