Gwilym's Adventure Blog

From 13th to 27th July I was in Malawi with Caroline Chisholm School undertaking some volunteering work and watersports. Over the 2 weeks when we were based at Butterfly Space we worked at a local school doing up 3 classrooms as well as visiting the school that we worked at 2 years ago . On our Rest Days with did some water sports with Monkey Business (Canoeing, Snorkeling and a Boat Trip to see the Fish Eagles) and Aqua Africa where the majority of students completed a Discover Scuba Diving whilst went with Tom who was already qualified on his first night dive. The next post will cover the Safari in Zambia

Over the last few weeks I have been away with Caroline Chisholm School in Malawi and Zambia. After what seemed like a very long time on a plane we arrived at  Mabuya Camp in Lilonwge for a night before we took the 7 hour road trip north to Nkhata Bay and our base at Butterfly Space . In order to settle in we visited Mzuzu for some shopping in a local market and visited a disabled project nearby. The students quickly adapted to the toilets with no flushes and the random power cuts. For fun we went on a boat trip to include feeding fish eagles, a trip to Kande Beach where some of the boys took a pedalo to the island 800m offshore and as there was not enough room on the small pedalo three of us swam out and back. We then undertook 5 days of volunteer work on a number of  projects including renovating 2 classrooms, running a sports day and making peanut butter and IT guides. The next R and R days we had kayaking and snorkelling and 15 st...