The Ubuntu Malawi team is in Johannesburg, South Africa for an overnight lay-over - arrives about 9 pm Tue local time -  flying out totorrow at 10 am - only a couple more hours in the air and we will be in Blantyre, Malawi to begin our time "in-country". The travel has gone very well so far but we left Calgary at 3 pm Monday - midnight Malawi time and now some 23 hours later a bed feels great!

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