The minibus challenge

Second day in Kitwe, it's Saturday and I am actually in the office (yes the one without a proper toilet, so trying not to drink too much water!). The good news is Jedone had the toilet fixed back home so it no longer leaks - and it has a seat! Yippee! The shower is also fixed, but on the basis that it only has cold water I decided to stick to the buckets of hot water.


Getting to work was entertaining. We took the minibus today, although for a while I was convinced we were doing some sort of Guinness book of Records stunt to see how many people we could fit in. Timetables don't exist; the priority is definitely how many you can get in, even if you have to shuttle back and forth to find them. Which is what we appeared to do as we spent about 5 minutes reversing backwards. For what I am not sure, although we did squeeze another person in before we actually started heading forwards and in the right direction again. I guess that could be a new twist to transport making you late for work, 'sorry boss, the mini bus driver couldn't find enough people to fill the bus so he wouldn't take us in to town'. Might be a bit difficult to get off with that one back home but...!

I was right at the back as you can see from this picture, along with several others!

The church is still going full pelt next door - wonder if they have been there all night? Must be worn out with all that shouting and singing! Needless to say I came prepared today and have the iPod on - which works for the more sedate celebrations but it's a bit of a battle between them and Snow Patrol at the moment, with the latter loosing.
 
This is my second attempt at this posting as the inernet went down earlier. Such is life!