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Wedding of the Century
We are headed to the “Wedding of the Century” as all the locals call it. Today is the wedding of one of Chiefs of Malawi, a wedding that calls the attendance of the…
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Birthday Day One
After several days of debate, I decided to start Andrew’s birthday early. Because his birthday is on Monday, and we will be very busy with work next week, I decided to celebrate his…
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Malawi, Nigeria, & Egypt
Today was another great day at the office. We left at our usual time and walked in the brisk of the morning to area 14, were the CBF office is located. Lilongwe is…
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Vegetable Soup and Dirty Feet
The cock actually crowed at 4:30am this morning, but I ignored him. The problem with African construction is that all the homes are made out of bricks and cement and the amount of…
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Bwaila Hospital
This morning was another beautiful walk to the CBF office as well as a very productive morning going over past data with the CBF analyst, Thwango. I met Thwango last December in Utah…
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To the Local Market
We walked to the CBF office for the first time today. The walk took us about an hour and it was absolutely beautiful. We arrived at the office early so we could finish…
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Eight Baptisms
My email got hacked today. The hacker said I was in Mexico and needed money. Too bad he didn’t make his guess a little more wild an say Africa, then he may have…
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Seven Hours of Mini Buses
Today was another beautiful day. We woke up to a beautiful sunrise across the lake and the sweet sound of water against the rocks on the shore. Once again we headed into the…
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Hippos, Crocs, and Monkey Bay
We woke up to the sun rising at 5:30am. I guess even without our usual rooster alarm clock at our home in Lilongwe, we still wake up very early. Lake Malawi is beautiful…
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Onward to Lake Malawi
We are on our way to our first excursion in Malawi, Monkey Bay on Lake Malawi. We just made a stop right before Salima for people to do their grocery shopping on the…