Kara O'Mula Lodge Blantyre

... in cape mcclear. 9 people were arrested in our hostel.

the next day we did the free carlsberg brewery tour. It was so worth the effort of finding the brewary as we got a free create of beer at the end (for beer tasting). Very intersting.

Next day we made way for cape macclear.

(btw don't bother going to blatyre. Its not very interesting and as dull as Lusaka)

... girls don't finish their high school education. Some get married and have kids. They lack skills and struggle to get find any work, let a lone a job. Manes Chirwa is over 30 and married with four children without a high school diploma. But with a LifeNets scholarship, she's now accomplishing this achievement. At Love of God Private Secondary School, Manes will soon take exams to finish her senior year and earn the Malawi School Certificate of Education needed to get a job. You ...

... Hopefully she'll be alright. A couple of returning volunteers had a party for everyone at Open Arms on Tuesday. We had nsima, chicken, and some green leaves. I actually ate nsima for the first time! It wasn't bad, but it was so difficult to eat it because it looks like mashed potatoes, but you need to eat it with your hands. First, you roll it into a little ball and then you dip it into the greens and ...

I have exactly 9 days left in Malawi! I am not ready to leave. Looking frantically through the paper for jobs to apply for here in Malawi, but I know I need to come home. This has been the craziest and most wonderful and difficult adventure of my life so far. I have so many pictures that it has gotten too much to post. I will show everyone when I get back to the states. I went to ...

... up about 15 seconds later. The whole trip was fantastic, but we missed the babies so much and decided to go home on Wed instead of Friday. The kids were so excited when we got back and I had the greatest time playing with them before they went to sleep. Yesterday, we took Ephraim and Aggie to the pool and for ice cream. They had the time of their lives. They were laughing hysterically the whole ...

... been giving courses on child abuse and on Friday I will be leading everyone through group activities. Yes, icebreakers! We all know how much I love those. Janice I have needed your books big time!! I found some things online that should work. These students have never done anything like that so I think they will enjoy it. At they very end we will have a water balloon toss! On Sunday I went to an animal reserve where they have giraffes ...

We had a great time in Zomba. We walked around town and went to the market in the morning, then we went out to lunch and then hitched a ride with a man from Zimbabwe up to the plateau. He dropped us off at a trout farm where we were planning to spend the night, but they only had rooms with 2 beds and we needed 3. The man who drove us up there, told us that there is a guest house next to where he stays that costs MK7,000/night which is about $45-50. We ...

... and Claire will be here til mid Dec. I gave out the gifts today. Thomasina took some pictures of me with the things I brought. Everyone was extremely grateful and they want to say a big thank you to everyone who contributed! I am going to the market now to get some food and water. I hope everyone is doing well. I'm going to Ireen's on Sunday to meet her family, so I'll take pictures and try to post them next week.

... of the Malawian people and this was definitely the case. It was a nice change from Arusha where the people there are always trying to get something from you. The Malawians are definitely some of the most friendly people in Africa which is amazing considering most of them survive on less than $US 1 a day. I was always meet with friendly greetings or 'boss' by the men and Zungu by the children which means white man.

... rooms with ugly, fat-bellied South Africans or other tourists. I
myself stayed in a dorm room and had to endure heavy snorers every night...
pffff...



Museum

But at this place I also met Eman, a nice Malawian guy who was on a holiday
himself, and Jake and Charlotte, two British ...