the view from my hotel roomthe first day was meeting the VIPs. the US amb and US team, the zambian ministers
introducing the delegation... r to lthe permanent secretary for sport, youth, and children; praya; me; mike; minister of sport, youth and children; and susan
after a couple more meetings we were off to a candlelight vigil for people living with HIV/AIDS
(sat was world aids day, so this was the eve of world aids day)
the choir
this is ester. she told us about being married off at age 14 to a 41 year old man. how he would rape her and infected her with HIV and also other STDs. she got away from the marriage, and is now getting treatment for he disease and is back in school
the candlelight vigil
you can tell this guy was once an alter boy
my candle was more like a torchsaturday we went to the big World AIDS Day event.
there was traditional dancing
you can't really tell here, but traditional dancing is all about the booty
we had a break to get some errands done and then we were off for a gala celebrating good HIV/AIDS journalism
we waited for a long time for the awards ceremony to start.we got there at 19:00 for and event that started at 18:30
it sat empty like this for another hour and a half
the lights in the lusaka convention center
we wandered around, hoping to discover something fun.we did
this is art
art with dumpsters spewing out corn
who knew?the gala finally started
it was not as exciting and you would imagine
the annual
photo essay:boredom
after suffering through many official meetings
we decided that on our day off
we would take a safari
below is some of what we saw
the internet is shifty and i have to be up really early
i am catching a 6:am charter flight to luapula
so forgive the lack of captions
there is a warthog in the middle and the others are impala
mike and the impala
water buck
impala
cape buffalo
HOORAY GIRAFFE!i got really really really excited
can you see him?
praya and the giraffe
this is the aftermath of me chasing the girafffe.we had to leave and i LOVE to see these guys run so i asked if i could chase them
i ran like the wind in crocs
it was beautiful and super fun!
these are called zebra
this elephant started walking towards me and africa (our fearless driver) and i got scared
then the whole family arrived
the baby elephant decided it wanted to trapple over me.i would squat down and look it
he would move his head up and down
and then come really close
this little guy was 300 kgs
about 800 lbs
this is not zoomed
a beautiful end to a wonderful sunday
4 comments:
These pictures are beautiful. Be careful out there, crazy!
amazing pictures - loved the commentary as well
I can't believe how beautiful these pictures are! Good show, kimberly. Tell me that half of these shots are really postcards from the World Aids Day gift shop. Well, they should be then.
WOW! Your life is amazing. You do things I dream of doing! Good for you for REALLY living and doing.
I don't understand half the political stuff you write about, but it is all very interesting and eye & mind opening.
Sorry we didn't make it to the Bombay house while you were here, the football game didn't end until almost 10:00pm. Let me know next time you will be in town, I really would like to get together.
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