End of week 1

Hi everyone,

Back from Safari - saw elephants, hippos, water buck, antelopes etc. Good weekend made a bit stressful due to broken tent, but great to see all the animals!

We are both looking forward to getting stuck into the orphanage work this week and have been planning some ideas for resources that we are going to make and leave with the orphanage teachers when we go. Quite a lot of people in Malawi only have quite a superficial understanding of English as they only learn set phrases, largely through repetition. One of the orphanages we are working at is run by a local woman in her back yard (with about 40 3-5 year olds) and we're going to do our best to help her with some ideas as her English is quite poor, although she does a great job using the few songs and games that she does know in English. We're also continuing with the building work in the afternoons and I am taking training sessions with 2 football teams this week...

That's probably about it for now, we're just waiting to be called for our tea. The food at the house is lovely - prepared by 2 cooks, Saul and Computer - and is predominantly meat and rice or noodles. Not much veg! While we were on safari, we were looked after by Gibson, who also works for MVO and he prepared fantastic meals for us: pork and lamb last night, sausage and bacon this morning!

Am missing being able to keep up to date with Cambridge's pre-season progress, but other than that all's well!

Lots of love,

Andy and Amy