Sika | November 24, 2007
My mom managed to buy me a ticket. So I am leaving about now for the airport. I will not have any phone service after about 12:30am today West-coast time, unless my plane gets delayed. I am going through Nairobi and Amsterdam before ending up in Seattle at 2:40pm on Sunday. I will update more [...]
Sika | November 23, 2007
My grandma is sick. I am trying to get home. The bank turned down my credit card and didn’t have enough time to run a different one, and so now I am waiting for my mother to wake up so that I can get her to try to book a flight online and pay for [...]
Sika | November 8, 2007
This week I have gotten into full swing of teaching. I have 4 lectures this week, have done 2 practicals, and have invigilated 2 exams (doesn’t that sound dirty? I always feel like I need a shower after I say I’ve been invigilating. Jackie and I had a disagreement about which sounds dirtier—invigilating or proctoring—that [...]
Sika | November 8, 2007
Sitting here, writing in my journal by light coming from increasingly shorter (or decreasingly tall) candles, a spider, I assume attracted by the light and warmth, came near me. These spiders are creepy. They are nearly flat and big – about the size of the palm of my hand. They are flat enough that they [...]
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 [...]
Sika | November 8, 2007
I just got back to Zomba from Dedza, where I was for 2 weeks for reconnect. Reconnect is also called In-Service Training (IST) and is the training we do after having been at site for 3 months (unless you’re me, and then you do it after a month and a half). The first week was [...]
Sika | November 8, 2007
I was dating Prince William (#1 – don’t ask me. I’m blaming it on the Lariam. #2 – ok, maybe this part is scary. #3 – it’s bare minimum, the strangest part. And the rest is really weird.) At one point the cars needed to be washed and Prince William had never been in a [...]