Doing good work

Since we don’t have internet at our home and our office is located in a Federal building which is closed on Sundays, I will now be posting my weekly blog on Mondays.

This past week saw the rains come with a vengeance. After three days of heavy downpour, Livingstone made the national news due to flooding [...]

February in Zambia

It has been a real struggle to get this week’s blog loaded. Our office internet has been down since Friday. I tried a few internet cafes but they too were hving problems. Finally, I came to Olgas Restaurant where the connection seems pretty good. I can’t do blogs on Sunday anymore since we can’t access [...]

Zambia is home for us

Our New Neighbours

Foster and Miriam and the three kids

We really like our new house which is located at #12 Lusaka Road within town. It is a short drive to our office on a new paved road all the way. We have now met three of our neighbours who are all lovely. Yesterday, Foster ( [...]

We've Shifted

It’s the rainy season but it hasn’t rained for 10 days. We thought it would rain today for sure since we had an afternoon outdoor show but it didn’t. The roads, which are mostly pot holes from the earlier rains, are now dry and dusty. The temperature is a consistent 28-30C each day.

Back Yard [...]

The Tough Get Going

It may look bad but it's Saturday afternoon and I'm still at the office

We’ve had a difficult week trying to find time for everything that needs to be done and making some tough decisions. I didn’t get much chance to take pictures and since we don’t have internet at home anymore, I have to [...]

The News Media

This past week the cast has been working on developing some new dances which we hope to incorporate into a new version of our show. We have also been doing a lot of catch-up since our return as well as house hunting. I’m pleased to say we are moving to a house tomorrow. We have [...]

Getting Settled

This post is being copied and pasted in a rush. I’m working on my lap top battery because we haven’t found our adapters which we packed last November so I have to be quick. Here it goes……

We arrived back in Zambia on Wednesday January 20th to a wonderful reception from our staff and friends. LiPAF [...]

Heading Home

As I sat trying to find an appropriate label for this posting, the words “Heading Home” came to mind. It is funny because these are more or less the same words I used when we set out on our vacation to Canada. Was coming to Canada a vacation or coming home? While in Canada for [...]

I wonder what she's thinking

We made this ’snowwoman’ between Christmas and New Years at Ryan and Sally’s house. She was obviously celebrating the world Junior hockey tournament being held in Canada. Unfortunately, Canada lost the gold medal game 6 to 5 against the USA. Canada has won the gold medal in the last 5 out of six tournaments and [...]

New Year - New Beginning

2009 was a difficult year for tourist operators in Zambia. Visitors to Victoria Falls were down as much as 50% during some peak months and lodges and resorts were sometimes empty when they would normally be full. The global economic crisis cut deep into the industry. LiPAF opened its first production at the end of [...]