Zambia Mission Fund Canada

Mumuvwulo – Monday, December 8, 2008

Today we received a wonderful package in the mail – delivered straight to our house even! E-mail has been takwe! (nothing!) for 3 – 4 weeks now – we can’t even connect! But…mail delivery service is just as good as at home! The package was posted November 26 and today is December 8!

I am enjoying a few moments of quiet and so I’m trying to catch up on communication! I think the e-mail strategy from now until we leave in 3 weeks time will be to download e-mails onto my flash drive at the internet café in Kalomo, come home and load responses into the flash drive and then return to the Internet café and send the responses.  We’ll give it a try!

THE CALDER CLAN

                            Report from the Calders

            Dear friends and family, greetings to you all!  We are readily approaching the end of the year.  We are already talking of our lives and planning the next five months.  When we arrived back in May we, or mainly Sue, decided that it was too late to prepare for the children’s annual Student Convention, and so we would give it a miss this year.  The boys accepted that decision, but Miss Emily, who had been practicing her dance for a year, was disappointed.  Some of our home school families were also disappointed.  So together we decided to participate.  Then it was panic stations for the boys.  They independently came up with a metal work project each.  Josh also chose to make soap.  Sue told all three kids that they had do something of an academic nature, which was not pleasing to their ears.  Emily and Daniel choose Bible Bowl.  They were asked questions from several books in the Old and New Testament.  Josh chose to compete in spelling.  They were given a list 16 pages of words that we do not ordinarily use.