Blogs from Central, Malawi, Africa - page 6

Ok, I know its been a while... about a month, as its been so long I'm just going to write about what I can remember... So Lets start with the most wonderful public transport we have here... (I have lots of stories but these are my favourites) The 1st story: Jessica and I had to get home from the lake after our camping trip with Thia. We waited at the corner where the path to the lake meets the main road for 30 mins and finally got in a tok-tok that was so full, 4 people were hanging on to the outside. When squished in, with our camping bags, thankfully we didn't have the tent and bedding! I counted all the people that were also squished inside, there were 18 people including the men hanging on ... read more

Arrivée au Malawi - il y a bientôt deux mois Henry le directeur de l’école où je vais travailler m’a obtenu un visa, mais malheureusement avec entrée sur le territoire à l’aéroport. Ceci m’oblige à payer un billet d’avion qui coute autant pour un vol de deux heures que pour aller au bout du monde. Je m’étais réjouis de traverser le Mozambique et le Zimbabwe en bus et avait réglé toutes les formalités et suis donc un peu dégoûté de prendre l’avion, mais au final je suis heureux de rejoindre le Malawi. Le directeur de l’école vient m’accueillir à l’aéroport. Nous nous saluons de manière très chaleureuse, il est mort de rire car je ne ressemble absolument pas à la photo qu’il avait en sa possession. Nous sortons du minuscule aéroport de la capitale Lilongwe et ... read more

I will recommend a cup of tea and some snacks for this, I had to have a tea pot full of tea just writing this!! I hope you enjoy and take your time... Lets start with a happy story..... Last week I had a pet tortoise called Mike for 30 minutes! One of the builders at work found him behind some rocks and gave him to me to look at. I picked the tortoise up at the surprise of everyone and took him to the kids, he was very strong and quite heavy, lots of teachers came to look and went away a bit sheepish of him except for Virginia who stayed with us. I asked her what we should call it, she came up with Mike, and it stuck. Lots of the kids came closer ... read more

We pass the night in at a horrible camp. Small, crowded, mercenary and overrun with biting ants! Going into the truck at 5am I nearly step on the other travelers...they had all fled to the sanctuary of the truck in the middle of the night! (Using Island smarts plus being environmentally incorrect, noticing the ants earlier had sprayed my tent so was fine). We left camp very early heading for Zambia...Goodbye Malawi (for now). There are more great things here to discover but time is limited and overall it was not easy... Now onward to Zambia...deeper and deeper into the heart of Africa.... read more