Friday, 8 August 2008

My parents are in Africa!

Yes, my parents and their three friends arrived almost two weeks ago
to Lilongwe, and we traveled together in the center and south of
Malawi. Now they are somewhere in Zambia, in a tour organised to
Victoria Falls. their phones don't work and I cannot contact them, but
I suppose they are doing well.. I will meet them in lilongwe before
they come back to Spain.
I was quite scared about their visit, as I mentioned before they don't
speak a word of english. Only spanish, (but very loud!). My fear
became true when they arrived without any luggage. They were supposed
to pick up their bags in Johannesburg before catching the plane to
Lilongwe but they didn't know it.. At the beginning they were quite
stressed. The poverty of Malawi hits your eyes and brain.. but in a
few days they got used to the landscape and the friendliness of the
people and everything went very well.

Next week I'll take a few days off to go to the north with Ivonne, and
after that she will be leaving, back to the UK. It's going to be a bit
weird for me, staying here without her, but I don't think I'm ready to
leave the job at the moment, or live in the rich part of the planet.
If everything goes as I plan, I won't be back in Europe until May next
year, for the wedding of my sister (family pressure!) and that could
be (may be) the end of my Malawian life..

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