Africa Journal Day 27, May 19

Thursday, May 19, 2005
Day 27
Lilongwe, Malawi

We spent most of today on the ABC Campus. I did some writing in the morning, followed by a personal consultation with one of the ABC staff. I trust I was able to be an encouragement to him.

In the afternoon, Dave, Joy and I went to Four Seasons, a plant nursery with several attached gift shops and a café. I enjoyed Malawian tea. It was a lovely little oasis with fountains and lovely lawns and shrubbery. Again, hardly what one thinks of in Africa. There certainly are more of these little getaways here than in West Africa.

In the evening, Andrew and I had supper with a neighbouring missionary family. We enjoyed our visit with them very much. They have been here just less than a year, and had shipped what sounds like all their household items in a container from the U.S. A large black mamba snake, said to be eight feet long, has been spotted in their yard, and their son set a trap with a live chicken to try to catch it. I will need to find out tomorrow if they were successful. Black mambas are deadly neurotoxic snakes; not something you want in your back yard. Apparently, there is also a three-foot monitor lizard making its home in a culvert. It only bothers the dogs by whacking them with its tail.