Back to Malawi

I want to go hitch hiking because I already experienced so much trouble with public transport, but we find a direct bus to Tete in one day. From there I can easily go to Blantyre in Malawi. I am a bit in a rush because I will start working at St. Lukes Hospital the fourth of January but with this schedule I will make it. When the bus arrives it is full so we will get another bus in Inchope according to our driver. I was in Inchope before after my 24 hour chappa adventure so I felt that this could go wrong. In Inchope they arrange a chappa to Chimoio for us, where we will be dropped at the office of the bus company. At the office they tell me to wait because maybe a bus will come. After a few hours I get angry and try to get a part of my money back. They tell me to come back the next day. In the end this is still Africa and when things seem to go smoothly you always have to be prepared that it will not work out the way you planned it to be. Uli is staying in Chimoio so I can sleep in her room. We find a Lebanese restaurant with a very friendly owner where we eat shawarma and fattoush. When we leave he offers us falafel and bread with zatar for breakfast for the next day. He tells us that he used to own a few shops in Beirut but that everything was gone in one second during the war. In 2006 he came to Mozambique and started a restaurant: the shawarma castle. The next day I travel to Malawi, take a taxi from the border to Blantyre because again the travelling is not according to my plans. In Blantyre I meet another intern Nicole. From here Charles (the custom) brings us to our new home in Malosa.