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

A busy day starting with delivering some High Ropes and Low Ropes Training at Cannington Activity Centre followed by some staff observations at Bridgwater YMCA. Basically I have ben watching people work all day! This afternoon was some last minute packing and admin as I am off to Northampton tomorrow to meet with the group from Caroline Chisholm School who I will be joining in Malawi from Wednesday.

Yesterday and today I was at Grendon Hall with the group I will be taking to Malawi this summer.  It was good to finally meet the students and staff that I will be spending this summer with and we got lots of activities done over the 24 hours. It was also the first camping trip on the new bike. Good to know I can fit all my camping gear plus 5 different team building activities on it.

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...

This morning I flew out to Malawi working with Caroline Chisholm School for the next 3 1/2 weeks. There are 24 students, 4 staff plus myself going. We will be based at Butterfly Space and will also be visiting Zambia for safaris. I will post updates if I can and a report when I get back on 6th August.