First few days in Mzuzu

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Yesterday we went for orientation to the primary school to meet the children, teachers, head villagemen and important councillors of education. They performed a display of traditional African singing, dancing and poetry. We were presented with a gift. The gift turned out to be 60 eggs...and a live goat! The goat is, in fact, no longer...we had a BBQ last night! Not necessarily a good experience for all!

Today we headed off to Geisha Primary School for our first day of work experience. The girls painted two classrooms and the office and the guys moved bricks and helped with building work. We also helped to plant some trees, one of which is named 'Blairgowrie High Tree'.
This evening we met some teenagers from the local High School Masasa, and we spent some time getting to know them and exchanging addresses to become penpals.

No need to worry, we are having a fantastic time, the food is good and no evidence of mosquitoes


It is hard for us to update this as the internet can be slow but we will do it as often as we can 😊

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Photos

Children
We were greeted by lots of children singing on our arrival.

Michelle
Demonstrating skipping to the children

Our gifts to the school
We handed over many different games, and of course plenty of pencils, pens, paper etc

The Band
A group of young children played musical instruments whist others sang along

Comments

[Elspeth Lumb]

first few days in Mzuzu
Just to say we're addicted to following the blog so it's great when you can update it. You've been in the Courier this week - was that Laura's dad? - so the grandparents and others have seen it . We're doing our best at this end to show the kids what you're up to. I used half of my German lesson showing the kids what you're doing and where Malawi is and why you're there - global citizenship box ticked right here!