Sika | January 19, 2009
Because it’s taken me about 5 hours to get a screen up I can post from, I’m going to hijack my own post to give y’all a link to an article that I think makes a good case for why Bush officials need to be prosecuted for war crimes: www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/01/18/prosecutions/ . It basically says that [...]
Sika | November 18, 2008
David was complaining to Flora that it is too hot* and how he wanted the rains to come. Flora’s response: The rains aren’t coming because people are still burning bricks (to cure them and make them usable). David thought she was joking and laughed but she wasn’t. She explained that the bricks require heat and [...]
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 | January 14, 2008
My grandma is doing better, I’m back in Malawi and back at work. Derek and I had Christmas dinner Iranian-style at the house of an ex-PCV in Old Niecy here in Zomba and then hiked the Zomba Plateau right after Christmas. I then went north and camped on the beach for New Year’s eve with [...]
Sika | November 8, 2007
Is starting early this year. On Saturday, around 6:30 (pronounced “half-six”) at night the lightning started. At first there was no rain and no thunder, and then a little drizzle started, but it sounded like a real rain because the tin roof amplifies the sound. The lightning started coming more and more frequently, but the [...]
