Sika | June 9, 2010
In the afternoon, we visited my school. It was anticlimactic, as most everybody was on holiday. I felt sorry for the incoming class of first years, meant to be a class of 90 and, since they wouldn’t fit in any of the existing classrooms, they were meant to be taught in the burned out and [...]
Sika | March 18, 2009
Lectures start up next week again. I’ve got 4 topics, but I did 2 of them last year and one of the other 2 is related to one that I did last year. For the second years, I have two topics coming up, but I’ve done both of them before, so it shouldn’t be too [...]
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 | 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 [...]
