Thursday, May 1, 2008

Labor Day

Today was a quiet day for us, but big for the locals. We walked out our front door and within two minutes spotted this huge procession marching towards us. Uh oh, what was that our parents warned us not to do... that's right get caught up in marches or demonstrations. Turns out it was labor day and the march was for improved working conditions and social justice. Every business seemed to be represented and it went on for as far as the eye could see in both directions. We spent the rest of the morning at the Livingstone museum which was quite interesting, going through the history of man, Zambia, slavery and more. It also gave a rather strong view on the movement of people from the villages to the urban centres, with a couple of rooms dedicated to "our village" and "their town".

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