Zambia; Mzungu Push

All well here despite the ups an downs of life in Zambia! We went to Cowboy Cliff's School yesterday. A true 'community' school as opposed to the Government schools. Cliff is a true community leader; tall and lanky with a cowboy hat always on. He started a bike hire (we had a good chat about bikes! (Good luck to all the CLIC24 riders this weekend, hope the weathers kind)) business several years ago and ploughs the profits back into his school. Now he has 60 kids aged between 3 and 6, 3 teachers and two school buildings. All paid for by bikes! The kids were wild to say the least. Great fun but you couldn't excite them too much for fear of being mobbed. The funniest moment was the little kids shouting to Tom and Anna on the swing's and roundabout 'Mzungu push! Mzungu push!' We're Mzungu's here; the white people.
We left the Bus behind yesterday. The roads are so badly potholed and soft, just compacted sand in places, that the Bus can't get down them. We all jumped in taxi's to get there. The Bus has struggled a lot of the time actually. It's forced to go so slowly that ladies with half a kitchen garden on their head walk past you when you're going down the road! This is a shame because we can't get to the community schools most in need of help and end up going to some government schools on main roads. These aren't much better mind you.
This Mzungu is off to find a decent coffee, more soon.