All Good Things Must Come to an End

All Good Things Must Come to an End by Alex C

The last day at Mvuu camp was started with a full group drive around the park. The main part of our trip was occupied by a crocodile being intimidated by 4 hippos and many more hippos in the water. We spent around 15 mins watching our encounter and we were all eager to see the next stages. It was a great experience that many of us will not see again. 

This amazing experience was later followed by lunch which consisted of hake and spinach and lemon pasta. It was a great morning and we were all looking forward to meeting up with Chacko and Andrew. The boat journey was short lived as Chacko and Andrew were waving us over. We soon made it to the other side which was a sad moment this was because we were leaving all the animals and hot showers behind. The start was soon delayed as Neils forgot his headphones but this was not an issue as we had loads of things to talk about to Andrew and Chacko. 

During the drive we stopped off at a larger more intimidating carvers. Here it was larger, louder, more intimidating but thankfully cheaper. It found many new items that may be one of your presents soon. Euan bought a large photo of an elephant, it was very similar to the one that chassed the bus near the watering hole. We got to the Grace Bandawe centre where we were staying our last night and quickly turned around to go to dinner. 

Mr Boyd had hooked up with a BB company in Blantyre and we got a chance to speak with the boys. It was great to see how different and how similar their BB company was. They have only been going for just over a year so were looking for loads of ideas. The came in wearing BB hats that they had actually made. We are hoping that we will be able to send over some resources to them so that they can have some more parts of their uniform. We got into the restaurant just as Andy Murray played his last point at Wimbledon. The rest of the guests of the restaurant must have wondered what was going on with all the commotion. Some of us stayed in the restaurant and some went hope to get bags packed for departure day.

The next day we had a good breakfast and then got our bags all packing into the trailer. We then presented Andrew and Chacko with some gifts including kilts and Project Malawi T Shirts. They were brilliant and really looked after us. 

We then stopped off at shop rite to buy some goodies for the flight and spend our last Kwatcha. When we arrived at the airport we waved Chacko and Andrew off and then went to security was just inside the small room. Once everyone passed security we had to check in which was a lot harder than it seemed. It took us around 1hrs and 30 mins which was only 30 mins before our plane took off. Most of us got patted down in the airport but we were all clear. The Malawi to Jo’burg flight was only 2 hrs long which was very short compared to our flight to Heathrow. Now we are all in Heathrow airport sitting, waiting to board or flight hoping that we will see all the mums and dads very soon. It’s been a great adventure.