Sika | February 20, 2009
When I think of writing now, my thoughts seem so negative. As much as Derek may rejoice in me becoming a jaded old PCV, I am not happy with the way all the negativity makes me and Malawi sound. So, I think I’m going to do what I did for my students after their practical [...]
Sika | November 10, 2008
I went back to NOC a while ago to do a vertical garden training with the guardians and the home health volunteers. While I was there, we reviewed weighing and charting and I took the pictures I didn’t get before because of the failure to bring my camera. So this post will be mostly pictures [...]
Sika | October 7, 2008
I got there late because my tires needed pumping. I knew I had loaned my pumps to Sarah and David, respectively; I knew I had to get to NOC last Wednesday; I knew I always need to inflate the tires a bit when I haven’t ridden my bike in a while. I still forgot to [...]
Sika | September 24, 2008
The weekend before last, Cory arranged a football and netball tournament and HIV/AIDS thingamajig. A few health volunteers deigned to show up* even though Cor is a lowly education volunteer. It was interesting, although most of the educational bits came in Chichewa and so we spent a great deal of time trying to figure out [...]
Sika | September 24, 2008
It’s been a while since I updated, and even then I was skipping over a lot of stuff. It’s kind of amazing: it’s like I have a life here or something. Anyway, the thing I really should go back to write about is Camp GLOW (Girls Leading Our World). There are two camps put on [...]
Sika | July 23, 2008
I am now, officially and all that, a SECOND YEAR HEALTH VOLUNTEER That is all.
Sika | June 13, 2008
I had forgotten what cold season is like. Not the cold itself; that I remember, but the way in which it is cold. Any place where there is an absence of direct sunlight it is f-ing freezing. This morning we were a little worried about our toes falling off from sudden onset of frostbite. I [...]
Sika | June 13, 2008
I am at Mid Service Training right now. (Do you know what this means? I’ve been in Malawi for a whole year. Can you believe it? I mean, I know every second of the last year has just dragged by for y’all, what with me not being around and all, but for me it has [...]
Sika | February 25, 2008
Sometimes, when I smoosh the life out of a mosquito between my hand and the wall instead of between my hands, I leave the broken and mangled body there as a warning to other mosquitoes. Is that wrong? I did nothing today. After last weekend’s trip to Lilongwe for our meeting of PC Nurses (or, [...]
Sika | February 19, 2008
I have been thinking about what I’m going to do with my life after Peace Corps (can you believe I’ve already been here for 8 months?!?). Specifically, I’ve been thinking about if and how I want to take advantage of the Peace Corps Fellows program. Suddenly it ocurred to me that I might want to [...]
Sika | September 13, 2007
First things first: Happy birthday to elfflame and my brother, Matt! My new address for everything: Jessica Holman Zomba School of Nursing P.O. Box 122 Zomba, Malawi Southern Africa Could someone do some research on whether there’s a way to make livejournal load a more simple, faster version and/or if blogspot or something else is [...]
Sika | August 31, 2007
< FINALLY I will move into my house in Zomba on Tuesday. And I was able to take advantage of site visits up north to get a ride to Mzuzu this past Tuesday and back to Lilongwe tomorrow. I’ve been staying with Michelle, although we had dinner at the Mzoozoo Zoo with a few people [...]
Sika | August 27, 2007
Chichewa word of the day (week, month, or year): Zikomo. Zikomo is a word that means almost everything. It means “excuse me,” “thank you,” “you’re welcome.” I’m pretty sure it means other things too, but I don’t really remember at the moment. Peace Corps jargon of the day (week, month, or year): APCD – [...]
Sika | July 30, 2007
In some ways I feel like I am back in the end of high school or beginning of college. Getting away from my routine and into a job that has a definite end date–not to mention all the scholarships I can get with Peace Corps Fellows which fixes a number of problems with going back [...]
Sika | July 8, 2007
Yesterday we went to the Lighthouse, which is a HIV/AIDS testing and treatment place near Lilongwe. The presentation was actually pretty good, but once again communication issues got in the way. We were told that we would open our bank accounts and then we could finally get phones and access our money from the safe [...]
