Mwapoleni!
“Mwapoleni” means “welcome” in the Zambian Copperbelt dialect of the Bemba language. Our students will be learning this and many more words and phrases as they interact with the people of Zambia. Please feel welcome to leave your comments about the program, the site, the adventure our students are having, or your own experiences of Africa, travel, and expanding your understanding. When leaving comments, you do not need to use your full name if you do not wish to. A valid email address is required, however, to help prevent comment spammers from cluttering up our space.
Posting to the blog while the students are in Africa will be a group endeavor in that all the students who wish to participate will add their thoughts to common posts that will be uploaded whenever someone is able to ride the truck into the nearest town to get to an Internet cafe and post to the site. Hopefully, they will post often and let all of us in on their many wonderful experiences, but please understand if they are unable to communicate as much as we (or even they) would like.
Also, edublogs will be updating its servers this weekend (the 16th and 17th) so there may be some downtime.
June 13th, 2007 at 11:29 am
I love seeing the new words. I LOVE just saying the word Chimfunshi! It has such a wonderful sound. (: When you give us a new word, could you spell it out phonetically if you have time? I know we’d all like to be pronouncing the words correctly.
June 14th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Hello Chelsey and everyone. Have a safe and happy trip. I know it will be one forever implanted in your memories as you experience life in a different culture.
Chelsey’s friend,
Frank