weekend

I was doing so well at keeping up the blog and now it’s been almost 3 weeks…here we go to get back into it.

A weekend at home—we went for a walk through some villages. We just started walking down a road and kept on going. We were followed by Shadow and Sarky (2 dogs that like to come visit our house) we don’t mind having the dogs but the Malawians are scared of dogs. Sadly the dogs don’t listen when we tell them to go home. And today they decided to chase goats as we walked to the river. Not nice for the goats though the dogs just wanted to get a rise out of the goats. If the goats ignored them they lost interest quickly.

When we got back we found that while Dorothy was in the kitchen some kids had come into the living room and taken a small pretty wallet and the candy that had been on the table. We figure it was kids as all our electronics (ipods, cell phones, and computer) were also in the room and all still there. Not a good feeling to know someone has been in and taken things. We are much more careful now about keeping the doors shut when we aren’t in the room. The kids were getting much more aggressive as well—pushing their way into the kitchen while Rhona was cooking and then yelling at Maralyse when she told them it was time to go home. (we haven’t seen them for a while now which is a relief)

Sunday we got a ride in another direction to go swimming at a waterfall. 40 minute drive (11 of us in a jeep) then 40 minute walk followed by at least 20 kids (who pointed us in the right direction on occasion). The river was up and the waterfall was powerful with spray that wet the rocks just enough to make them slippery. Climb up and jump off to be whisked downstream. There is a high jump spot and a higher jumping spot…I did them both though convincing myself to actually jump was a little difficult (climbing back down would have been very difficult.