We meet with the teachers at Rosie's school and handed over form 2 and form 4 text books to some very happy teachers. Up until this point they only had one text book per subject that the teacher used. Chalk is still the means to communicate ideas. They have received American texts in the past but they did not match the Malawian cirriculum so have not been used.
Even though it was school holidays there was a fairly good tun out of local children to sing and dance and say thank you.
We drove north to the disputed Tanzanian border crossing over the Songwe River, enroute we stopped at Karonga so that Rosie could buy some more dyed cloth and run out our kwacha's.
On arrival at the border it turn out that the customs officials were not happy with the documentation that we had for taking the rental car across the border. Initially they stated that we must drive back to Mzuzu to obtain an Interpol document. This was just the beginning of a fun time crossing the border. Some 4 hours, 5 documents and 20 stamps later we made it into Tanzania. Again we arrived late at our destination but to our amazement and relief the lodge was prepared to serve food at 10 pm at night.
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