Sika | March 28, 2008
It’s interesting to watch the landscape change from the green and lush wonderland that has marked the rainy season to having areas of tawny, gold, and brown, as it becomes more and more like the country I flew into 10 months ago. Avocados are no longer expensive (MK10 now, instead of MK30-50); maize is piled [...]
Sika | March 28, 2008
We went out dancing Saturday night at the Blue Elephant (Norwescon Way Eastside, y’all!) and how I reacted to some of the things I saw surprised me. I consider myself a feminist. I’m not squeamish–I don’t add modifiers or disclaimers to succumb to the distortions that others use to twist all meaning out of the [...]
Sika | March 28, 2008
In the process of attempting to look for funding for a friend for a VCT (Voluntary testing and counseling) and Teen Centre in Mzuzu, I found this report. I highly recommend anyone coming here read it as it is all about sex here in Malawi. One of the interesting things to me is that most [...]
Sika | March 27, 2008
Plans changed and I’m back at school now, even though the students are gone. It’s really more of a long, boring story than I want to go into, so I won’t. The upside is that we may actually be able to sort through all our lectures next week and get the academic secretary, Esther, started [...]
Sika | March 20, 2008
The school is closing for the easter holiday, and the campus director said our department could close as long as we had all the work done for the rest of the block before tomorrow. So, last weekend and this week I wrote 6 lectures, marked 72 short papers on atelectasis and 72 exam questions. The [...]
