Trip to SA

Yes, I am getting ready for the trip to South Africa (SA), and is quite exciting!! You cannot imagine how many things I have to do there; many friends are passing me requests, from watches to repair to computers (!) because SA sounds like a muzungu paradise with shops and everything that you cannot find here. I am not even sure if I am ready for an overdose of “western civilization” after living in Malawi for the last 8 months now, but I am ready for the test.

 

It will be one week of hard work; we have loads of seminars and poster presentations. I hope my poster is going to be ok, because I have done an awful lot of work! The meeting is about infectious diseases, I mentioned it before, and is going to happen in Hermanus, a town by the sea that is supposed to be a paradise for whale-watching, but is not the right time of the year.. Just to make you jealous http://www.advancedsummerschool.org.za/

 

We are also planning to do some sightseeing, I have delayed my flight a couple of days and Eliya, a local participant, has kindly organized a complete tour of Cape Town.

But of course, there will be tension until the last moment, the college was going to provide me transport to Lilongwe airport but I just talked to the transport officer and he had not received any notifications yet… Malawian communications at its best.