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After six months in Zambia, here are some things we miss and some things we don't miss.

THINGS WE REALLY MISS

Our children
Mexican food
Chinese food
Sonic and Wendy’s
Dr. Pepper
Walmart and Target
Chocolate chips
Spiritually deep sermons (We are preaching and teaching all the time on a very basic level. We’re realizing that we have to be fed as well. Our quarterly missionary gatherings will address this need.)
American prices on food and gasoline
Bookstores
Sleeping in a bed without a mosquito net over it
Riding in the car with just each other and not a load of passengers we’ve picked up along the way








THINGS WE DON'T MISS

Telemarketers
Junk mail
Traffic
Hyped-up news media coverage of current events
TV
Sirens
Over-scheduled evenings (Most Zambians don’t have vehicles, so evening gatherings are few.)
Commercials
From Linda - Wearing panty hose (I have had on hose for exactly three hours in the last six months—to visit the US Embassy)
From David – Wearing a necktie (He’s worn a tie one time—for graduation)
Unmotivated students who take getting an education for granted
Grackles and starlings
Fire ants (We have plenty of other bugs, though!)