Day 13 in Zambia- Friday and New Moon!

Happy to announce that I know feel perfectly at ease with my life in Lusaka, I am into my routine and making good friends at the places where I work. My family here is very supportive and I am learning a lot, especially about Indian cuisine, which I love.

On the 12th, I spent the day at Libala High School, where we had the Interact meeting and we discussed all the projects, fundraisers and competitions that we are planning to implement. Moreover, I got to catch up on all the admin work and formal writing for all the projects as well as wrote some more for my Bali Conference application, that would be amazing to attend.

Today, I also spent my day at Libala High School and loved it!!! We had a workshop on research project writing and then it all degenerated in a talent show, from singing to dancing to tattooing my arms with their pens. These kids are so talented it makes me angry that they do not have the opportunity to take arts, music or drama, because they would be brilliant at it. I cannot upload the videos as they would kill me if they ever knew I streamed them online!

Today was so much fun but quite exhausting, and the weather is getting colder as well. We finished it off by having dinner and then I painted Mrs Parmar's nails as well as mine and watched how Netherlands crush Spain in the World Cup. So I made it to my second week and tomorrow is the weekend, TGIF!!!

PS: Might be also going to Livingstone for a project for a while so might not be able to update the blog!

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