Saturday, November 21, 2009

THIS IS IT for Sam's Zambia Experience!

You were the motivation for me to keep publishing posts! THANK YOU very much for visiting my blog! Although I highly doubt that you had nearly as much fun reading it, as I had writing it, I do hope that you enjoyed the posts. Since April, this site received thousands of hits from 61countries.

I hope that through this medium I was able to shed some light on what life in an African country is like, even though this blog may resemble using a match to light a palace. I hope that I shared enough information to reduce common prejudices about places, people and life in an African country, and I hope that I was able to expand your horizons. I hope that you are now more aware and care (more) about life in places that are not “just around the corner”. Finally, I hope that I was able to build up enough interest and/or courage that you may even consider a trip to Zambia, or any other country that seems “so far away and so different”. This trip to Zambia, was certainly an experience of a lifetime, and I'll keep the memories forever.

For those of you who would like to travel, but are not in a position to do that, I hope that at some point in the near future you will be able to travel, and I hope that in the meantime you were able share my experience of life in Zambia.

In closing, I would like to thank my lovely wife Azadeh. Not only has she been volunteered to become an editor, a model and a photographer, but this whole "blog thing" was initially HER idea; and come to think of it, the whole “doing service abroad thing" was also initially HER idea. In other words, without her, I wouldn’t have made it to Africa, and you wouldn’t have been able to read this sentence. THANK YOU AZADEH!

1 comments:

  1. Sam and Azadeh - I just found your blog today and found it inspiring. I attended high school in Lusaka, but have been back in the states since 1977. I am considering a two year position in Lusaka, and trying to search everything I can find about what to expect if I do get to go. I'd love to hear more from you, If you wouldn't mind. My email address is garyallen@mac.com

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