A week full of travel!

 A week full of travel and shopping.

The plants from the first nursery stop in Livingstone

So since our last blog we first traveled to Livingstone to pick up our temporary work permits.

We headed out before light as the trip is 4+ hours south of us, our first long trip in the truck!

No line at Immigration, no wait, but no work permits as they sadly informed us that we need to travel North to the capital city of Lusaka.

Safely home from Lusaka with only minor leaf wind burn.

So we headed to a couple of markets and plant nurseries. 

By the end of a very long 14 hour day we arrived back at Jembo with a full truck carrying 75 plants or trees. 

Wednesday we taught our second Health, Agriculture, & Life class.

Thursday again before day break we headed north. 4.5 hours later we are in line at Immigration, with a paper  #46.

 

Visiting Dr. Janice at Mancha, north of Choma

Around noon we finally made it into the building [after Cory made arrangements for a couple rooms at a local guest house] , where after a short wait we are informed that we need to check at a different office. SIGH...

A short drive and we're second in line. We leave with temporary permits in hand for three months, however we're already three weeks into the time.

Bonus discovery near the Mancha mission:
 the less common African
Moringa stenopetala with mature
 seed pods. More drought resistant
than M. oleifera and similar nutrition value.

Off for shopping, here and there, arriving at the guest house in time for supper. 

The next day we head out early to a plant nursery adding to our growing collection.

A few more stops: plants, automotive supplies, food, and we head back..once again arriving after dark.

Because they couldn't/wouldn't update Fritz's visitor visa in Lusaka we headed out again on Monday, this time only 2 hours south to Choma. A few minutes at Immigration we received his last simple extension for 18 days [he already used 12 back on our first trip]. 

More shopping this time mainly for fence and poles to protect the growing nursery of trees and plants in our back yard along with a few other items.

For lunch we traveled a bit farther to Macha, new territory for us, where we met up with Dr. Janice, a Haitian GP teammate here for a month teaching visiting IWU nursing students. 

Tuesday we potted up macadamia cuttings [from the Choma Wesleyan mission station] and some elephant grass (Cory has been watching and finally saw some along the road near Lusaka). 5 students stopped by as we worked to investigate and ask questions.

Collecting macadamia cuttings at Choma
Wesleyan mission for the nursery. Cory was
successful rooting macadamia in Haiti.

Wed. we taught class, Fritz and I did some school, office work, update started and we continue to rest up. 

Thankful for a good truck. Thankful for a good team on both sides of the Atlantic.

Continuing to pray for Haiti as things worsen.