shoprite

the other day was hatty's birthday, they served her a surprise cake at lunchtime, which she skillfully managed to split between 24 of us.



here's the bronze rooms. actual guinea pig hutch. and inside they look like cells.

then we took our first ever trip to shoprite, which is like the malawi asda. big mistake. im horrific in supermarkets, literally try to buy everything. as you'd know if you were with me when shopping for sweden or any halloween event.



this is me looking like a tool, walking to shoprite. we got heckled all the way. and wee kids come up to you to beg for money so its quite upsetting. i dont look upset because id only just left the hotel :] all smiles.



left to right, alison, mhairi, hatty



shoprite yaaaay. i have no pictures from outside because there were SOOO many hecklers and people and i felt like a tourist. this is some dried fish. all my shoprite pictures are like this.



the brand of coffee is named coffee, this had me laughing for hours. think im heatstroked.




THEY SELL CHICKENS FEET



this is our torrential rain, soooo heavy. and we always leave it too late to run back to our rooms so end up getting drenched. not funny.



we had a free afternoon yesterday so played in the pool. my SKILLED photography caught this bad boy shot [after about 60 tries]. this is rob jumping in the pool and catching the little rocket thing at the same time. im terrible at explaining.



anyhow, im leaving for dedza any minute now and have to go grab all my stuff. slept in as usual and had to rush my last proper shower. won't be able to post a blog until i go to lilongwe on a weekend, the internet in dedza is meant to be painfully slow and you have to pay per minute, so i doubt its happening. i have no patience.
if these pictures have gone stupidly big again then im sorry, i tried to fix them! i'll try and sort it out next time.

here's the only chichewa words i can remember after our extensive lessons:
moni bambo! [hello to a boy.] im going to succeed in dedza clearly.

miss you's all [some people here have never heard the word 'yous' before, i was like 'but what do you do if you're speaking to more than one person?" and then received an english lesson. advanced higher english obviously never registered in my head.] xx