Project Luangwa

I arrived yesterday to Croc Valley Camp where I plan to stay for two weeks while working with students and teachers. It's a VERY relaxed camp with mainly overland campers, both large groups and smaller families. At the time of arrival, the pool was being drained because a wounded hippo had spent the past two nights in it! Evidently enough water was left in it for him to return, because this morning a pile was left. The staff is back to cleaning it today. Last night Karen Beattie, the director of Project Luangwa, and her husband Dave drove to my camp to introduce themselves. So, now I am officially beginning to volunteer. Originally I was going to help at the Victory School, which is really a nursery school housed at the Victory Church. Now it's sounds as if I will be helping a new reading program get established with a group of second graders in a near by school. They wanted to buy me a drink, but I had to pass since I have diahrea. Is this more info than you care to hear !? More to come later. Last night I needed to leave my little room to use the outside bathroom, but could not get out! There was a hippo grazing in the very small courtyard. OMG. I had an empty water bottle and there was a pair of scissors in my first aid kit to cut the top off so all went well. It was definitely a first!