Arrived

We safely arrived in Malawi last night. The journey was uneventful apart from being stuck on the runway at Jo'burg for 40 mins on the runway on the way to Malawi, fortunately we were both so tired that we slept through it as it was very hot. Thankfully that was our only flight on Air Malawi as their planes (plane?) always looks so tired.

Dawn from the plane flying into Africa was stunning. The sky was so red and the little clouds on the horizon looked like silhouettes of trees and houses so it looked like land. It was magical. There were also little 'hills' of black cloud below with local intense electrical storms.

It was lovely to be back in the hotel again and to see all the staff again, it is definitely like a home for us here. I love the sounds and smells of this place - I wish I could bottle it all up and take it home so I could instantly be brought back here. The smells are of warm earth and wood smoke. The sounds are of a beautiful bird song (I will have to find out what the birds are at the hotel, I never see them but their song is wonderful), distant people laughing, music, sometimes drums and the call to prayer.

Julie and Chris who've been here since Tuesday met us last night for a working dinner to discuss the progress we made and what we want to do this week.

I slept like a log! The bed is so comfortable and I am really grateful for air conditioning.