With a dreadful hangovers Amir & I headed off to Chigoli for training. This was my first chance to see how education fitted into the Chigoli structure. George is currently a teacher at Bishop Mackenzie & you could certainly tell. He led a unit on relationships/partnerships that included personal and business. Both for Chigoli as a business & for the children themselves. Meanwhile George had separated the core of the the under 16's to go for a chat wi...

Game day! Today I went over to see Chigoli for the first time. This was a very exciting moment as last time I was here Chigoli was very much at the drawing board stage. I had no idea what to expect. The under 16 team had a home game. They play at Bishop Mackenzie school which is where I played football last time I was out. Before we got to kick off much like our games at home their were a few absentees, & a few latecomers. What differed was the reason behin...

I slept until 11:00 & probably could have slept for longer but we needed to get the day started. I chatted with the Chigoli volunteer, Amir, staying at Scottys', over a left over KFC breakfast. Alex & Don had already been to the shop to stock up on supplies. When they arrived we drove up to the lake near the hydroelectric dam. As it was a bank holiday weekend we had to pay to grab a table. It was not overtly busy & we had a few drinks with some snac...

Upon arrival to Lilongwe airport I had to purchase a visa for $75 which I had not had to do previously. Scotty & Don were waiting for me & the sun was out on a beautiful day. Flying in I noticed the country seemed much greener than on my previous visit at the height of the rainy season. Feeling particularly tired after not have slept at this point for 29 hours. I reasoned that it would make more sense to try & stay awake for a few more hours before h...

I accompanied Scotty in the car to his 09:00 meeting. However the person he was supposed to be meeting did not show. After 15minutes of waiting we headed off to the small shopping mall. Here I picked up a T shirt for my sister, & a mug for me. Scotty grabbed Nicholas Reynolds an alpaca hat in return for Nick downloading movies & shows onto a hard drive for him. Shopping done, we went to what seems like our second home in Lilongwe the Sun Bird hotel. Whil...