Well Hello again
Today our alarm rang at 5:30 am so we could make an escape to Blantyre for the day...Kate and I had to extend our visas at the embassy and Kelley had to come pay school fees for Mphatso and Ernest, two secondary school students who go to school at Matinde in Blantyre. The morning started out GREAT! We went to shop rite, got money from the ATM, then we started to make a plan for the afternoon...
Kelley dropped us off at the Embassy and went to go drive to Matinde with Mphatso. Kate and I went to the embassy (at 11:30 am) and they told us--oops it's lunch time until 1:30 (2 hours, duh), so we walked to Kip's, a pretty western restaurant in Blantyre for some lunch. On our way out of Kip's, Kelley calls us in a panic!!! She has driven an hour outside Blantyre (apparently everyone forgot to tell us that Matinde is actually an hour outside blantyre, not IN blantyre as we thought...such is the Malawian way) and her car has broken down because she tried to drive it on a bumpy dirt road! So now Kate and I are in an internet cafe, waiting to hear from her if she can get back to Blantyre to pick us up....or if we are stranded! After being in Malawi for 3 weeks, this doesn't even faze me. Nothing here goes according to plan, and everything takes the absolute longest time possible. Imagine how long it takes to accomplish any basic task--now multiply that by 4 and that's how long it takes to do it in Malawi! All we can do at this point it laugh.
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