What a week!!!

Hello again,

The good news is that we got home from Lilongwe safely last Sunday, the bad news is that I am still coughing - even after antibiotics I can't seem to shake the cough. I am trying to slow down but with visitors its not easy! This coming week we have two holidays so I am looking forward to that.

I am doing more interviews looking for trainers and so on Wednesday I took Paul to Embangweni. While I was interviewing, Hlezipe took Paul around the station - here you can see them with the Matron of the hospital after a guided tour!

We went out a couple of mornings to deliver some play materials to nursery schools in and around Mzuzu....

Paul helped the caregivers at Viyele to make the morning porridge!!

One of the caregivers was showing us the handwashing facilities they made themselves - impressive!!

Nicolas was talking with one of the committee members at Msiki nursery school - this is the school building! One the way we came across some young school boys who were throwing stones at a tree - because there was a green mamba snake in it........we left them still trying and on the way home, they told us they had killed it!!

At Msiki they had a lovely handmade see saw - at least it was lovely until these two giants went on it!!

As Paul is interested in dairy farming, we stopped at the local co-op so that he could see our fresh milk - we bought a bottle of unpasteurised milk - Nicolas was going to boil it to make it safe for drinking!!

At our new school site, there are some big eucalyptus trees which we have to cut down as they are not stable and can fall during the rainy season. We have to employ tree cutters for this job. As you can see this is quite a tall tree and if you look carefully you can see a man on the lower branches chopping the branches one by one!!

This is a close up of the man. It became so tense that I could not watch anymore!!! They hope to finish on Monday after taking down four trees!! They use ropes to angle the trees down so that they don't fall on people - its an incredible site and an incredible skill!

Today we set of to Vwaza national park to see if we could spot any wildlife - the elephant were hiding today but we saw lots of birds and baboons, warthogs, antelopes and hippos.

But perhaps the most incredible site was these ants carrying a piece of sweetcorn - again I marvel at God's creation when I see such a sight!!

Wishing you all a wonderful week,

Blessings

Diane