more wildlife....

Hello from a very humid Mzuzu

This week has been extremely hot and humid with some torrential rains showers, which in turn brings out the wildlife! Here you can see one of the many snails which live in my garden - they are in abundance - shame that we don't eat them - there would never be a scarcity of food! They are rather large compared to snails found in UK.

I felt very bad the other day when I lifted a basket in my house only to find that I had scared this poor lizard and so he shed his tail. Here you can see the poor lizard without his tail, and on the next picture you can see the tail without the lizard!!


On Wednesday, a PCI container arrived in Mzuzu so there was great excitement as it was opened between showers! I received many boxes for preschool and I want to say a big thank you to all the churches and groups who sent them - already we have given boxes of materials to 11 schools within Mzuzu, and they are delighted to have some materials. We are planning training in the next two months within Mzuzu so the training boxes are really useful. Thanks to one and all for these gifts of love to the children and caregivers in Malawi.

One slight problem when a container arrives is that we do not have anywhere to store the boxes until we can deliver them so this picture shows you the state of my hall today!!! My spare bedroom is also packed full, so no visitors this week please!!!

My camera was not on hand this week but we are blessed in school with a German Volunteer who has come to YWAM (Youth with a Mission) in Mzuzu. She is a young girl doing a gap year before going to University. She has been a great help as we had 2 teachers off sick and 1 admitted in the hospital! Life is never straight forward here.

One of our colleagues in Education department was admitted in hospital during the week and sadly died on Friday. One of our teachers from school was admitted to hospital on Wednesday afternoon - it was Thursday evening before a doctor saw her. I was with her today (Saturday) and the doctor had come again this morning and put a drip up and took blood from her. The drip had finished at lunchtime and had not been checked since (it was about 4pm when I visited). Please pray for our teacher that proper medical care will be given and that she will recover soon.

In between all of the above, I entertained visitors from Ballymoney, and have been planning our training programme for the next two months..........

So its been a busy week with one thing and another, but its been enjoyable.

Wishing you a great week ahead

Diane