Another Brick In The Wall

Another Brick In The Wall
Originally uploaded by yo_paully.

Most of us spent day our working with brick again, laying and mortaring as well as separating and stacking. Dana, Paul, Dale, and Rivcah all separated and stacked the bricks. Julia was painting with Pat in the morning and stacking bricks later. Tova was mixing the mortar for the brick. Bob went into town with JR. Today was a great communication day, we really connected with some of the workers and shared stories about family, friends, sports and our countries.

Ann had a different experience going to a school for the blind, about an hour and a half away. She brought vegetables and meat for the students from the butcher shop. She took a number of pictures at the shop... very different from the Loblaws shopping experience. They also visited a government school for all students which had a lot of blind children. One interesting thing that was there, was that they had a number of Albino kids that have brown markings on their faces which was cancer, as if they didn't have enough challenges already.

We had a short day and took part of the afternoon to individually reflect and process all that we've seen and experienced this past week. We've all learned so much and have been touched on many levels.

Later in the day we visited an outside mall, which is rare in this part of Africa. The mall was in a compound, which is an example of the separation in classes in Malawi. The rich shop in places like this, the poor (majority) go to the markets.

For dinner, we had a BBQ with some other Canadian missionaries. There are 8 Canadian families who are based in Lilongwe all doing various kinds of missionary work in Malawi.

Tomorrow is a day off, we will be going to Lake Malawi, one of the largest markets in Africa. It will be an early morning... Good Night.