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Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Goodbye Scotland

My time in Scotland has been so far good and I have injoyed.It is a great experience in my life and now I want to express my stay here in Scotland. I have proved that Scotland is a beaultiful country with friendly peaple. My host family were so friendly to me and there were treating me as their on son, they kept me with all their hearts, even the children & the relatives of Mr & Mrs Oneill were so good to me and I have injoyed with them. They have spent much on me which I can not repay, on all these I say yewo chomene(thank you)

I would like to thank Mr & Mrs OneilI for the wonderful job they have done to me, they fed me, may God bless u, my Scotish mum & Dad, Craig & Kaylay and all the relatives of Mr & Mrs Oneill, I reary enjoyed with you & life was so cool.

I would like also to thank the Headteacher, Miss Bernadette and the entere Staff & Pupils of St Matthews Academy & also without forgating all the 10 Catholic Primary Schools, for you provide School fees to some of us at St Peters Catholic Secondary School in Mzuzu, u provided School blocks and the desks even the Rab materials to our School, we are proud of you & its our prayer that this relationship should exist up to the end of the world, Yewo chomene chiuta wa mutumbikeni ( God bless u friends ).

I would like to say good bye to the entere St Matthews acedemy and to everyone in Scotland as we are going back home tomorrow.....................

Its Me Jocker Boy
Harris Khembo

Tuesday, 30 March 2010

LOVELY DAYS IN SCOTLAND

It is time to pack up and go back to Malawi. We are very grateful indeed to the St Matthews Community for their love for us.
Just to list a few things that we shall not forget in our lives:
1. The 12 of us flew together from Malawi to Scotland. The experinces in the flight, the love we had for each other, the smiles etc deminished the gap that exist amongst us at home. We hope this way of living shall continue. Our trip has united us more than ever. We thank God for this.

2. Upon landing in Glasgow, we were welcomed with a lot of smiles and we experienced a lot of love. We forgot that we were away from home. Scotland is the warm Herat of Europe just as we are the warm Heart of Africa.
3 The visitations around school brought a lot of amazement in me. I could not believe my eyes at first. The varrying sizes of students in the dining hall. The nu,erous students etc. I toook as many pictures as possible to remeber this.
4 The different places we heard about in history and Geography while in Malwi: Blantyre, Scotland, Edinburgh et were not historical any more. We actually set our feet there. We were privileged to visit the parliament, huge and magnificent indeed. I have not been in the malwi Hous of Parliament. This one is so memorable for me because it is the first one. we followed a very heated debate whereby the First Minister was clarifying some issues on some hard questions. It was a great honor for me to be present in the house on that day.
5. I also visited Glasgow Centre. I can not just explain how splendid the buildings are. they are built on stone, great work of art and a lot of engineering work. It was lovely indeed. I also had a chance to visit the famous Celtic Club ground. I also saw the seat of Rod Stewart, so lovely indeed.

In short, we enrished our eyes wiith so many things difficulkt to explai.
If I had the power to appeal to the Malawi Government, I would ask the president to put a lot of preference in Education for the young Malawians. The facilities that are here inScotland in schools can also be made available to Malawians. It just needs a serious mind to consider the good of all Malawians.

In Tumbuka we say, " Kusambira kukumala yayi" meaning education will also be there to help us. We have just learnt alot.
God bless our partneship between Scotland and malawi. We are really blessed to be here.

Fr Andrew Aubrey Chunda

Monday, 29 March 2010

Kingstone's blog

I am kingstone Nyirenda. I am very thankful to you Scotish peoplebecause of what you have done for me and to my friends, may God bless you all. Your friendly, your kindness, your kindness has really made some Malawians to continue their education, without you some of us we could not find a chance of continuing our education and my self I could not see Europe but because of your kindness all these things have been done so I am verythankful.
I am hope that your money is not misused, because al l busary holders are working hard, for example the results of last year all Junior busary holders passed their national examsincluding me myself. So please continue your kindness, may be next coming years Malawi can be better as Scotland is. thank you, may God bless you all. [Yewo chomene chiuta wamutumbikeni mose] Ndine Kingstone.

Friday, 26 March 2010

hie am emelda, and l hope that every one in malawi is fine especilly in my famiry and st peters secondary school.lwouldl like to talk abit about how was our journey,it was very important to every one of us because through this trip we have learned so much things which is very nessesary to all of us. we will be back very soon to teach you people each and every thing which we have learned here. while we are here we have visited so many places such as scottish parliament, dr david livingstone centre and duling night times we have also visited some of intelesting places like pin bowling at saltcoats, we went also to xscape at glasgow where we had play with snow .just wait for us so that you can learn more things from us .thank very much.lam e....me....l ...da .nice to meet you there.

Thursday, 25 March 2010

Emelda's Blog

h1e malawians especially st peters secondary school.am very very happy to talk to you people in this evening just because am enjoying at st matthews academy each and every day. to say the truth we have enjoyed and we are still enjoying up to 31st march 2o10. i just want to thank the famiry of mr and mrs grant for welcomed me into their houses and all the things which their have done to me for this l say yewo choomene may the almight god who knows how to bless ,bless this famiry.and another most and important thing is that l would like also to thank the head teacher of st matthews academy and all members not forget the students for all the support which their do provide to us ,such as school blocks, laboratory and its equipments ,they also provide school uniform to those who are needy together with school fees ,for this we say also yewo chomene .

H.O.J KHEMBO

hello, its so good so fantastic to be here in scotland, I went to the scotish Parliament it was so exciting. Its a beautiful building in a beautiful city with friendly peaple. I would like to thank those peaple who have lost their time just to be with us, yewo chomene.

Wednesday, 24 March 2010

THE WONDERFUL TIMES

It is lovely to be here. each dya is bringing different lovely experince in this Warm Heart of the World. We meet smiles and love in each and every corner we visit.

Today I had good times with priests at St Mary's Parish. The christian community at mass and their love for me spoke volumes and volumes of the warmth the world should give to a stranger. It was lovely indeed.

I also had a chance to get a free eye test. as I say I shall go back to Malawi with better sight. What an experience indeed. My eyes were faulty, a thing I knew ofcourse but never cared to do something about them. Today and on, I shall be able to see better.

What else can wes do to the Lord for his Goodness to Us! The only response is Thank You God for make us partners. We are able to experience things we never imagined before.

Once again, thank you everything.


Fr Andrew Aubrey Chunda

THUMBIKOS THIRD DAY

Here comes again Thumbiko,it been agreat day for me because i have been attending some of subjects which in my life i have never ever learnt before.Oh it was quate interesting for me to be in a spanish class only that it was difficult to understand but i had to enjoy.To add on we had also to attend french with kingstone where we had to translate french words into our normal language which is tumbuka.
I should take this chance to apreciciate anybody who is taking part in terms of my hospitality for instance the family of Northcote,Eric ,Bernadett and the staff members of st matthews plus students.I love you all and do not stop doing that ,may God guide,protect and be with you.Yewo.
It's Kingstone again I had not finished. I am very thankful to them for providing transport for us. We had a very good journey. Now we are having a great experience. Here in Scotland we are enjoying with them for playing bowling. I would like to encourage all my fellow students who are on bursary to work hard in class. Because to find fees is very difficult. It is better to work hard for them to be interested so there fees are not misused. Here in Scotland we are enjoying with our fellow students of St Matthew's Academy. The students are very friendly. We are chatting with them very well. St Peter's also have very friendly students. Today at night we are going to see snow which I am very interested to see. Thank you to everyone in Scotland and Malawi. (Monire mose)

Tuesday, 23 March 2010

H.O.J KHEMBO IN SCOTLAND

Hello, it has been a good trip for me and I have achieved alot & the great expiriences from the Scotish. This day being my second day @ School I have been welcomed by all the Students & Staff of St Matthews Academy in their Classes with all their hearts & I have enjoyed the day and the lessons, Yewo Chomene.

I should also take an orppotunity to thank the family of Mr & Mrs Oneill for their loving hearts and the fact that they are taking me as their own child, I m very glad with the family. I would like also to thank the Brothers & Sisiters, children, glandsons and doughters & all relatives of Mr & Mrs Oneill for the good welcoming in the family, Yewo chomene.

I would like also to thank Mr Allan & Miss Bernadette for the encouragement they are giving to us, as the group from Malawi, Im very greatful, Zikomo kwambiri.

Lastly I woud like to thank my fellow Malawians for the togetherness they are showing to me Im very thankful. May almighty Father bless us all.

Ndine, ( its me )

HARRIS ONEILL JOKER KHEMBO.........
bravo to malawians especially in the northern region here we are in scotland we enjoyed the journey and they have wellcomed us very well. let me ask god to bless them all because of their kindness.iam very thankfull to them for providing transport

THUMBIKO'S DAY TWO

It has been my second day at st matthews academy. I am very impressed because i have attended some of the lessons especialy physics, i had to participate in some experiments.For instance Titration and on Electricity.My day has been fine with my fellow st matthews student,we had to eat together during our lunch break.I hope to have more fan with them for the lest of my days at there school.Yewo chomene,Tawonga.(THUMBIKO).

Monday, 22 March 2010

Thankyou God

I am very happy to be here in Scotland and i thank both my friends from Scotland and in Malawi, because of the support you have given me. I want everyone there in Malawi to know that i arrived very well by the grace of God. I just want you to know that i was very happy to have a warm welcome by my hosts and i am so happy that i am hosted by a loving family. I am very happy and i alson hope that you are very happy there too. I pray for you each and every day and my God bless both you and everyone here in Scotland.
See you soon Lizzie x

Am Enjoying

Hello the St Peter's Group,I am very delighted this morning to greet all of you. I have already forgotten where am coming from. From the airport, we were warmly welcomed by our Scotland friends.Am enjoying every minute of my stay with Ally's family. I tell every member of the family is very friendly. I hope you are also enjoying your stay as well.Bye for now and nice stay.James
I am very happy that am hosted by the Northcoat family.The have given me the whole opportunity to do what ever i want and am enjoying.Am no longer a malawian now but a scottish and am i have even changed my surname,am now Thumbiko Northcoat.May God bless you.YEWO CHOMENE,MUKANOZGA KUWAKO.

Sunday, 21 March 2010

Greetings from Scotland

Hello,

I wish to express my gratitude to all of you that has contributed to our visit to Scotland. I appreciate all your efforts. We are excited to be in Scotland, we are having real fun.
we are one day old here but my experience in the meantime can make a book.

My experiences in Scotland will linger a lifetime and i think it is thesame with other members of my team.

May God continue to bless you all for your generousity, kindness and hospitality.

Thank you.

Daphne.

Saturday, 20 March 2010

Here we are in Scotland!

It has been a pleasure for us, 12 Malawians to travel to Scotland. We had a very wonderful trip to this new home. I travelled with students and teachers who had not been on the aeroplane before.. It was an adventure I tell you!

I would like to express my heartfelt thanks on behalf of the St Peter's visitors.

We also recived a very wonderful welcome at the airport. We were amazed at seeing so mnay friends waiting for us. I actually felt vvery shy because we never did this in Malawi. I hope you will understand us because the distances to the airport would not allow us.

Wher I am, at the house of the Headmaster, Eric Allan, I have also been welcomed very well. I have already forgotten where I came from. It is so lovely and nice. As my prayer, I say God be blessed.

Fr Andrew Aubrey Chunda.