Malawi facts and figures

  • 2 million orphans
  • 500 Kwacha = $3.30 CAD
  • Life Expectancy 37 - new info
  • Official language - English
  • Location - South East Africa; 3 borders, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique
  • Population 14,000,000
  • Time Zone +6

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Firsts

this is my list of firsts;
- travelling in a 12 pax mini bus with 18 and a live chicken
- putting the pigs back in the pen on my way to the pit latrine (while at work)
- making videos of the children at the orphanage and being mobbed when I showed them the footage
- swimming in Lake Malawi
- working in an "office" with no electricity, internet, phone line
- working in an organization where everyone is a volunteer with no visable means of support
- saw a hippo in the wild
- ate goat
- ate nsima
- ate guppies (or at least their cousins)
- woken everyday by the call to prayer
- buying my units for the phone off the street
- flashing to save units
- running a strat plan meeting with a Chechewa translator
- selling timber
- climb Mt. Mulanje
- visited a tea plantation

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