Virgin Atlantic Airways
Flight Number: 0010
Begin: 05 Aug
Departure City: JFK Airport, New York, NY, USA
Time Of Departure: 09:45 PM
Arrival City: London Heathrow, United Kingdom
Time Of Arrival: 09:25 AM
Arrive: 06AUG07
Flight Number: 0601
Begin: 06 Aug
Departure City: London Heathrow, United Kingdom
Time Of Departure: 08:25 PM
Arrival City: Johannesburg, South Africa
Time Of Arrival: 08:30 AM
Arrive: 07AUG07
South African Airways
Flight Number: 0170
Begin: 07 Aug
Departure City: Johannesburg, South Africa
Time Of Departure: 10:20 AM
Arrival City: Lilongwe, Malawi
Time Of Arrival: 12:45 PM
South African Airways
Flight Number: 0171
Begin: 19 Aug
Departure City: Lilongwe, Malawi
Time Of Departure: 01:35 PM
Arrival City: Johannesburg, South Africa
Time Of Arrival: 04:05 PM
Virgin Atlantic Airways
Flight Number: 0602
Begin: 19 Aug
Departure City: Johannesburg, South Africa
Time Of Departure: 09:00 PM
Arrival City: London Heathrow, United Kingdom
Time Of Arrival: 06:55 AM
Arrive: 20AUG07
Begin: 20 Aug
Flight Number: 0003
Departure City: London Heathrow, United Kingdom
Time Of Departure: 09:30 AM
Arrival City: JFK Airport, New York, NY, USA
Time Of Arrival: 12:10 PM
Friday, May 4, 2007
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Who’s Traveling??
Here is a place for all of you who are going on the trip to write a few lines about yourself. Add it as a comment to this post.
Tentative Schedule
Here is an outline of the schedule for our time in Malawi. At this point, we have decided to have one general plan for the second week. You can see those details below. If you have other specific travel desires for that time, please be in touch with Masankho.
This schedule is tentative and subject to change.
Tuesday, August 7
arrive in Lilongwe between 11 am and 2 pm
afternoon rest and walk around crafts market near hotel for those who wish
dinner and entertainment
Wednesday, August 8
depart for Tukombo approximately 9 am
lunch enroute at Lake Side Inn
arrive Tukombo approximately 3 pm
afternoon welcome, evening dinner & first gathering
…………..
Thursday to Sunday noon, August 9-12
InterPlay & African Dance Untensive Tentative Schedule
8:30 am Breakfast
9:30 to 11:30 am InterPlay /African dance
12 to 3:30 pm Lunch break & swimming
4 to 6 pm InterPlay / African dance
6:30 pm Dinner
8 pm onwards Optional evening activities—storytelling, evening walks, dancing, etc.
…………..
Sunday, August 12
12 pm onwards—rest and other activities (horse riding, sailing, swimming, walking through the village, etc.)
Monday, August 13
Tour of the village, meeting the chief, visiting the school and crafts village
Tuesday, August 14
Different options for going deeper with village dancers, healers, chief, craftspeople, fishermen, etc
Wednesday, August 15
Day of celebration—three parties all rolled into one: Feroza's birthday is August 8 (Masankho’s daughter), Masankho's birthday is August 15 and Feroza and Travis will also celebrate their wedding blessings which were on April 14. Experience a true village celebration.
Thursday, August 16
Depart for a tour of Nkhata Bay—District headquarters and site where 59 people died during the struggle for Independence in the late ’50s early ’60s and also the earliest missionaries from Scotland settled here
Dinner and entertainment in Tukombo (Sshhhh! It’s a secret! Dinner will be a 45th wedding aniversary party for my parents that my sister and I are planning.)
Friday, August 17
9 am leave for Kasungu National Park with a stop for lunch on the way
3 pm arrive in Kasungu and rest for the afternoon
6 pm animal drive around the park
8 pm dinner
Saturday, August 18
5 am animal drive around the park
8 am breakfast
10 am leave for Lilongwe
12 pm lunch in Lilongwe at my Cousins
afternoon tour of Lilongwe and last opportunity to shop
Sunday, August 19
9 am breakfast
11 am leave for airport
This schedule is tentative and subject to change.
Tuesday, August 7
arrive in Lilongwe between 11 am and 2 pm
afternoon rest and walk around crafts market near hotel for those who wish
dinner and entertainment
Wednesday, August 8
depart for Tukombo approximately 9 am
lunch enroute at Lake Side Inn
arrive Tukombo approximately 3 pm
afternoon welcome, evening dinner & first gathering
…………..
Thursday to Sunday noon, August 9-12
InterPlay & African Dance Untensive Tentative Schedule
8:30 am Breakfast
9:30 to 11:30 am InterPlay /African dance
12 to 3:30 pm Lunch break & swimming
4 to 6 pm InterPlay / African dance
6:30 pm Dinner
8 pm onwards Optional evening activities—storytelling, evening walks, dancing, etc.
…………..
Sunday, August 12
12 pm onwards—rest and other activities (horse riding, sailing, swimming, walking through the village, etc.)
Monday, August 13
Tour of the village, meeting the chief, visiting the school and crafts village
Tuesday, August 14
Different options for going deeper with village dancers, healers, chief, craftspeople, fishermen, etc
Wednesday, August 15
Day of celebration—three parties all rolled into one: Feroza's birthday is August 8 (Masankho’s daughter), Masankho's birthday is August 15 and Feroza and Travis will also celebrate their wedding blessings which were on April 14. Experience a true village celebration.
Thursday, August 16
Depart for a tour of Nkhata Bay—District headquarters and site where 59 people died during the struggle for Independence in the late ’50s early ’60s and also the earliest missionaries from Scotland settled here
Dinner and entertainment in Tukombo (Sshhhh! It’s a secret! Dinner will be a 45th wedding aniversary party for my parents that my sister and I are planning.)
Friday, August 17
9 am leave for Kasungu National Park with a stop for lunch on the way
3 pm arrive in Kasungu and rest for the afternoon
6 pm animal drive around the park
8 pm dinner
Saturday, August 18
5 am animal drive around the park
8 am breakfast
10 am leave for Lilongwe
12 pm lunch in Lilongwe at my Cousins
afternoon tour of Lilongwe and last opportunity to shop
Sunday, August 19
9 am breakfast
11 am leave for airport
Malawi!
In the office every day there are emails and pone calls and time and energy being spent on the GREAT MALAWI INTERPLAY Adventure. That means that every day we are in the spirit of Africa. For me this is a return to Africa. In 1978 I traveled to Sierra Leone with a group from the States to participate in Operation Crossroads Africa. In the little village of Taiama I encountered traditional African arts, Muslim prayer, Christian church and the coming out ceremony of village girls. The masked Bundu Spirit prevailed in raffia and dance as the village took flight in dance. I was technically there to help build a cultural history museum protecting the traditional ways. Even then I could feel African practices and western technologies and values colliding. But what I took away was so much more.
I am pretty sure that African ancestry took root in me. So when I saw Masankho come through door into my class at Pacific School of Religion in the nineties, both he and I felt a strange recognition. Grace! My Brother!
In truth that journey to Sierra Leone troubled my Euro-American waters in the deepest way. I was depth charged, depth changed. As much as by the African Americans who were my travel companions newly sprung from the black power movement in the US as by Africa itself. It took me until early 2000 to begin to reconcile the difficulties I inherited in that first trip.
To be returning to Africa in partnership with Masankho, to be going back with much more integration and practice around my racial, sexual and the spiritual identity in InterPlay WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING ONCE AGAIN. Africa in some way is home, mother, and like the goddess, a forgotten Mother at that. I look forward to kissing her feel with my InterPlay community.
More to follow... Ashe Cynthia
I am pretty sure that African ancestry took root in me. So when I saw Masankho come through door into my class at Pacific School of Religion in the nineties, both he and I felt a strange recognition. Grace! My Brother!
In truth that journey to Sierra Leone troubled my Euro-American waters in the deepest way. I was depth charged, depth changed. As much as by the African Americans who were my travel companions newly sprung from the black power movement in the US as by Africa itself. It took me until early 2000 to begin to reconcile the difficulties I inherited in that first trip.
To be returning to Africa in partnership with Masankho, to be going back with much more integration and practice around my racial, sexual and the spiritual identity in InterPlay WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING ONCE AGAIN. Africa in some way is home, mother, and like the goddess, a forgotten Mother at that. I look forward to kissing her feel with my InterPlay community.
More to follow... Ashe Cynthia
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