Monday Monday

Last night we had a great dinner with Gome Mkandawire and his wife Susan at our favorite Indian restaurant.  Not a lot of Malawians are adventurous enough to try foods that are different, but we are going again tonight to "stock up" on different foods as we will be back to rice, chicken, tomato and greens again tomorrow.

Today has been a bit relaxed as we have no where to travel and will not start our project until tomorrow probably.  The challenges of the day have been - no hot water this morning for a shower, and this afternoon there was water running out of the ceiling in the hallway, no electricity and no internet at our hotel.

We've been sitting at an internet cafe, a new one which is quite nice and in trying to charge my laptop while we sit here, my plug with the adaptor won't stay in the wall tight enough to charge so I now have my chair jammed up against it.  Soon it will be dark and we'll head home to our hotel where we hope to have electricity.

In the meantime here are a couple of more photos from yesterday.  Tomorrow we move to a small guesthouse in a small town about 10 miles away where we may or may not have hot water and don't know how far we will need to walk to find internet.

So in the meantime since I couldn't post these on the last update here are a couple of more photos from yesterday.

People gathering on the lawn at Nkhoma's

Matiya and Mariya Nkhoma joining in the traditional dancing.  I was hoping to post a video but the internet speed won't allow it. 

Nelson Nkhoma, our PhD student in Minnesota joining in the dancing.