Le Meridien Livingstonia Beach Salima

... is to pull back so I was really hesitant at the stage. If it wasn't for them pushing you off, I doubt I would've jumped! It was "some weird place between freakin' scary and f-ing awesome!" as L and C said. I actually had a moment of not breathing whilst I was freefalling! I would so recommend it to everyone though! We all finished up and were ready to go home but they were having problems with our professional photos. "5 minutes more, 5 minutes more" 2 hours later and coming up to ...

... is that! Trying to pack loads in to our last couple of weeks and just make the most of being in Africa! We went to the immigration office today and finally got everything sorted for our visas which is the biggest relief ever, God has been so good to us with that! Hopefully will get to write again before we come home! Hope everyone has an amazing week, please pray for our work in the orphnagae that it continues to go so well! Lots and lots of Malawian love! xxxxxxx

... and cleaned the table and had a candle lit supper whilst chatting about intellectual thangs...which i ended up staying pretty shtum in. But good nihts all round. I'm in now in Dedza for hte weekend for Liv's birthdy and it is our last weekend in Malawi...sooo sad! off to Zambia next weekend woo. Loads of love and i'm glad things are going bon bon in the homeland, minus the hiccup of yee olde credit crunch that is...xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Nicky xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

... swimming. Below you'll get a taste of each--hearing from village chiefs on the scarcity of water, LifeNets development grant applicant Nesta Phiri on building a rural clinic, and school administrators, teachers and students reflecting the challenges in providing, facilitating and receiving quality high school education. Tomorrow I depart to Balaka, Malawi to visit the clinic of Dr. Chilopora and the LifeNets orphanage nearby. When UCG youth in Portland, Oregon raised $5 ...

... turns out i didnt get much sleep anyway! from there i went to the bus terminal to find out that the bus had left and I'd have to spend the day in dar es salaam. i managed to find another bus to take me halfway down the country, and when i got there i slept and kept journeying the next day. got cash too, always good



so i get to a little village called mbeya on the tanzania border and decide to stay there for a few days, i got a bus to the border and ...

... gorillas as we thought at first but against terrorists from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The chances of getting attacked are practically zero but in 2000 6 tourists were shot dead while trekking gorillas. The DRC wanted to hit the Uganda government where it would hurt, the tourism industry and so killed 6 tourists and 2 guides. Since then the guides all carry weapons but nothing like that has ever happened again. But back to the tracking. 3 other trackers had set off at 5 that ...

... salsa whilst lying around under the African stars and sharing tales from Bristol. Over breakfast the next day we met two brothers from America. Mike and Brandon had fought in Iraq and Afghanistan and served in the US Marines for four years. Since leaving the army they had been volunteering in an orphanage in Mozambique and had just arrived in Malawi. It was fascinating talking to Mike and Brandon about their time in the 'war on ...

... and
rich people could go to whichever deck they preferred, but the economy
class people could only stay on their own deck that was crammed full of
people, animals, stuff, and occasionally caught a wave that flushed the
pathways. I felt a bit like a colonial. But when i went down to economy
deck I found no ...

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Bao

At Fat Monkeys I learned to play Bao, a board game played in many African
countries under a variety of names (Mancala, Oware or other names), and
with different rules in each region. Bao is a great game! You can play
it tactically like chess, and you need to be good at counting and thinking
a number of steps ahead ...