Some Days Bad - Some Days Good - This Was A Good One

It has been said that a Malawian seems to have all of time in the world. If that is true then there is no time for the rest of us and that is why we can’t seem to keep up. Or at least that sounds reasonable to me.

Tuesday started off in a blinding blizzard of speed. Up at 5:15 AM (they get up early here and at 5:15 AM most of you in the west are still in bed or just getting to bed.) I enjoy sending you emails at that time because I get all caught up while you are sleeping. Too, I can send an email to yesterday, and you can write back to tomorrow when we do it at 5:30 in the morning.

For breakfast I made egg sandwiches and tea, and we were off and running. Suzi taught the women at the pre-natal clinic at 8:30, and I transferred food from the warehouse to the house for the Thiesens, ourselves and Tom when he gets here, then took pictures of the workmen who are digging up the soil for the foundation for the new kitchen.

At 10:00 AM representatives from the District Health Office in Zomba came to inspect the Namikango Mission and talk with us about giving supplies to Zomba Central Hospital. This went on until noon when we went up the mission house to rest and have lunch.

It was really exciting when we got to the house because we had received a large amount of food on the shipment yesterday from the Lebanon Church of Christ. We, and the Thiesen family, were like kids in a candy shop with all of the food. We spread all of the food out on the floor all over the main room and just stared at it.

Shortly after lunch cases of library books were brought up from the shipment, and a large number of books were added to the library at Namikango Mission for use by the students in the school there.

Then around 1 PM representatives from St. John’s Hospital northeast of Zomba came to discuss receiving medical supplies and approval on both sides was quickly established. A truck will return tomorrow to obtain a large number of supplies for that facility.

At 3 PM the District officers from Zomba returned for the inspection of the medical warehouse. It didn’t take long for a very through inspection and evaluation to take place. They too accepted the offer of medical supplies from the Project, and quickly started loading their Land Rover with cases of supplies, promising to return tomorrow for more. They advised us they would immediately begin distributing these supplies to medical facilities all over Zomba District.

It has been a good day.