The following six posts were sent to me (Brett, the blog keeper) on June 20th — the very day I went out of town and off the grid for a week, so although they were posted today, the events written about took place just over a week ago. My apologies for the delay to those readers who have anxiously been awaiting updates from our students in Zambia.
We’ve made the first photo gallery and others will be added to links on the Photo Galleries page on the blog.
Sorry for all the troubles and frustrations during the past week of system upgrades. There is a more detailed explanation of what happened at the edublogs blog itself. Now that we’re back online, we’ll be backtracking to provide you with some of the news that you’ve missed as well as updating the blog as we get information back from the folks still in Zambia.
“Mwapoleni” means “welcome” in the Zambian Copperbelt dialect of the Bemba language. Our students will be learning this and many more words and phrases as they interact with the people of Zambia. Please feel welcome to leave your comments about the program, the site, the adventure our students are having, or your own experiences of Africa, travel, and expanding your understanding. When leaving comments, you do not need to use your full name if you do not wish to. A valid email address is required, however, to help prevent comment spammers from cluttering up our space.
Posting to the blog while the students are in Africa will be a group endeavor in that all the students who wish to participate will add their thoughts to common posts that will be uploaded whenever someone is able to ride the truck into the nearest town to get to an Internet cafe and post to the site. Hopefully, they will post often and let all of us in on their many wonderful experiences, but please understand if they are unable to communicate as much as we (or even they) would like.
Also, edublogs will be updating its servers this weekend (the 16th and 17th) so there may be some downtime.
I’ve been trying out different themes. Chelsey and I found one we liked, but it had an unremoveable picture of a dog catching a frisbee at the beach — not the most Africa-esque image. The short story is that the site might appear a little topsy-turvy until we get it ironed out.