ARRIVED IN MALAWI

After a long flight on an enormous plane, I and several other teachers from Kent arrived at Addis Ababa airport in Ethiopia at 6 am. To our surprise it didn't feel hot outside the plane as we disembarked. We had a two hour wait for our next plane taking us to our final destination - Malawi. 

Leaving Addis Ababa

Ethiopia from the plane:

To get to Malawi we had to fly over Tanzania ... Was this black mountain top, peeking up above the clouds Mrs Penfold's mountain?

Before I continue I promised to say a special hello to DANNY!!

We flew over lake Malawi which is HUGE and then had a rather scary landing at Lilongwe - I feel the pilot should practise his landing skills...heavens! It is a very small airport so it wasn't hard to find Chris Knott and all the Starfish staff waiting for us. By now it was hot and the sun in Africa is low in the sky, big and bright if not dazzling! 

Today we have driven round Lilongwe town and we went into supermarkets very like ours (except there were quite a lot of police standing outside the shops). We saw people and children dressed in smart clothes but one young boy asked us for money and said 'Boss, boss I'm very hungry'. We saw another boy who walked with crutches because he had polio when he was very little. English children are given medicine so we don't get that disease anymore. All the babies and little children are carried on their mother's backs in a sling made from material which they love!

Tomorrow we travel to Kasungu national park to go on safari but I am sorry to say we might not have much internet access after this. 

If not I will post after I get back with more pictures. 

SPECIAL HELLO TO ELEPHANT CLASS.