What an adventure the last 24 hours have been! Yesterday was day two at Namitete. The second day is when we split up the boys and girls to do empowerment discussions. Monica and I were assigned to 40 girls, which is a HUGE number for empowerment. Considering the numbers, everything…
Today was the first day at Namitete school. It went almost perfectly. The day started really rainy, but by the time we had gotten to the school the sun had come out. We had a moment of breathing time on the bus (one of our coordinators is a yoga teacher…
Today was quite an adventure! We were supposed to teach a three-day camp at Mnkhupa. We all piled in to the bus and headed down these back roads, but it had rained the night before and so we were sliding all over the road from the mud. After the…
Today was our day off before we start the next set of camps (Mnkhupa from Monday to Wednesday and Namitete from Thursday to Saturday). The group went hiking, but I stayed home with one of our coordinators, Catherine, to just hang out and recover. I went outside earlier to sit…
Back in Lilongwe, we had a chance to meet the translators for the camps. Since we’re in groups of two for the teaching, we’ll have one translator each. All the translators were under 25, one was 17! They were super nice, and ended up busting out…
So we made it to Lilongwe, Malawi and was it a trip! The flight from Washington/Dulles to Johannesburg, South Africa was about 14 hours. Luckily, I checked out seatguru.com before I left and totally lucked out with my seat. I had a HUGE amount of legroom and I…