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Monday, January 9, 2012 

Yesterday we had our first really big rain of the season.  The rains have been few and far between so far, so yesterday's was very welcome.  Zambia is starting to green up, but not the way it usually is by now in January.  Our corn is only a few inches high and everyone was starting to get concerned that the rains might not come.  But yesterday's rain was a great beginning.  It felt like we must have gotten inches of rain within minutes - certainly within the hour or so that it dumped from the heavens.  I also got inches here in the house because my windows don't close well and it was blowing so hard it was even coming in from beneath the door.  This morning is a beautiful perfect morning with a clear sky and the birds singing and the bees humming.

School started here at the Glassco Primary School yesterday also.  This first week we have only half days so the children are all here from 8 to 13 hours only.  We still are trying to hire a couple of more teachers, which means we are understaffed at this point.  The teachers are figuring out which children will go into which classes and we are taking in a few new little ones as we decide where there are openings in the houses.

Many of the children just returned to Chishawasha this past weekend. They have been home on holiday with their extended families. So everyone is looking forward to the new school year.

Good news!  Abraham Mwanza who just graduated from a local high school, after living here for the past 6 or 7 years went out and got a job at a little hardware store close to the CCHZ campus.  He has also rented a place of his own and so is becoming independent!

I will stay in touch as the electricity and my schedule allow.