Winter in the summer

First and foremost i would like to dedicate this post to megan maloney, who recently celebrated her twentieth birthday. Sorry i was not there for it! Secondly, i want to thank everyone for their comments. It is great to know people are thinking of me back in uncle sam land. (matt i still cant believe you have moved to manhattan ha ha). To those of you who are unfamiliar with african winters (this includes me until a month ago) they are cold! I would never dreamed i would be so chilled in a continent associated with heat. I wake up every morning to cold air where i can see my breath. On a few mornings i have lost sensation in my feet i have been so cold ! The arctic blast ensues when i ride my bike thirty minutes to training every morning. However, the scenery makes it all worthwhile as i cross steams and hills and valleys. Usually the sun is coming up at this time and it is a sight most people would pay thousands for. For the past few weeks i have been living in a small agricultural village near lusaka so i have just been getting acquainted with my host family and immediate neighbors. However this saturday we are all going to lusaka to go to a mall there and go shopping and hopefully get a small glimpse of the big city. Then i will finally be able to get on face book again. I almost forgot what it was! The other volunteers that are with me are great. They are all very passionate about being here. It has also eased some of the home sickness knowing that we are all in an unfamiliar place. To storm, the only thing that has gotten me through a few nights around the campfire has been third eye blind. Thought you would appreciate that ha. Tomorrow we have our first language test. We are all very nervous about it. I wish they accepted the american dollar here because if so i might have to slip my teacher an andrew jackson. Anyways i am off to fetch water and kill a chicken with my host parents (seriously, im not even joking) ha ha. Shalenipo mukwai!