Sika | June 26, 2008
Probably our right to privacy is unimportant.
Probably it was an oversight that allowed it into the Bill of Rights.
All those people who don’t want us to discover exactly how badly the Bush Administration broke the law and exactly what the telecom companies did to enable them in their power grab: Probably they’re right and I’m [...]
Sika | June 20, 2008
I meant to post this link a long time ago, but go read
wensurprised
. She’s a beautiful writer and her experiences here in Malawi (in the education sector teaching at a secondary school, and in the village) are very different than mine. Plus, I’m pretty sure her username is a Terry Pratchett reference, and what more [...]
Sika | June 13, 2008
I had forgotten what cold season is like. Not the cold itself; that I remember, but the way in which it is cold. Any place where there is an absence of direct sunlight it is f-ing freezing. This morning we were a little worried about our toes falling off from sudden onset of frostbite. I [...]
Sika | June 13, 2008
I am at Mid Service Training right now. (Do you know what this means? I’ve been in Malawi for a whole year. Can you believe it? I mean, I know every second of the last year has just dragged by for y’all, what with me not being around and all, but for me it has [...]
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 [...]
Sika | June 13, 2008
It occurs to me that I am inclined to write about the things that deviate from my routine, like the concert going and birthday parties I had last weekend. But these are the things that are most like home* and are therefore probably not of interest to you lot.
The bits of Africa that come [...]