No Baking

                After leaving Lifupa we stopped back at SAFI to pick up Nicolle and Camille to come to go to Lilongwe. Adam wasn’t feeling well so he stayed. While we were checking on Adam, we pulled out our cameras to take a picture of the sunset and the kids went nuts trying to get in the pictures. A couple even got hurt. One of the kids was carrying a baby on his back so I made sure to get a picture of it for Kelly.

Sunsets are so beautiful here

This is how everybody carries babies here. I've even seen some girls doing it with a doll

                In Lilongwe we had dinner at the Indian place we all like for Camille’s birthday. After dinner we wanted to get food from the grocery store for the rest of the weekend but everything was closed. Oh well. On Sunday we went to church which was really great. Nothing against the other churches we’ve visited but going back to an LDS church is just great. The members definitely noticed our absence. It’s nice to be missed. After church we just slept. On Monday, Camille and Nicolle went to Bunda College for a meeting for their project. The rest of us just hung out a Mabuya. Emily had a paper to work on and Whitney went back to SAFI Sunday to meet her friend Duhka so I was on my own for a while which meant a shower and napping. It felt good but yeah, nothing much going on.

                Tim’s flight also came in on Monday so Nicolle and Camille went to dinner with him and Dr. Johnston. Apparently it was really funny because Dr. Johnston and Tim are good friends. The rest of us would have gone but we had already ordered dinner a Mabuya before we knew they were coming back. You win some you lose some. On Tuesday Akim dropped off Dr. Johnston at the airport and then took us to the grocery store for lunch. We ended up buying lots of stuff because Adam wanted some food, we wanted food, we needed food for our runs this week and we just love shopping I guess. By the time we hit the road to go back to SAFI it felt like we were on a road trip with the car full of people and snacks. Last week I decided that I would get a nail file and clothespins at the store when we went on the weekend but when we got back to SAFI realized that I didn’t even think about it.

                While in Lilongwe, we got ingredients to make no-bake cookies for Camille. Whitney and I made them yesterday in the kitchen. We told Sarah, Bernadette and Aida that we wanted to make something and they got excited and watched us make it. When we were done we asked if they wanted the left over ingredients and the recipe and they were really happy to have them. We didn’t have anything to measure with so we did a lot of eyeballing. Whitney was worried that they wouldn’t turn out well because of that and we didn’t have a way to cool it down but they turned out awesome. Since Emily doesn’t like peanut butter we substituted it with hazelnut spread. She tried to pull her “try it sometime” trick on us but we didn’t fall for it and she ate some.

                 Today we started our run and it actually went really smoothly. There are still some things that can be improved upon but we actually finished before lunch. It was great. We are going to try to fit in two runs this week so here’s hoping we don’t have too much cloudy weather coming this way.