Feb 24th
Woke up this morning and after getting ready for the day, packed up my suitcase to get ready for the big move to the Ksasa club. Davison had talked to the manager yesterday, and was able to book us in there for Thursday and Friday nights accommodation. As Brad and I are having breakfast, the cell phone rings, and it is the manager from the Kasasa club informing us that he can only get us in for Thursday (which is what the desk clerk and told Brad and I when we asked about it at Noon yesterday), but not on Friday. We said to forget it, as we will stay where we are, although it is not real convenient for Davison to pick us up and drop us off each day. It is quite a bit further than the Ksasa club where we have been going for lunch each day. We are quite happy where we are, the view is great, the meals are excellent, and staff at the Ngala lodge treat us really well. The benefits at Ksasa are 1) a lot closer to the SACCO office, 2) Air conditioning, and 3) Television in the rooms. On the 3rd point, we do have a big screen TV here, but when I asked at the bar about going to the TV room, the bartender looked at me as if I was crazy, and the owners were away for the night…$%&(&^*%. Excuse the language, but I wanted to catch some of the Olympics. I did read via TSN sports on the Internet that Canada Men’s curling team won all their round robin games, and that the Women were 8-1. Today we mainly spent going over some operations with Davison, and working on the report back to the Board tomorrow at 5 PM. We will be giving the report at the SACCO and then going to the Ksasa club for supper. In the afternoon we got a tour of the Ethanol Plant by Felix Mulenga, Quality Controller (and some of his staff) for the Ethanol Company Ltd, which is only a short distance from the SACCO. We were told how the process works from start to finish and got some great pictures from the top platform where the distilling process takes place. Sorry about not being able to post any pictures as yet, but maybe I will have better luck when we get to Lilongwe.
Forgot to mention that there was storm near Dwangwa last night that poured down on the area (but missed us at the Lodge), and it made it too muddy to take a tour of the sugar cane factory. The storm has washed out the Highway South to Salema (A resort and trading centre on the Lake), where we are heading on Saturday for one night and then back to Lilongwe for the duration of our stay. The road being out, means we will have to go around by Lilongwe which is 6 hrs instead of 3...bedtime!
Woke up this morning and after getting ready for the day, packed up my suitcase to get ready for the big move to the Ksasa club. Davison had talked to the manager yesterday, and was able to book us in there for Thursday and Friday nights accommodation. As Brad and I are having breakfast, the cell phone rings, and it is the manager from the Kasasa club informing us that he can only get us in for Thursday (which is what the desk clerk and told Brad and I when we asked about it at Noon yesterday), but not on Friday. We said to forget it, as we will stay where we are, although it is not real convenient for Davison to pick us up and drop us off each day. It is quite a bit further than the Ksasa club where we have been going for lunch each day. We are quite happy where we are, the view is great, the meals are excellent, and staff at the Ngala lodge treat us really well. The benefits at Ksasa are 1) a lot closer to the SACCO office, 2) Air conditioning, and 3) Television in the rooms. On the 3rd point, we do have a big screen TV here, but when I asked at the bar about going to the TV room, the bartender looked at me as if I was crazy, and the owners were away for the night…$%&(&^*%. Excuse the language, but I wanted to catch some of the Olympics. I did read via TSN sports on the Internet that Canada Men’s curling team won all their round robin games, and that the Women were 8-1. Today we mainly spent going over some operations with Davison, and working on the report back to the Board tomorrow at 5 PM. We will be giving the report at the SACCO and then going to the Ksasa club for supper. In the afternoon we got a tour of the Ethanol Plant by Felix Mulenga, Quality Controller (and some of his staff) for the Ethanol Company Ltd, which is only a short distance from the SACCO. We were told how the process works from start to finish and got some great pictures from the top platform where the distilling process takes place. Sorry about not being able to post any pictures as yet, but maybe I will have better luck when we get to Lilongwe.
Forgot to mention that there was storm near Dwangwa last night that poured down on the area (but missed us at the Lodge), and it made it too muddy to take a tour of the sugar cane factory. The storm has washed out the Highway South to Salema (A resort and trading centre on the Lake), where we are heading on Saturday for one night and then back to Lilongwe for the duration of our stay. The road being out, means we will have to go around by Lilongwe which is 6 hrs instead of 3...bedtime!
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