Hey look I'm on TV!

Well not quite, in fact none of it ended up on TV as the technology for the random selection programme failed yet again!










It all started well, with Gideon the programme manager looking very relaxed and happy!

The audience (all 15 of them), brought in especially to whoop and cheer in real Gerry Springer show style, were all lined up in their assorted plastic seats (ok, so it’s not BBC). But the technology still refused to work. More people huddled round to offer their (expert!) opinion.

The presenters did a quick rehearsal with much hilarity as someone tried to convince them they were actually live. Well I guess they had to do something to entertain the audience. Then even more people huddled round the laptop. The very unhappy looking tall woman on the left was one of the ZNBC people!

Then it was all too late and attempt number 3 at doing a live selection failed! Then, after the cameras were no longer rolling and the lights were off, Norman turned up on his white charger. Well it was Gideon’s sister’s slighly dilapidated car actually, but hey! So after a bit of button pressing by Norman and muttering and mumbling within the assorted crowd still left, the selection programme was running. Just a pity it was too late! But apparently we are on again for Saturday - and I think they are taking Norman with them to the studio!

What got me was that everyone seemed quite relaxed about the fact that they had just failed to make a life transmission over the Country’s main network!! Can you imagine that back home!  

Unfortuntely I think George Clooney left before I got there! :-(

We didn't get back to the village until about 8 pm last night so quite a long day and Jedone went straight to bed after his tea, so it was just me and the kids fighting over the remote - I won, but then I am the elder!

I was all ready to go to one of the schools today, but Jedone is not feeling very well. He had Malaria a few weeks back so he thinks it might be that again and needs to go to the Doctors, so doubt if we will make it to the school. I am not surprised he is not well, he works really hard but hardly eats anything. I have been saying to him since I got here that he doesn’t eat enough. Zambians also appear not to drink very much either, which is surprising for a hot country. Although there may be a direct correlation between that and the toilet situation over here! And let’s not mention the fact that I have yet to come across any soap in a toilet!! (Even the ZNBC ones didn’t flush and had no soap!). I soooo just don’t want to think about it!!

Hope Jedone is going to be ok though.

I guess with the school not happening today I really ought to get on with some work. Will continue to work with Vivian today setting up things on Microsoft. I also need to finish doing the animations for the Power Point presentation for the Stephen Lewis Foundation later this week.

It has been quite sunny recently but is absoulutely tipping it down today and the skys are dull.  I could almost be back home.

Have a good day.