Enjoyable changes

So this would be my first post from Zambia!
there is so much to talk about it is hard to know where to begin. I should first begin by saying that I love everything about Zambia and the people that i've come to know here so far. It is a very friendly culture and my host family couldn't be better!
Right now I am in training about 40km from the capital, Lusaka. The days are busy!! 4 hours of learning Lunda in the morning ( a language only spoken pretty much in the NW province where I will be after March 30th but scarce around the area i'm living in now). After Lunda, I walk 30 minutes to my house for lunch, then 30 minutes back for 3 hours of Tech training in the afternoons!
The weather is nice and toasty and humid! I've already suffered my first major sunburn, so glad to have that out of the way! Lucky for me I was smart and brought along a huge bottle of Aloe Vera!:)
The first week in Zambia was spent on a site visit to a current PCV(volunteer) who was living WAY out in the bush! The most exciting part of that trip was getting to kill my first chicken! Also just a preview of what life will be like for me for the next 2 years when i'm out in the "bush".
I already know which province I will be living in (NorthWest) and it is the most "bush", "hard-core" province out of them all. Just in the sense that I will be farther away from other volunteers & the bigger villages. The other positives of my province are Pineapples & Mangoes & Honey!
So the biggest shocker so far has been a tie between the giant cockroaches and the rats! The cockroaches I've come to term with because they pretty much leave you alone. The rats on the other hand, they poop everywhere! Before I left the states I had only thought about rats in the sense that i might have to eat them, but little did I know that they would be scampering across my roof all night and somehow managing to get into my house to poop all over! But hey, they don't bother me, so I'm fine with it:)
Well that is the update for the first 3 weeks of my life in Zambia! I miss you all! and the snow!