Workshop 3: Vanessa Crocker of St Peter's School paired with Malosa Anglican Secondary School. Goal: Sustainable Communities
Breakfast at Liwonde Safari Camp: Pancakes with honey. Tea.
Drove for approximately 40 minutes to Malosa Anglican Secondary School south of Liwonde were we were greeted by Father Howard acting headteacher of the school. It is a well looked after school where children seemed to have basic equipment and books. The classrooms had curtains and lights and numerous well watered trees and shrubs in the grounds. It has 800 boarding students and is partly self sufficient with plants, vegetables and chickens. Vanessa taught 34 kids on the sustainable cities and communities goal linked communities to the parts of the baobab tree. Each child made their own piece of the tree to be assembled to create a giant tree for display. Becci and Gaby did collage on the topic of culture, industrial landscapes and the river Exe.
After the workshop we drove further south and visited Zomba a mountainous, cool lake region which was clean and well developed with many colonial houses remaining.
Lunch: pumpkin soup and bread rolls. Sprite.
Purchases: wood carving of African figures, giraffe wood carving and 3 precious gem stones.
Drove home for approx 1.5 hours at approximately 4pm.
Dinner at Liwonde Safari Camp: vegetable samosas, salad and chips. Tea
We were the only visitors in camp that night which meant we were visited by a herd of elephants as they like it best when the camp is quiet. They stayed for at least 3 hours in the middle of the night which kept many of us awake as they tore branches off with their trunks and noisily drank water from the cool plunge pool.