Field Trip Day

Together Mr. Zimba and I organized a great field trip for our students to Lilongwe, Malawi's capital city. In town, we visited Airtel Malawi, the nation's number one cell phone and internet provided. There we listened to employees from various departments talk about their jobs, training and education. We also took a tour of one of the cell phone towers and listened to an explanation of how the waves work to provide cellular service. Airtel was wonderful, they provided us with a lot of great information, food, drinks and t-shirts!!! It was a great trip and the students learned a ton. After Airtel, we walked through town to the Malawi National Library. There are three branches, one in each of the major cities. here all of the students were given a tour and explanation of all of the library's resources. Throughout the library we found lots of university students hard at work studying, I particularly enjoyed this because in my opinion it served as good motivation for my kids. "Just imagine," I told them, "if you pass your MSCE and go to university, you can read all of the books in this library every day!" From the library, we continues on to vies the Malawi Parliament building and then received a tour of the Kamuzu Banda monument, Dr. Banda was the first president of Malawi. All in all it was a wonderful day, enjoy the pictures below!!

Boy's Football Game

COS Date

It looks like my service in Malawi will officially come to a close on May 20th. I've got a lot of things to do before then and tons of people to say goodbye to. I still have several weeks of teaching inlcuding clubs, fields trips and sports to look forward to and also year three of Camp STAR!

As for future plans, I am looking forward to traveling to Tanzania and flying from there to India where I will meet my cousin Nicole for a week of travel and sight-seeing. From India, I will head to Australia, where my little sister is studying abroad. I'm looking forward to spedning a few weeks with her at her school and exploring the continent. All this means I should be home mid-June, probably on June 15th as long as my plane tickets work out the way I'd like them to.

I'm excited to have made these plans for home and am looking forward to a relaxing summer before starting a Master's in Public Health program this fall.

There's still lots for me to do over the next couple months and a ton of pictures to take. I'll be sure to keep the updates coming!!

Love and Good Thoughts,
Kelly

Pictures

Here are some of the pictures I promised in my last post! The kids hanging out aroudn my house, tree planting, Gwangwa Girls Club and computer class. Enjoy!!