Today I got up and made some scrambled eggs for breakfast… couldn’t find any salt, so they weren’t very good. We left around 8:30 a.m. and headed to the “Circle of Hope” facility. This is where Zambians who think that they might have HIV/AIDs come to get tested. If they are found to be positive, then the facility provides them with the medications they need to survive with the disease. We interviewed a few HIV positive patients along with the Lady that runs the facility and shot some b-roll of the process that the Zambians go through when having their blood tested. We then packed up and headed to a school where we needed to get some shots of students working with pencils, paper, glue, and so on. Lifeway has a project where kids from america provide the kids in Zambia with the tools they need for schooling supplies. We stopped for lunch and at some chicken… Africans eat a lot of chicken so there are many places that serve it…infact you can see many live chickens all over the streets and Zambians walking around with 2 of them holding them by the wings. I’m pretty sure if you hit a chicken with your car and killed it, you would not want to stick around, they would come after you for sure. At lunch we talked about what all we have captured so far, what might be missing, and how we could formulate it all into one cohesive story. I guess I should tell you a little about the team… Shawn is a writer for IMB, he will be writing a story on the trip… Jessie (Jessica) is also a writer and has been helping out with all aspects of the shoot. Matt is the photographer and he concentrates on getting the photos necessary to back up the story that Shawn writes. Ethan is the videographer under me, he and I are responsible for telling the story through video. I’m the only one that is freelance, they are all employed by the International Mission Board. On our way from the Circle of Hope facility to lunch we saw some young boys bathing in the fountain in the middle of downtown Lusaka, running around buck naked..it was quite humorous. After lunch we drove to the school and drove through an amazing marketplace where Zambians sell everything from clothes to food. It is actually a bad section of the town and just as you get to the school you go through the area with all the bars. We were there shooting for a little while when I decided to get a shot looking down the street /alley of all the bars and marketplace… quickly 3 drunk Zambian guys came rushing over and made it clear that they didn’t want me to take picture down that alley, they practically forced me to delete photos I had taken…I deleted one of them, but not all. They were really irritated for whatever reason and stood there staring to make sure none of us shot any video or took photos in their direction until it was time to pack up and head out. As we drove back through, I have to admit I was intimidated that it seemed like everyone on the street knew about us and they all looked angry, it definitely felt like it was from a movie where they might have all just started banging on the car and who knows what. We made it out safely and headed back to the Mission house. We decided to hit the nicest restaurant in Lusaka for dinner at a place called Rhapsody, I had a filet and it was really good. We sat and talked for a while and then headed back. I was really tired, but they wanted to watch a movie so I joined them for a while until I finally just had to go to bed.