Ride on a bukky

Just settling into life in Zambia before we started the camps, we had a chance to go into town and experience Zambian/African Culture. And we were offered a ride into town and someone asked who would like lift in town on the back of a bukky, and to begin with, I was like what the heck is a bukky, but soon realised it was a ute. And I was so excited I was almost (and probably did) jump up and down saying me, me I want to. :D 

I don’t know what it was about riding on the back of a ute but it made me feel like – Yep I’m in Africa. So we sat on the back, and i loved every second and we went to the shops and there were people everywhere street markets and completly different to what shopping is like in Australia. But because I had been to Kenya I wasn’t really out of my comfort zone, I felt like yep it surely isn’t like shopping in Australia but TIA – This Is Africa. 

And what really stuck out to me about this simple trip to the shop. Was a boy who brightened my day. He was in the car park with a handful of empty shopping bags and he looked like he worked there. But it was clear he had a mental disability, as soon as we arrived he came and greeted us with the biggest smile I have seen and the words, - we are to be light in the darkness, popped into my head. This boy was a bright shining light/star in a dark place. And like I said he really did brightened my day.

Later on I got to do some errands, with some of the boys. As we parted at the hands offices, a man off the street came over and begun to talk to us, and at one stage he simply said, I’m really enjoying this moment with you guys and it really was a divine appointment. I also got a chance to get to know a guy called Adam who was there volunteering with Hands, and because he had been the same process of orientation I was about to go through, I got to ask him what felt like a million question and hear his story and his heart and passion for Africa and it was such a God moment to have this great conversation when I really need to have it. So I was a peace here I am in Africa, right where I am meant to be. 

Later that day I got to meet one of the hands works daughters who is so cute, she takes a while to warm up to people though and she was playing with Adam and he had to leave and so I picked her  up she became attached to me which was So special and made me feel really at home