Sika | February 20, 2009
My birthday party was awesome. David made a nutella birthday cake for me, I made Tracy’s carrot cake for Thoko’s birthday, and Adrienne blessed me with her first ever baking attempt: a delicious although somewhat disconcerting red velvet cake. Wanangwa brought a Ngoni delicacy—a hog’s head, and parts of it actually tasted good*. We had [...]
Sika | July 23, 2008
We arrived at Haven, having gotten off the van giving us a lift and walking a couple of minutes into the warren that is the vast majority of Stone Town. Haven is a sweet, funky place, with an insane staircase, one hot shower (there are 4 toilets altogether. 3 of them have showers in them. [...]
Sika | July 23, 2008
First off, it’s not pronounced TAN-za-nee-a. Or Tan-ZANE-ee-a. It is pronounced Tan-ZAHN-ee-a. This means, that in an effort to appear to be culturally sensitive I sometimes say one, sometimes say the other, sometimes say a weird amalgam of all three, and sometimes make noises I didn’t even know were humanly possible, although they certainly aren’t [...]
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 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 | January 17, 2008
Not really thoughts inspired by Chilembwe Day, since my only thoughts about Chilembwe Day were, “w00t! Day off!” and “Is it really appropriate to say Happy Chilembwe Day about the first martyr for Malawian independence? It seems a little gauche.” So more like thoughts inspired on Chilembwe Day. Whoever invented fitted sheets is a genius, [...]
