one more WEEK on Zambian soil for this season!
Apologies for such a long time of no posting! our internet connection has been plying tricks on us....The Zambian winter has started! So far it's around 50-55 in the mornings and evenings.... Okay this...
View ArticleBALTIMORE LIFE
exactly a week ago, we were landing on US soil, after a wonderfully long trip. 2 10 hr flights and a 22 hr layover in london. the long layover turned out to be a blessing. -thanks to Kathy Corbiere- we...
View ArticleONE DAY AT THE BEACH...
Sarah and Kezia were playing in the sand..Mom: Who made the sand?Kezia: (very matter of factly) JesusM: and who made the oceans?K: JesusM: and who made Kezia?K: (even more matter of factly) you.Big...
View ArticleLILIANA is here!!!
Liliana Faith Tanguay was born on 8/8/2011, 7lb12, 20 1n.It was an amazing experience, completely different than the first. Sarah applied principles from the hypnobirthing method and was able to...
View ArticleArticle 19
Hi everyone! we made it safely. the 17 hr flight with one refueling stop in Dakar Senegal, wasn't as bad as we thought it might be. A south African girl next to us 'babysat' Kezia for hours! that was a...
View Articleone week ...
today jediah is getting Liliana added to our Zambian visa. Lots of paperwork, copies, forms, pictures. I'm home, running between bedroom and toilet.... urgh. yeah.So it's been a week. We're unpacked,...
View Articlewe're dying, you know
we were waiting for a taxi to pick us up to go to church a couple days ago, when our landlady stepped out of the house as well, she had just been informed her cousin had been found dead. she was headed...
View Articlechristmas a day early.
People in Zambia seem to wonder why Christmas is on the 25th. Of course it's just a date. They also celebrate it on that day but it seems that many raise the question. Sunday is going to be a busy day,...
View ArticleFACTS abt Zambia & AIDS
The history of HIV and AIDS in Zambia [The last 2 paragrahs are shocking...](...)By the early nineties it was estimated that as many as 1 in 5 adults had been infected with HIV, leading the World...
View Articlekeep moving boys......!
so today the girls decided to go to their favorite market. Mandevu.it's a bit crazy. (african market and crazy? that's just an oximoron.)p chris dropped julie, sylvie and i off and gloup! here we are...
View Articlesafety is so relative
We live in a somewhat safe area (some areas in baltimore were way more dangerous!!! )but still, crazy pple are everywhere. Apparently the neighbors directly behind us have had the police called on them...
View ArticleWE'RE DRIVING!
yup! we have finally found a car!!! after MANY many MAAAAAAAAAANY negotiations, and almost buying a car whose odometer had been tampered with (Jediah figured it out seconds after he had signed the...
View ArticleCOPPERBELT!!
here we are in the Copperbelt of Zambia visiting the amazing Speedys. [Copperbelt Province in Zambia covers the mineral-rich Copperbelt, and farming and bush areas to the south. It was the backbone of...
View ArticleLANDMARK!
soooooooooooooo I finally SUCCESSFULLY made Nshima!! And a 'whole' nshima at that, called 'roller nshima'. It brought back so many memories. it was like being back at my parents house in Togo 15 years...
View ArticleHELLO TIME FLIES
SOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo much to write, so much to say.... abt the last month and a half.Last sunday, we picked up Sam from Uganda,whom Jediah had met in Kitwe on outreach,for our service. He is a...
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