Day 3 - YC Malawi 3rd Advance Trip Log (01 May)

Our flight plan this morning took us over France, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia before beginning the descent into Kenya. The airport is outside of Nairobi along a great flat green plain. We disembarked rather sleepily and stepped onto African soil. Mike was enjoying his first steps on the continent! It was good to be back for this my second visit! We were in the terminal for about three hours until the call came to board our last jet to Malawi. It however would travel first to Lusaka, Zambia, before heading east to Lilongwe. The flight plan this time allowed us to see Mount Kilimanjaro the highest elevation in Africa and still covered with snow! Early in the afternoon we descended onto the lush plain the airport is built upon and taxied beyond the terminal in sight of beautiful flowers and distant mountains. We had arrived!

After gathering our luggage including peanut butter, corned beef and Tims coffee for various friends, we met Tyler Woods, a missionary in Malawi, who kindly picked us up. We chatted en route to the Campbell’s- missionary folk from Trinidad and Tobago- with whom we would be staying. By the time we cleaned-up from over two days of travel we had to quickly run some errands before meeting with Pastor David Chigamba for an evening meeting. Tomorrow morning we will begin intensive training with YC volunteers from Malawi. It would be 2a local time before preparations were complete.