Sunday, January 20, 2008

Well, we are definately in the rainy season here in Malawi - our daily downpour is still going on, but we have camped out at the wireless-enabled restaurant/lodge just down the street from our (not as nice) guesthouse.
Our weekend has been pleasant - after being busy on Saturday, we intended to have a lzy Sunday...but ended up walking downtown to see if we coul dfind fabric for Regan's school uniform (they are out of them and we have to get one custom made!). Anywasy, we learned that most shops are closed on Sundays, but did find where the tailors and fabric are for later.
After a very long walk, we decided to fork out 500 kwatchas each to go in the pool at the lodge down the road (where I now sit), but the rains beat us, and it is no longer hot enough for us to part with the $10, so we just ordered food and a few kuche kuche's (local beer) and are using the free wireless we get as a result.
I am trying to upload an image, but no luck so far, so this might be blank also...
We were at the market both today and yesterday...it is totally great....yesterday for only $900 kwatcha ($6.50) we got a bottle of vinegar and 4 bottles of beer (from the groc store) and 11 mangoes, 2 avacoado, a bag of garlic, 6 carrots and 6 tomatoes.
The market is a busy place, full of friendly malawians and many mzungus (us).
Anyways - I was trying to upload an image (again) but no luck so far - eventually I will find a way to update flickr at least.

Hope all is well - talk to you soon!!!

Janna

2 comments:

cinnamon gurl said...

Ack! I'm dying for photos... any from the market?!?

Sounds lovely, apart from the rain. It feels like -30 here with the wind chill.

Anonymous said...

Hi Janna, Jules and Regan. Thanks for posting updates so regularly. It's great to hear how you're doing.....I miss you already!!

Kate is right, it's bloody cold here and I'm very jealous of you. Hopefully you get the photo thing worked out, would love to see pictures.

Take care,

Janette