Longonot 43-Lodge Lilongwe

... poverty. Children were literally in rags. It was heart breaking to see. We arrived to our campsite, Kande Beach, on Lake Malawi at about 4pm and set up camp right on the beach. It was fantastic. That evening we had a few drinks in the bar and played King of Beers aka Ring of Fire. People got pretty drunk but it was very funny.

The following morning we were up early because of the heat in the tents. We spent the day on the beach and going swimming hoping ...

... in goal was effectively given Player of the Match by the locals.

Had our evening meal at the chief’s house and the local kids did a few songs and dances for us. Back at camp we surprised Gary with a cake for his 40th birthday today.

There are another 3 overland trucks here and all partied long into the night, not easy to get to sleep.

9th – Left at 10am driving to and stopping for food at Mzuzu, the largest town north of Lilongwe ...

... kids the game where you pass the balloon under your legs and over your heads and they went CRAZY for it, it was so funny! And we taught the little ones duck duck goose (except galu galu pusi in Chichewa!) on one day and they absolutely thought it was the coolest thing ever invented, the next day we came and no-one would listen to anything they were all just chanting "galu galu pusi galu galu pusi!" And we even taught them loads of english songs which was amazing (Our God is ...

... to miss seeing lizards running about and the beautiful, strange and exotic flowers. It's also been a great bonus that Christianity is so common here. Most minibuses have bumper stickers on them saying "God is good" and "God is able". Plus the worship here is so different. The Malawians just abandon themselves to praise, they don't care what anyone thinks and their singing is remarkable. Definetly going to miss the African music!!
We all feel we have learnt something from our ...

... the community involvement every step of the way. After that we went to tour the village we were supposed to stay in before Marg was sick. Great place and the concept is fantastic, hope that a lot of people go and stay there. We have just been told that we are being pickup tomorrow morning around 8 to go to the next village to start work, I think the kids do not realise how hard it is going to be.

... that we won't get too homesick and we'll make the most of our last remaining weeks.
*Please pray that our project at the orphanage goes well, that we and the children will enjoy it. Thank God that it went so well yesterday!
*Massive praise to God for being constantly, tangibly with us through some very tricky times and actually throughout our whole trip!!

I look forward to seeing you all again!!
Never forget just how blessed you are.
I love you
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... vous aident tout le temps sans que vous ne leur demandez quoi que ce soit.

Lilongwe est une ville sans charme dont la seule attraction touristique est une bourse d echange de balot de tabac, seul revenu du pays a l exception du tourisme.

... for and if it's what God wants us to do the we must do it! There are probably going to be a couple of days spent in a teacher training college and maybe a week spent in an orpahanage to spice things up. Prayer requests-
Praise God that we survived the mounatin!
Pray that we won't get too frustrated with starting the teaching programme again. That we will teach every lesson with the passion it deserves. 6 and a half weeks left!! I love you all and miss you lots!
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... after teaching me and Jo went on another adventure just exploring around our area which was reeeaallly nice...we went to the post office and outside there are all these stalls with wooden stuff so we looked at those for a bit and then these guys showed us how to play bao, which is actually the best game in the world, you have this tray thing with all these little dips and then you have beans that you have to move around into the different pots, its SO complicated if you ...

Arrival

I took a taxi and stared at the land and people outside, trying to suppress
my excitement in order not to make the driver think I was some lunatic.
I kept telling myself in my head: I am really in Africa!! But it was still
very surreal.

The driver let me have a look at two different guesthouses I had selected
from LP, I picked the least smelly one. I spent two nights at St Peter's
Lilongwe, Malawi cecilia74