Why wouldn't you love a country when....

• You can wear what ever you like! Any fashion is ok! Any clothes can be worn together, any colour, any style..doesn’t matter!
• It only costs $3.50 for a doctors consultation, a blood test and some medicine. Only an extra $1 if you need an xray
• Soft drink comes in glass bottles and cheaper to buy than water!
• Its not at all hard to get proposals for marriage
• people wash each others hands before we eat – a lovely experience
• A meal can be made with very few ingredients – not always a good thing!
• You will laugh and smile more times in a day than you ever have before.
• Bathing naked and washing your clothes in the Lilongwe river is very normal
• The only tolls you have to pay is when crossing the wooden bridges of Lilongwe river. It can be more like a ride at an amusement park if its windy or the construction has been a little dodgy.
• You can walk into a market and you will have instant personal sales assistants who will not only find anything you ask for, but may even offer you a seat to wait on while you look.
• You will be encouraged to catch a minibus despite wanting to travel in the opposite direction
• You can wear thongs every day of the year. So much better than real shoes!
• You’ll never be judged for how many sugars you have in your tea, as it will never be as many as the locals
• You are instantly beautiful, and will receive compliments from everyone if you clothe yourself in national wear
• You can befriend someone instantly with a smile and a simple greeting
• You can make friends for life without even speaking the same language
• It only takes little things to make a persons day
• People know how to really smile
• You are greeted on the streets by people who really DO want to know how you are
• Guys wear pink hats
• You can squat for the toilet anytime you like
• They fill up your petrol for you
• The only food you can buy “drive through” is sugar cane and bananas
• The sunset is spectacular - bigger and more beautiful than anything you’ve ever seen
• People sing and dance in public with no inhibitions
• You’ll learn to love to sit in silence and just BE
• You can be entertained for hours with nothing at all
• Thousands of dollars will be saved having children. No prams, pushers, cots, just chitenji on the back.
• You can see world class soccer (well nearly) at the local field for no money at all.
• Peek hour in the capital city is about 20mins from one side of the city to the other
• Lots of money is saved on decorations – you just need white paint for the trees and multicoloured toilet paper
• There are 5 sets of traffic lights and one two lane highway in the capital city
• You’ll learn how to easily love people. without words.
• Life is not ruled by the clock, but by the sun.
• Children can play for hours, and don’t need any entertainment
• Not so many choices. So less decisions
• You can enjoy many dinners by candlelight
• The mangoes are amaaaazing!!!
• You can be an endless supply of nali sauce (did anyone know its made in Malawi?!)
• Your electricity bill is only $8 for a month
• Picking your nose is not only ok, but is common practice even in the middle of conversations.
• You would be terribly unlucky to be booked by the police for an unroadworthy car. Even if your windows are made of heavy duty glad wrap and sticky tape, the door is held on by your passenger, the bumper is made of bamboo and rope or if you use hazard lights as a replacement for your headlights.
• The sounds of people laughing, living & doing life are louder than the sounds of cars and electricity and sirens and television and washing machines and vacuums.