Malawi Memories

We leave Malawi in less than one week.

Top 10 Most Memorable Malawi Moments
(in no particular order)
1. Adam knocking over a tiny child with a basketball to the head at KASO
2. Minibus rides (they are always eventful)
a. a 250-pound woman squeezing into four inches of space between Adam and a stranger
b. a young mother handing her child over to Rachel to hold until Likuni
c. multiple passengers carrying large grocery bags full of fish
d. eardrum shattering music issuing from the speakers right next to our heads
e. the two-and-a-half hour minibus ride from town to...town
f. Rachel getting...several...phone numbers from hopeful Malawian men
3. an evening with our severely intoxicated uncle Martin
4. waking up to country gospel music on the weekends
5. the power failing the first three times we attempted to cook
6. being frightened half to death by a (potentially rabid) dog that jumped over a 12-foot wall as we were walking by (the dog was not rabid, but it could have been!)
7. being offered chamba (pot) and strawberries every time we went near the post office
8. breaking our bed in the first week at the Gondwe house (Africans are of a slimmer build)
9. our fascinating tour of the national park, which included viewing hyena dens (dirt mounds showing no signs of life), dead weeds and stagnant water, a python and dried out alligator (also showing no signs of life), then having our tip refused because our guide wanted more money
10. having a baby throw up the entire contents of his stomach, covering Rachel's pants, only to have another baby throw up on her chest and hair a few minutes later