Sika | June 8, 2010
In mom’s and my whirlwind tour of Malawi, I tried to balance seeing things that I hadn’t been able to see, and showing mom what my life was like in Malawi—well, at least as close as I could given that I my life in was functionally over. We went up to Nyika Plateau, which was [...]
Sika | June 8, 2009
Edith asked me to come to PST (pre-service training) for the newbies. I was excited because I was pretty sure Zomba was getting Marla, and I thought it would be nice to get to know her a bit better. Also, I hadn’t had/taken the chance to spend more than a few hours with the Health [...]
Sika | October 7, 2008
Yulie and I were walking from the stage to my house and two guys said "how arle you?" I was trying to decide if they were the harasser types when one of them said, "What? You don’t speak English?" Before I even thought, I said, "No." Long pause. "Oh." And they walked off. Yulie and [...]
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 1, 2008
A couple of days ago I was telling my office mate, Jane, that sometimes, when I can’t think of a word in Chichewa, a Spanish word escapes instead. Jane said that doesn’t really help since nobody here speaks Spanish. But that isn’t exactly true. Malawi may have been an English colony, but Mozambique was a [...]
Sika | October 2, 2007
Chichewa words of the day: bwana, azungu: Bwana literally means boss, and if you’ve seen as many movies about apartheid era South Africa as I have, you probably already know that. But since I know very few people who were as obsessed with apartheid as I was, that knowledge may have understandably escaped you. I [...]
Sika | October 2, 2007
Chichewa word of the day: Ujeni. Ujeni is a word that means approximately whatchamacallit or thingamajig or whosits whatsit. This is relevant because at this moment my puppy, whom I’ve named Ujeni, is sitting on my lap and is rather perturbed that I won’t let him eat my computer. He got that name because of [...]
Sika | August 20, 2007
Tomorrow afternoon is my Language Proficiency Interview and I swear in and finally become a volunteer on Thursday. Wish me luck for tomorrow.
Sika | August 17, 2007
< Not so’s most of you would notice though, since by back I mean still in Africa but back in Malawi. I’m going to be in Lilongwe for a week or two, which I guess is ok since it gives me time to take my LPI (Cedric is coming to talk to me and maybe [...]
