Pedro's Lodge Blantyre

... aggressively went around the room demanding passports from everyone. The guy on the bed next to us had cannabis on his bed which he managed to cover up without them noticing. We handed over our passport and they were checked. Another guy in our dorm (who was still drunk) was arrested for having an expired visa. He was supposed to be deported after spending a day in jail but we saw him ...

... names. In all, I interviewed 43 LifeNets beneficiaries: 26 scholarship recipients and 18 business grant recipients. After seeing the faces, feel free to email me if you would like to know more about their efforts. With that, enjoy "Blantyre and Baboons." 1. MANES CHIRWA - age 34 and finishing high school 2. MIRACLE KACHALI -- Business Administration scholarship recipient 3. HONEY SWEET WITH APPRECIATION-- business grant 4. MT. MULANJE AND LIWONDE NATIONAL PARK MANES CHIRWA ...

Hi. Yesterday, I had to take Ireen to the hospital because she's been very sick for about the last 5 days and was getting worse and worse every day. It took a lot of convincing to finally get her to go, and it turns out she has Malaria (again). Now, I've been hanging out in her room most of the time to be sure that she's alright. She said this time is much worse than it was when she had it just a few months ...

... 60342 Blantyre 6 Malawi E-mail is timothy@orphancaremalawi.com www.orphancaremalawi.com Please try to spread the word, because they can really, really use the help. Thanks! Also, is there anyone in the Raleigh/Cary area who might be willing to watch my dog for 4 or 5 days in the beginning of December while I am in Vegas??? If anyone is interested, please let me know. Thanks. I better get back to the kids now. It's almost their lunch time!

... mzungu" (white person) and running to the dirt rd to greet us. We were like celebraties. It was pretty entertaining. The safari was great. I saw more animals than last time and we had elephants on our veranda at night. During our boat safari, we got right up close to a group of elephants bathing in the river. One of them was showing off for us and fell on his side and went under water. He came ...

... literally picked me up and threw me in the other direction. We were walking to meet others at night and I was not paying attention and would have never seen it because it was black. Then everyone was yelling in Chichewa and I was being pulled in another direction, it was pretty much total chaos and I didn't fully realize what happened until I was sitting down a bit later. I will never walk around at night in flip flops again! I ...

... so hot here it sometimes hurts to breath if the wind is blowing in your face. I have a nice tan and look forward to reminding everyone how pale they look this winter!! =) I hope everyone had a nice Halloween-I did not celebrate, just went to see a musician from Ziimbabawe which was a lot of fun. He sings about political issues and is very famous in Africa. I will be in SA for thanksgiving getting ready to come home!! I have to get back to work!

... the orphanage. The orphanage where the volunteers was working was very run down, it was not such an orphanage in a way as more of a day care centre which comprised of one small room and lots of children. The children all lived in the local township and could not afford the school fees so would come to the orphanage in the day to get education from the teachers at the orphanage. People had told me about the ...

... because
after the wonderful African bus trip the hotel I stayed at was a completely
westernised one! White people everywhere (even the personnel), Portishead
and Morcheeba blasting from the loud speakers, lots of beer and parties
and stunningly beautiful local prostitutes who you'd see disappearing
Blantyre, Malawi cecilia74