One Year On

Saturday was exactly one year since I arrived in Malawi - and what a year!

You've read a lot about it and are probably better placed than me to notice any changes in mood and attitude. But even I can tell that things seem very different now to me than they did 365 days ago.

Things I have learnt include:

• Change can be good;
• It's important to trust your instincts; and
• Spiders are always evil (a year on, they still make me cry).

But most of all - it's the people that make a place. Scotland or Malawi, if you're not with the people you love (or really can't love the ones you're with) then you're wasting your precious time.

We've been lucky. The people here have made our year.

F x

PS - we celebrated one year and started our good-byes by splashing out on 'the' proper swanky restaurant in town (so the photo was actually taken in Malawi!)

Malora

Finally managed to drag A to the cinema on Fri night (yup, there is a cinema here but A has irrational aversion to 'loosing' his evenings to it).

A bunch of us went to see Avatar, though naturally not in the fancy 3D format. I thought it was brilliant! Granted, I haven't been to the cinema in a loooong time so the pretty pictures were rather hypnotic and, granted, the plot wasn't groundbreaking, but it is a really beautiful film.

If you are wondering what Malawi looks like, it's that, but less glow in the dark. Massive plants, huge cliffs, waterfalls, strange colours and lots of biting animals. All there, here, in Malawi.

And, actually, we did see a glow worm in the garden the other night!

F x

Ps - sorry I've not been blogging much. In the middle of my final fling with work. Like everything, interesting but very challenging!
Speak soon
F x

Some pics of the hoaching garden

Stop the Press

Steers (SA Burger King type outfit) has come to town - we now have a fast food outlet - check, us, out!

I can report that the burgers and chips are just what you would expect - fast food is crap the world over. But, Malawi is now officially on the map - woo hoo!

Raining a lot. Nothing much else happening.

F x