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 | June 8, 2010
Kris pointed out, on our way down from Nyika, that we weren’t going to be able to push through to Lilongwe in any kind of time to make it worthwhile. I was supposed to have dinner with Agatha, and Kris wanted to see Gloria, but we wouldn’t get there until late, late. Also, my mom [...]
Sika | June 7, 2010
When I got back, we finally had my leaving party from work. There’s a whole ritual that happens when someone gets a gift. The gift-giver or representative of the group who is giving the gift holds the gift up high and dances over to give it to the recipient, where both people observe respect. When [...]
Sika | June 7, 2010
Back in Zomba. Yay! The day was longer than expected. First of all, in Tete, Mercado de UAO was nowhere near Rua de UAO, which took me forever to figure out. And, when giving directions, multiple people in Tete did this annoyingly vague hand gesture—generally in a diagonal direction from where I was at any [...]
Sika | September 10, 2009
Wanangwa and Kate, two Zomba friends of mine, got married. It almost didn’t happen because their ankhoswe* was late and the law books say you can only get married between certain hours, and the only reason the guy marrying them took pity was that Kate’s mum was returning to Scotland the next day. Anyway, so [...]
Sika | May 15, 2009
Honester and I hosted a little party on my porch. My mama sent a bunch of bubble stuff a while ago, and between getting ready for holidays and exhaustion and all the traveling for Peace Corps stuff I’ve been doing since I got back from America, I never had time to pull out the bubble [...]
Sika | May 13, 2009
The elections are happening next Tuesday. I tried to get pictures of a group of women in UDF zitenje, but they wanted money I didn’t want to give them. I thought it would be nice for them, considering 95% of all TV media coverage, and most of the radio coverage is positively skewed to the [...]
Sika | November 10, 2008
I had a mellow weekend: a nice Saturday where I took 3 naps before noon*, and then rinsed out and hung my laundry which had been soaking overnight because I’ve become too lazy for proper scrubbing and sunlight washing powder takes less color out of clothes than omo did. Very little of it was overrun [...]
Sika | June 13, 2008
Transport home the other night was running late and the sky was turning such interesting colors. Just above the plateau it was a dusky pearlescent mauve, the newly crescent moon suspended from the heavens like a boat sailing between the clouds. The moon glowed so that it seemed as if the shape had been cut [...]
