IN MALAWI!

I'm finally here! It feels like forever ago that I left my parents with a teary goodby at the airport. Henry was there too of course but he wasn't so important, his parting words were "I want a sandwich".

Since then I have been having the time of my life, starting with the 8 hour plane journey where I heard the Lidl song whose lyrics include "One day I went to Lidl, I went to shoplift in Lidl. One day I went to Asda, I went to shoplift in Asda." It was truly beautiful. The travelling did take a very very long time, but we ended up in Business class on our half hour flight from Lilongwe (the capital of Malawi) to Blantyre, where I am now but Nancy and I are leaving tomorrow morning to head down to Nsanje where we will be for the next 11 months. Nsanje is right in the south of Malawi and everytime we tell people where we're going they all say "It's hot there"! so I have a feeling we're going to boil, but I'm sure we'll get used to it. It'll be fine as ever!

I'm having the time of my life, learning some Chichewa (mulibwanji!) and just getting to know so many people. Everyone is ridiculously friendly here and loves to stop and chat for a while. I have already fallen in love with Malawi, which I'm sure you will gather over the next few blog updates! I have so many stories that I don't have time to put on here but which I will write about another time or tell you all about when I'm back. You'll be sick of Malawi by the time I'm through talking!

Lots of love to you all,
Chloe xxxx