Work continues to progress with only a few days till the Canadians go home.

The roof for the new Buseko house was due last wednesday, , then thursday, then friday, then monday, then definately 11:00 -12:00 today, but now it is 9:00 tomorrow. Seems that is how things go here.

We went to one of the hardware shops today to get the glass ordered to fix hudson litanias windows. Quite an experience. Seems all of the hardware shops here are owned by Indians who have a very complicated way of doing transactions. After finding a man to help, he then went to another man who worked out how much glass we needed, then an invoive was written, then another man checked it, then the big indian lady checked it, then we paid the cashier 1,601,000 kwacha, then the indian boss checked the receipt and gave us the small items we had on the list, then it was out the back shed to another indian man to confirm that we would pick up the cut glass on thursday. Hopefully when we go back on thursday it will be ready - here's hoping.
As we were leaving that store a Zambian man approached us and asked if we needed someone to install glass - either he saw us with the 20kg of putty or he had some inside help, anyway we took his number and I think we will take him out with us when we do it. He told us he was a "professional" and was very courtious.

Then we went looking for a few solid doors for the Litanias as well. Having given the indians anough fo one day we saw some handmade panel doors leaning up on the side of the road. After a few attempts to find out who was really selling them we fould an older Zambian who explained in broken english that he made them and they were Rosewood and 350,000kwacha each. He took us into the building, we went through a heap of empty rooms, out the back veranda where the chickens were roaming, past his dried fish lunch, back inside another door, through a metal grill door (like on a jail) then through a few more rooms and finally arriving at a desk.