Mongu - Day Two

It is Sunday evening.  It has been a very good and LONG day.  I awoke very stiff, acutely aware of last two-day travel adventures.  My shower was cool but cleanliness is good at any price. 

Breakfast is included in my room charge.   The dining room is probably 15 x 20 feet.  Our juice is ‘tang’, our coffee ‘instant’ , instant hot chocolate and  tea are other beverage choices.  The breakfast menu included Eggs, Sausage, Baked Beans and Toast.  The ‘butter’ consists of ¼ inch cubes of a yellow substance…I did not taste it. It looked scary.
   

We attended church this a.m.  It was a 3 hour worship time.  We were treated like dignitaries.  The choir consisted for 5 people and one drummer.  The building was rented from the department of human resources.  It was left from the British when they moved out many years ago.  It needed work but the people were warm and delightful.

We went to a new ‘fast’ food restaurant attached to the hotel.  It was clean (sort of) painted in bright bold colors.  It sold sandwiches (many new to me) a form of a hotdog, hamburgers, fish ( a real whole, head and fins still on the fish) and other curious foods. Several of us ordered hamburgers. Our young order-taker comes back after about 10 minutes to tell us they only had one hamburger!  

We eat out for each meal.  They serve one meal at a time.  I think they cook one meal at a time too.  So with a group as large as ours, it takes a very long time to complete a meal.  Another very interesting thing is that they go out and buy the ingredients after you order your food.  I guess it is comforting to know that the ingredients are fresh.

The rest of our day consisted of meetings.  One took place with the wives of the pastors at an orphanage.  The buildings are modest and old (again from the British occupation era).  I will detail in a future blog the purpose of the meeting as I am tired and there will be more to tell on this subject later.

We had another eating out experience tonight as we met with the pastors and their wives.  The power was out but the restaurant was ‘open.’ They let us know that they could serve us with a selected number of items so we stayed.  We had no other option as the power was out all over.  Candles were brought to the table.  They were tapers slipped into soft drink bottles.   The eating experience again was long but delightful.