Hello everyone!   Sorry about the sparse posts recently but we were traveling this week.  On Monday we met up with Sam and M.K. in Lilongwe to help out with the ongoing CPAP project.  Over the last few days we’ve been to Kasungu, Machinga, Mwanza, and Blantyre!  It’s been really hectic but I really enjoyed getting to see other hospitals and other parts of the country.  After spending so much time in Namitete, where it is very rural, it’s been fun being in larger cities where they have things like restaurants!  We had forgotten what it was like to go out to eat and have 3G Internet.  It’s been a refreshing trip these last few days.

Getting to see other hospitals in the country was a really awesome experience.  It made me realize how small St. Gabriel’s is!  The hospitals we went to all seemed way bigger than St. Gab’s and even more shocking was the number of patients at the hospitals.  The district hospitals have so many more patients to take care of because they cover such a larger and more densely packed area.

Driving around the country we got to see what it was like in the southern region.  It’s so much colder!  It’s much more mountainous and rugged with some pretty serious terrain compared to the central region.  It’s also really green and looks very jungle-y.  The interesting thing about Malawi is that there are people everywhere.  In the many hours driving around the country I don’t think we saw a single stretch of land that didn’t have people living there.

Doesn’t it look like a jungle?!

We are staying in Blantyre for the weekend and will exploring the big city as much as we can while were here.  We will also be taking advantage of the resources in Blantyre and work on some projects that we still have in Namitete.  As fun as it has been getting to do some traveling, I will be excited to get back to home sweet Namitete this week and see our friends at St. Gab’s again!