Friday, August 10, 2007

finally here...

I finally made it safe and healthy to Lusaka. Was picked up at the airport by Tom and Nina and escorted to my host familt which is very nice and biiiig. about 10-12 paople live in the small house and share the 3 rooms. I decided to share my bed with ione of mz host brothers since I felt bad seeing someone sleeping on the kitchen floor because of me.
Everything is soooo different here compared to Europe...I"m still trying to get used to the african way of life and get settled in. The NGO I will be working with (Breakthrough Sports Academy) seems to be running-but of course the "african way", not the european. I'm still not sure what will be my tasks but there are plenty of things I can do. Next week I will probably start coaching one of the many footbal teams.....scary, since it's been ages that I've coached a team. The pitch they play on is consists more of rocks than grass and has holes big enough to swallow the ball. I will have to get used to that as well....
The only thing that bothers me a little is that it gets dark around 6 pm, and after that we are not supposed to go out by ourselfs any more since it's not safe. so the evenings can get looooong, and the soap operas on TV are not really able to change that :-)
But at least I get plenty of sleep going to bed at around 10pm every night.
Tomorrow Tom, Nina, Flo and me will go for a weekend trip to the Viktoria Falls, the biggest waterfalls in the world. I will let you know how it went...
That's all for now, hope everzone is doing good and I"d love to hear from you!
take care, Hanno

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hanno!!!!
Ich wäre sooo gern dabei! Hab viel Spass und genieße die Zeit. Bin gespannt auf erste Fotos und deinen Bericht der Falls...
Paß auf dich auf, chico rico :-)
Maike

Anonymous said...

Gordo,

ist ja mal ne super sache dieses futuristische tagebuch, an dem wir teilhaben können!!!

lass es Dir gutgehen und sauge alles um Dich herum auf!!!

hannes

Anonymous said...

hallo hanno,

gruesse aus nazca in peru, wo es natuerlich viel besser als in argentinien ist. geniess die zeit in sambia.

michael

Anonymous said...

Hey Hanno!!

Wie schön das Dein Blog nun am Start ist!! Und noch viel besser, dass Du gesund in Zambia angekommen bist!!
Genieße jeden Augenblick Deines Abenteuers!!

Als Fußball-Coach wirst Du Dich schon durchsetzen!!
Links...Rechts...Vorbei!!!

Gruß, Marek & Anneke

Anonymous said...

you're such a great man..!!!
love you
vale

nr said...

Hallo Hanno!
Wie gut, dass du in Zambia angekommen bist..irgendwie ist es doch ueberall dasselbe: Aufbruch ins Ungewisse, viel Zeit nach 18h im Dunkeln und viel Schlafen...:-)
Viele Gruesse an alle GLENNIES in Zambia!!!
Natascha
Ich warte auf Fotos von den Viktoriafaellen...

Anonymous said...

Huhu Weltenbummler!!!

Endlich bekomme ich-auch ohne mich zu melden- mal was von Dir mit;)

Hoffe du wirst eine tolle Zeit haben!-Neid von meiner Seite...grins...

Ich freu mich schon auf die ersten Bilder!

Kuß,
Lisa

Stan said...

totally agree.Long nights only make healthy long sleep in Lusaka.