Day 10 in the Dreams and Teams House- Lindsay & Kirsty =)

Today is our 10th day here in Malawi and we're itching to move to Mvuu on Saturday morning to go on our safari's. Once again most of our morning was spent at Chipasula however we made a slight detour today. We randomly decided to stop at the nearby primary school to visit the children we have driven past each day. After being greeted by the headteacher and handing over football strips from Rosebank Primary School, we whipped the parachute out- as we do- and managed to attract a posse of 2000 pupils. Have you ever seen 2000 people trying to fit round a parachute?? It's mayhem, infact some older pupils were literally whipping the younger ones out of the way with sticks as they were crowding around us...it was unbelievable. Lindsay has it all on camera, is that a good thing?

After our short visit we proceeded to the high school to begin our health fair. Each of us were split into groups of two or three to focus on different health issues. We tackled malaria, while Judith, Danielle and Caitlin handled HIV and AIDS. Nurse Chloe gained some hands on experience with Lauren when taking the blood pressure of the Malawian pupils and teachers. Ryan and Dayne experienced lots of exaggeration while testing fitness levels with a couper run, now called the mcdasher run! Elizabeth also experienced exaggeration with speed bouncing! While Callum measure standing long jump. Meanwhile Calum, Mark and Duncan with some help from Sheena attempted to educate the Malawian pupils on healthy eating but ended up having a snack or two too many, it looked like a snack bar to us (and not a healthy one!).

Before leaving the school this afternoon the Malawians performed a series of plays, recited poems and danced for us in their hall. To be honest the rudeness and ignorance shown by the pupils watching was disgraceful. Despite being told several times to calm down and be quiet they continued to hackle and 'mouth off' in front of their fellow friends, the performers.

After leaving the school we returned to Heuglin's for lunch and had a lazy afternoon, with some people sunbathing and others watching Venus stroll through to the Wimbeldon final. We had another new experience for Kirsty tonight - She ate a steak- and Duncan actually finished his dinner for once tonight (before everyone had received their pudding!). Talk about a record. Maclennan and Ryan are sitting behind us now having a rematch at scrabble with Calum trying to regain his 500 kwacha which Ryan won last night. Meanwhile the rest of us are practing Auld Lang Syne (which some of us are having trouble remembering the second verse of, so it is currently being written on big posters.) and the Malawian national anthem for our cultural day tomorrow. "Oh God Bless Our Land Of Malawi..."

Has anybody ever told Sheena she has a beautiful voice? -Tone deaf if so.

That's all folks, we hope it's raining in Narnia. Bye for now, L & K xxxx