My African adventure: Weekend!!!

My first weekend in Zambia was quite much fun, actually. Saturday I walked to the shopping centre which is about 4-5km away and it takes about 1hour to walk there. The shopping centre is like a different world compared to the rest of the Lusaka. It is very modern and westernised, lots of white people there, too. After having a look around there, so many nice shops (I need someone to come shopping with meJ).

Today I wasn’t too drowsy of the painkillers, so I was socialising more with my flatmates. On the evening our flat spent time together at the balcony of our muzungu (white person in slang) palace and then we went to party together. So I have been in the bar and club in here Zambia, I had fun to watch others get drunk and make fool of themselves, but I won’t be doing that too often as it is bit boring when I can’t/want to drink and can’t dance because of my knee.

On Sunday everyone else was sleeping late, so I was in the water duty, as we get water only on certain time of the day, so we need to fill in all the water tanks and water bottles when the water is on, otherwise if we don’t do that we won’t have water to flush the toilet or water for cooking and washing. That took me couple of hours to do, but it was kind of fun. While I was on the water duty I had chance to unpack my stuff, organise and clean my room. Shower wasn’t actually too bad this morning, as you get sweaty during the night so cold shower will cool you down very nicely.

As here is nothing to do, so I decided to go to one of the markets that they have around here. So I walked there which was about 5-6km away from where we live, so it took about 1 hour to walk there. The market is at the other shopping centre on every Sunday, and there is few other markets around the town. My knee is little bit better, but when it is fully extended I can’t but much weight on it, so I am still limping but not too badly. (Polvi on menossa parempaan suuntaan, mutta suorana ollessa paljon piano sille ei voi laittaa, pistävä kipu tuntuu polven sisällä. Samanlainen kipu tuntuu kun laittaa jalkaa suoraksi, mutta se on vain yhdessä kohtaa ennen kuin jalka on ihan suora ja häviää sen jälkeen kun siitä kohtaa on päästy.) They sell the local arts, crafts, souvenirs and fabric and everything made out of it. It was quite nice to have a look around it. There is very nice stuff, so I bought a shoulder bag made out of local fabric. Now I know where and what I am going to buy for xmas presents.

I am not using my cast anymore, the bone will heal or not, but I don’t care. During the night I hit myself with the cast on my nose that hard my nose started to bleed. Having a cast in +30-35 temperature is not fun, my hand swells very much and then the cast will start to hurt if I try to move my fingers. I am going to avoid using my right hand and I will tape it up and I will use the cast when I am home, but at work in the hospital I can’t use it, won’t be very hygienic. I am also tired of explaining what have happened and I was without cast for 3 weeks before I got the cast, so I will try not to use it too much.