This group of people are very far away from anything that we would call civilization. There were many people, but we could not see any huts or lodgings. We had no idea how far anyone had come to be there. There hospitatlity was especially touching as they prepared their best food for us. We were allowed to sit inside on benches while they ate outside on the grass. As they were preparing for lunch, they started a song, and we could tell by their body actions that they were pretending to answer phones and saying, "hello, hello". I asked for a translation from Oscar, our translator, and he said it was a song about how God answers my prayers better than my friends will answer their phones. Then we talked about how, with God, we don't have to worry about signal or recharging the battery. At the end of the day we said goodbye and gave each person, both male and female, the bags of jewelry that we had prepared. We told the men that these gifts were for their wives. The women quickly put on their jewelry and began to sing. They danced with their hand in the air praising God. The women sang as they said goodbye and the sound was so joyful; it is such a beautiful sound. We had to say goodbye to each person at least three times with the special Zambian handshake. We were desperate to get to the main road while there was still daylight, because it would be difficult to find our way in the dark.
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