Day 5: Back to Lilongwe

After breakfast at Carolinas where they served us local fruit, bananas and papayas, on the house, we drove back to Lilongwe. On the way we were scheduled to visit two programs.

The first one took us off of the main road and onto a rutted dirt road for 30 to 40 minutes, one way. I was riding shotgun in the car Don was driving. We have both a car that Don drives and the van that Luzu drives. Anyway, this gave us a chance to see what life is like in rural villages in Africa. Lots of traditional round huts with thatched roofs. When we got to our destination, there were some women and children who greeted us. I think that the person that we had hoped to see was not there that day.

So we drove back to the main road, this time I was sitting in the van. We ended up missing our visit at our second destination because we had the wrong directions. We meet the director of this program for dinner, we bought him and his wife dinner. He is a very nice and intelligent young man. The kind of man who can help Malawi in the future.

We got back to Lilongwe. Don's wife, Mary and I had an adventure walking around a two block area of Lilongwe, crossing streets three times. Crossing streets is almost like taking your life out of your hands. But we both came out the other end, so to speak.

Those of us who are staying at Wendels, got to Wendels and immediately went off to our rooms to hook up to the internet to write home to friends.

I am late to breakfast at the start of day six, so I'll sign off for now.