Busy, busy, busy!

Oooops, not updated in a while, sorry!

My excuse is that I have been terribly busy over the last few weeks. So what have I been up to? I think you last heard from me when I had malaria and was feeling pretty rubbish, well, you'll be glad to hear, I'm fully recovered and raring to go!

Vic visited last week, which was awesome. We went to Senga bay on the west of Lake Malawi, which was beautiful. A tropical paradise. We didn't do anything too strenuous, apart from a lazy swim and a gentle stroll up the beach for lunch one day. It was lovely to sit and natter which a cold soda and catch up on our lives. We also played plenty of rummy which I am champion :-) Hehe! Our travel there was typically African, the minibus took ages to Salima and then our pick up truck hitching ride was extremely packed, even to the point of the Africans saying there was no more room! We got to Senga bay at sundown and then hiked 3 km in the dark to our accomodation, scary and daunting at times but we made it. The next day we saw the beauty of God's creation around the lake, it was stunning :-)

We had an easier time travelling down from Senga bay to Blantyre though it did take about 9 hours in total. Tuesday was spent seeing the sights of Blantyre including most importantly La Caverna which is a cafe in gorgeous gardens and provides very good coffee and passion fruit cake. Wednesday we took advantage of the fact Phil and Aaron were up Zomba mountain doing repairs on the McGrath's chalet and travelled to the base of the mountain by minibus and caught a lift up in their car. We hiked around Zomba all day seeing the William's falls and Dam, we even saw a troop of baboons with babies which was cute. Thursday was the coffee shop trip out past Limbe market where we bought lots of beans and ground coffee and sat and tasted a new blend of coffee, I also showed Vic the hopsital and clubfoot clinic to show her what I get up to at work. Vic had an unexpected extra day on friday as the bus left in the evening to Lilongwe rather than the morning so we went into town again and found the material shop and the wood market and then went to spices for lunch.

Saturday I watched the Scotland South Africa game amongst many South African's at a friends house and gloated when the Scots won :-) Bring on this weeks match England v SA!

This week has been spent getting back into work. I have a lot of things to do including finishing up my project, staring a case presentation on metabolic bone disease, and writing a letter to world vision to ask them to fund my project. Please pray that I will have the wisdom to orgainise what I need to do when and the motivation to complete everything.

This weekend I hope to go to Club Mak which is a venue on the south part of the Lake. Some friends are taking part in the 'club Mak mile' which is a swimming race in the lake. We'll also hopefully watch the rugby match up there :-)

TTFN

H xx