We're back in Lilongwe, where our Malawian adventure began a month and a half ago, enroute to Zambia tomorrow morning. With any luck, we'll see elephants, giraffes, hippos and, fingers crossed here, a lion or two.
We spent most of Saturday at Annie and Fred's wedding, and Sunday laboring over our list of scholarship applicants and referrals, deciding how best to disburse the funds you contributed. When we return from Zambia, we'll finalize the list and transfer funds to the various school accounts, making our dream of the last year a reality. We'll include a summary of that list in the next post.
Tonight, we're in the decidedly un-African environs of the Korea Gardens Lodge in Lilongwe. The muzac in the outdoor restaurant caters to the mostly-mzungu (white) clientele, and while its charms are many, Korea Gardens feels like an island apart from the rest of Malawi.
But this night still contains a lot of magic as I sit here in the outdoor restaurant at 9 o'clock, white lights twinkling in the trees and bushes around the perimeter, clicking away at the keys and accessing the wireless network to finally send along some photos as promised previously. The photo with this post shows a group of young people in an HIV/AIDS prevention group that Mary Ellen has been working with making place mats of banana fiber which will be sold to benefit Orphan Care.
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