I'm heading north for the weekend to the city of Kitwe in the northern part of central Zambia. We are all going to Kitwe in order to meet with Ken, an expert on lead poisoning from Copperbelt University. Chris and I are going to interview him (we just made up a list of like 11 questions of random things) to get more information for the direction we should go with our case study. We all have to wake up at 5am (!!!!!) tomorrow morning to head to the bus station in Lusaka to hop on the 6am bus to Kitwe, a 6hr drive.
One HUGE thing in most parts of the world (except the USA) is soccer..and it is no different here in Zambia. The Zambian people have so much pride in their soccer team, as this past march they won the Africa Cup...which is a BIG deal here. Last weekend we all watched the match of Zambia vs. Sudan, and unfortunately Sudan took the victory there. All week I've been hearing about everyone's disappointment in the loss and how bad of a sign that was. Well, tomorrow is the match of Zambia vs. Ghana (if you don't remember Ghana was the country that bumped the USA out of contending for the World Cup in 2010) and we all plan to go to some type of sports bar as soon as we get to Kitwe to grab some pizza and watch the game with true Zambians. I know I'm super excited to watch it! I remember how exciting it was to be traveling through Europe during the 2010 World Cup, so I know this will be awesome!
I finally took some pictures today!!! My mom should really be proud of me :)
This is the lecture hall that I've been at all week with the medical students. All of them wear their white coats everyday to class, definitely makes me jealous!
There are bulletin boards posted throughout the hospital where pretty much all correspondence is posted, I don't think the school uses email very often so they post everything here, including all grades!
All large buildings and well-off houses are surrounded by huge fences usually with barbed wire or electric fencing at the top. However, I have noticed that some people get creative and cover the tops of their fences with broken glass from bottles!
I tried to get a picture of this woman carrying a basket on her head but I didn't want to be too obvious about it haha. It's so interesting to see how many women just walk around balancing such large items on their heads.
This is the front entrance to the Italian Orthopedic Hospital where we are living for the summer.
This is the main building of the Italian Orthopedic Hospital.
Here's our house!! Look's pretty small but it's actually large from the inside!! I'll get some pictures up later of what the inside looks like.
Well, that's all I have for now. My next post will be from Kitwe!
Jenn
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