capemac

after zambia and some horrible bus journeys, we got to south luwanga and were planning to go to the national park, but it was raining so much that if we'd headed to the national park we would have got trapped there because the river would have flooded its banks.
so we left and went to lilongwe a day earlier. and did the same as the week before, hung out with prosper, blessing and co and went shopping :]


after a couple of days in lilo we headed to cape maclear. since we're soooo gap year right now, me, jessy, george, rob and the nkhoma girls all got in the back of our new friend reggie's pick-up truck and drove there that way. most amazing journey ever. we stopped at a random market to get some tomatoes and luca had bought a zambian cd so we were all dancing on the back of the pick-up and all the villagers came out and danced with us.

we got to capemac [gaia lodge] at night and just chilled out. then the next day chilled out some more on the beach and caught up on tanning. i made bomas with the kitchen staff at gaia, who asked me if i was married...
that night we had a BBQ on the beach, where some kids came and played drums and we danced with them and sang this song where you make a circle and take it in turns to go dance in the middle. some of the kids are just insanely good dancers.
there are a lot of vendors at the lake who sell bracelets and stuff, so we had been hanging out with them all day [one was called snoop, i kept introducing him as snoop dogg, there was also a kingston a.k.a. sean kingston] and at night we went to a local bar called hiccups. really good night and made a ton more friends, though i dont know how i didnt get a slap since i kept asking them to go find me ne-yo.


the next day we took a boat ride out to a little private sort of beach island, and just chilled out in the lake. xzibit [whose real name i cant remember] came out with us and was telling us his uncle was obama, sister was beyonce and his dad was george bush... think he was a bit out of it. we had a BBQ again and then came back home and were very sunstroked so just chilled in the hammocks and went to bed.
on our last day i was sooo sad to leave gaia lodge, they all said they'd miss us and the kitchen staff gave me a bag of cookies for free and a hug[!]. then i bought about 50 bracelets, anklets, necklaces and chitenje's and we headed back into a pick-up truck [just 3 of us this time because some had stayed an extra day]. they'd put mattresses in this time so we just lay back and enjoyed the ride, watching the nicest sunset ever.


im back in dedza now and back to school - gutted. but we're doing something special this weekend. i'll try and update sooooon.