Mufasa Backpackers Lilongwe

... began. Basically the guys on the stalls are willing to trade you wood carvings for books, pens, clothes, shoes, blankets, torches, you name it! With that they still expect some payment in US dollars or local Malawi kwacha. Alan and I got a few items and left minus a pair of flip flops, a few articles of clothing and a blanket. Its a good way to lighten the rucksack! We were pretty exhausted after hours of bartering and examining so we had an early night.<br>

... place to have pool, and you could wash your clothes in Malawi without having your clothes stolen. Laura, Jules and beck all had parts of their clothing taken L man I fel sory for them, especially cos I know that any piece of clothing is valuable!!! bras were the main item taken apparently theyre are rare to see and get and therefore expensive<br><br>overall lovely campsite tonight, very hostel like and last night in Malawi!!<br ...

... it has been fantastic. Its been the best thing ever to see Gods love for the people here, even though they are so poor they have the most amazing faith and I know its such a cliche but its so true and you dont realise it until you see it! Thanks so much to everyone for all the support you have given me and all the prayers, I feel very very loved! Looking forward so much to seeing everyone soon, cant wait!!! Lots and lots and lots of love!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br><br>

... just hell. Now that we have all that is needed for the next few days we went back for lunch and a little home work for the kids, by the way they are playing paintball this afternoon when they are finished. I am to try to load some pics on travel pod and get the blog up to date. Knock at the door, diner is here yum. I will get to work after diner, when everything is nice and peaceful.

... 1000 young people about absitinence and the love of God!!! We'be had such an amazing experience, one that we'll never forget!<br>I won't go too much into the visa fiasco, most of you know about it already and it's been and gone so I won't dwell on it. The rest of you can look forward to hearing about it when I get back! Get excited!!<br>We've just come back from holi holiday!!! We spent a whole week at Cape Maclear, the most beautiful place I've ever been to. The ...

... was full (which turned out to be a good thing). The coach was already full when we got on board and we dragged our bags to the back of the bus where the last seats were left. There was a stack of bags on the back seat so we pilled our bags on top and found our seats. The ticket conductor then came on and slowly check everyones ticket. He was determined to fill every seat so he tried to charge us for having our bags on the back seat when they could ...

... honest, it wasn't the best thing for 5 girls who don't do any exercise and eat a lot of cake to do but we manged it! After a 7 hour hike we reached the CCAP hut on one of the plateaus about 2,100 metres up (Ben Nevis is only 1,344 metres high so we've climbed higher than the highest mountain in the UK, whoop!) It was a really cute stereotypical mountain hut with huge fires and very Victorian decor! In the evening we all sat round a big camfire with hot chocolate and marshmallows ...

... and it looks amazing, its so new and gorgeous, so that would be really good to get involved with things there...not 100% sure what we would be doing but sure it will be good! Please keep praying something really great will show up thats perfect for us to do! We are really confident something will, know God wouldnt send us all the way to Malawi for us to sit around and doing nothing, but as ever he is cutting it very fine with letting us know! <br>What else have we been up ...

... for the time to go quickly because you miss everyone so much and just want to get home, but the other half is FREAKING OUT because everything here is jsut so amazing and theres a part of me that would be happy to go home never ever! We had a Tearfund representative come to visit us today called Vincent who asked us loads of questions about how everything is going, was cool.<br>What else can I say about this week...there have been quite a ferw school holidays ...

... sexy dress, rather than the short haired, long skirt wearing women <br> I'd seen in the streets. They reminded me of the prostitutes in the hotel <br> in Blantyre. <br><br> Lots of flirting was going on between the Malawians and also between them <br> and us. It was a bit hard to get rid of the guys coming onto the females <br> of our group, but we had a good time dancing and watching. <br>