Sika | September 24, 2008
The weekend before last, Cory arranged a football and netball tournament and HIV/AIDS thingamajig. A few health volunteers deigned to show up* even though Cor is a lowly education volunteer. It was interesting, although most of the educational bits came in Chichewa and so we spent a great deal of time trying to figure out [...]
Sika | September 24, 2008
Tamandani’s name is a command to praise god*. She is my 4-year-old neighbour and is absolutely fascinated by me. The first time I met her she wouldn’t say a word to me but her father told me that she had been talking nonstop about how she was going to make friends with the mzungu who [...]
Sika | September 24, 2008
Was just talking to my mama on the phone (irritatingly shortened by the whole disconnect and then have to pay connection fees again thing that happens just about always), and I was describing to her how eating chicken seems like a perfectly justified act here. I bite into a drumstick, feel the flesh satisfyingly part [...]