1. Index to the April-C-Series from the start of Malawi-03
2. Last minute changes in course correction for departure and Lilongwe pickup of Kevin Bergman.
3. THE SCRAMBLE FOR DEPARTURE“INTO AFRICA”      
4. My laptop technoglitch is completely disabling for the Malawi trek, and I will have to resurrect the faulty IBM ThinkPad which had once accompanied “Into Africa” a decade ago before it was declared obsolete the same year that I bought it!
5. At the last minute and for the second year in a row, Harolyn Johnson cancels the Malawi trip.
6. The calculus of the new logistics for passengers and baggage given Harolyn’s dropping out and Kevin’s being picked up.
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9. The “ground rush” of the final day packing up and out of Derwood, by way of Kinko’s, and a narrow catch of a rush hour rainy day round trip to Dulles, And arrival at my European home town of London, for a day of walkabout around the square mile from Inn at Lincoln’s Fields, the Strand, St. Paul’s, Victoria Embankment and Westminster, and the Millennium high view from “London Eye” 
10. The long flights and adventures of transit to the “Far Side”--the African Antipodes, through Nairobi to Lilongwe reunions, and then, arrival at Embangweni, Malawi. 
11. Our introductory “non-operating” day, planning to make rounds and get a slow casual look around, sorting out the donated supplies, and a check on the deaf school “bell choir;” then, an emergency occurs, with an amazing finding, and Kevin Bergman’s first ever life-saving operation. 
12. The triumph and tragedy of the first big “theatre day”
    In Embangweni hospital: After we had seen and done it all in a roller coaster of highs and lows in the patients who had been treated, still more keeps on coming at us, as Kevin had said: “too fast to even process it, requiring a decompression” 
13. Different day, different outcomes: With the same press of big and busy problems, the theatre list goes smoothly and the patients all do well: as the deaf choir is up and rehearsing,
    The chapel choir has added a new member, its only white European representative, and the community has incorporated us into Embangweni life. 
    

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