Saturday, 7 April 2012

Wildlife Update – Thursday 5th April




The praying mantis has died.

A large funeral procession is currently being held on the floor of living room. The ants are doing a very good job at carrying the thing away. Let us all share a moment of silence. Thank you. BLEURGH.

In other news, our electricity cut out this morning. I miss being able to see my way around and then sit in front of the fan. Now both St Martin’s Hospital [the main site] and Nkope Health Centre [the satellite centre that we’re at] have no electricity.

We’re heading to Blantyre tomorrow [Friday] to determine what we are going to buy with the kind donations given to us by everybody who came to our “Come & Sing” event in Oxford. We’ll keep you updated with what we spend the money on. The hospital has a severe shortage of basic equipment [were it not for the fact that we bought a few boxes of gloves, the health centre would be completely without now], so we’ll see.

Hoping to get this week’s blog posts online from Blantyre, and reconnect with people on facebook and my beloved twitter. Since we’ve had no Internet to entertain us in the evenings [or anything else for the matter], Danni and I have been singing our way through every musical we have on Spotify.

I can’t believe we only have one more week left in Malawi – time flies! A week on Sunday we fly to Cape Town, and then to NYC via the UK for a few days to regroup and do some proper washing up!

Stay tuned to further chart our descent into happy madness.

Dan 

1 comment:

  1. Wonderful updates. Seriously humbling.

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