Sika | May 21, 2009
There are many many funny signs in Malawi. I have mental notes to go track down and photograph lots. But this one, the idea of living withough photographic record of its brilliance was too much to imagine, so I took a picture of it on my camera phone. And then read it again and again. [...]
Sika | May 21, 2009
At our COS conference, there was a Yao dancer with his locally-available-resources-band. Since it was too dark for movies, I took pictures and recorded some sound files instead. I’m not sure this post is going to work the way I want it to, so if it doesn’t, I’m sorry. Yao Dance Yao Dance2 Yao Dance3 [...]
Sika | May 15, 2009
Honester and I hosted a little party on my porch. My mama sent a bunch of bubble stuff a while ago, and between getting ready for holidays and exhaustion and all the traveling for Peace Corps stuff I’ve been doing since I got back from America, I never had time to pull out the bubble [...]
Sika | May 13, 2009
The elections are happening next Tuesday. I tried to get pictures of a group of women in UDF zitenje, but they wanted money I didn’t want to give them. I thought it would be nice for them, considering 95% of all TV media coverage, and most of the radio coverage is positively skewed to the [...]
Sika | May 13, 2009
At COS conference, they told us to start taking pictures of the everyday stuff, ’cause that’s what we haven’t been taking pictures of, and that’s what we’ll be saddest we don’t have. And, at least for me, they were right. So, on the way home from Lilongwe, I decided to get over my normal reluctance [...]
Sika | May 11, 2009
For reasons that are fundamentally minor and that I don’t really want to remember anyway, I was having a crappy, ill-prepared morning. I spent some of the morning crying (don’t worry, not much) and a large portion of it in an exhausted, irritated funk. I believe, at one point, I actually said to my first [...]
Sika | May 8, 2009
Today I had the students role play teaching their patients about atelectasis* More than one of them said, this is a disease which will lead to death if you don’t do what I say, or something to that effect. I told them to use plain English: so, I got, “Atelectasis is a disease which can [...]
Sika | May 6, 2009
Madonna’s in the news again. I’m a little leery posting about this, because jeez peez, Madonna is already what 90% of everyone outside of Africa knows about Malawi, but I will boldly venture forth anyway. If you were privy to my friends’ updates in facebook, you would know that many of them were extremely happy [...]
Sika | May 5, 2009
Last week I had my COS (Close of Service) Conference, We went to Nkhotakota Pottery on Monday and came back to Lilongwe on Friday. The Close of Service conference is about learning what paperwork we have to do, and how to exit our communities gracefully. After all, it’s tough to adjust to a place where [...]
Sika | May 5, 2009
1) I find it hilarious that I know people whose parents want them to get back home because of swine flu. Last time I checked, America=cases of swine flu. Africa!=cases of swine flu. Seems like it’s safer here, at the moment. Mandita! Come here if you can’t go to Mexico! 2) I’m working on an [...]
