Sika | June 7, 2010
I had to get more pages put in my passport. After over two years of traveling all over the freaking place, my passport only had a couple blank pages left. It was sort of frustrating: I liked the symmetry of filling my passport at the end of my service*, but I knew I was, at [...]
Sika | May 5, 2010
I didn’t find many people to talk to in my wandering. John, over and over again, as accidentally we ate together at least once a day, and some Peace Corps Volunteers at one point (also, the French couple that had upped the azungu quotient of our minibus too much on the way over, but with [...]
Sika | June 18, 2009
There was an article recently about the high cost of poverty in the US. While I thought the author for that article could have come up with better examples, it was interesting and reframed some random thoughts I’ve been having about Malawi. It’s really expensive to have anything here. For one thing, Malawi (the country [...]
Sika | January 22, 2009
I’ve tried repeatedly to lj-cut this, but it isn’t taking and the code is just getting worse every time I try. Maybe I’ll go through the effort on Monday to fix it. So anyway, sorry about the lack of cuts. Inauguration day, I was working late—we got out of the practical room just shortly before [...]
Sika | February 1, 2008
Derek has been teasing me because when I got back from the U.S. I told him I was expecting rain but not the incessant cloudiness, continuous bursts of drizzling, and general dreariness. Specifically, I said, “Dammit, why is it acting like Seattle?” So, after the umpteen billionth time Derek teased me about how wrong I [...]
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 [...]
