Mrs. Pheri, the director the World Hope Guest House where we are staying, gave me a short lesson on Zambian culture this AM which was quite interesting. In Zambia, when a woman has a child, she loses her name and becomes “mother of first name”; so I would be bana Tanya. When the first grandchild is born, she loses that name and becomes “grandmother of that child’s name”. I should now be call “banakul Kyle”, and that is my permanent name unless someone has twins which takes precedence over all the other names!
She told me that her job description includes getting to know all she can about the leader and family, so this morning, I showed her our family picture. She immediately pointed to Miranda and said she looks like Tiffany; at that point, she didn’t know they were mother and daughter. She also pointed to Malachi and said he looks like his dad. She thought Mikala and Sierra were sisters.
I (Bud) am into high finance. I am the comptroller for the group which is quite interesting. One dollar equals 4900 Zambian Kwachas. Going to the market to buy fruit and bread etc. totaled 440,000 kwaches. Earlier this morning I handed out K 1,150,000 of which 900,000 was for diesel fuel for the Toyota Land Cruisers. Talk about gas prices!! Fuel is sold by the liter and not by the gallon.
Even as we speak, Bud is going around to all the rooms to put oil (cooking oil) on all the hinges. It worked well in our room so we hope it will work in the other rooms. This after noon he used cardboard and duct tape to secure some big gaps in a couple windows.
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