Sika | February 27, 2009
I’m getting on the overnight bus tonight so I can be in Mzuzu sometime between 3 and 6 am tomorrow, so Michelle and I can maybe go to Livingstonia this weekend and definitely go on the MV Ilala on Monday. We’re going to Likoma, the island in the middle of Lake Malawi that’s in Mozambican [...]
Sika | February 26, 2009
Mrs. Jeremiah came to our offices a couple of days ago to measure me for national wear. I had brought fabric that I didn’t have plans for as well, and we talked for a few minutes about what we could maybe do with it. Eventually I said I wanted a dress, but I wanted it [...]
Sika | February 23, 2009
We were meant to go to Robben Island our second day in South Africa. We had also booked it by phone, since the website tells you how to make online bookings but then refuses to actually accept them. We were told that Robben Island is worth going to and books up early. So we did [...]
Sika | February 23, 2009
There was Ari’s Souvlaki, of course. There was also sushi that first morning. We ate it at the earliest hour we could find a place serving it. I had been talking about eating sushi for a good three months before we went to Cape town. Actually, to be fair, many of us in my [...]
Sika | February 20, 2009
My birthday party was awesome. David made a nutella birthday cake for me, I made Tracy’s carrot cake for Thoko’s birthday, and Adrienne blessed me with her first ever baking attempt: a delicious although somewhat disconcerting red velvet cake. Wanangwa brought a Ngoni delicacy—a hog’s head, and parts of it actually tasted good*.
We had music [...]
Sika | February 20, 2009
Our first full day in SAfrica*, I woke on Malawi time (read: way too early). I was very excited because I knew we were going to see Johnny Clegg that afternoon. Gareth had told us about the summer concerts at Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, and that we had to make sure to go to one. I [...]
Sika | February 6, 2009
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LYSS!
Sika | February 4, 2009
Overnight on Friday, my water went out. Thanks to the weird functioning of my geyser, I was able to use the water stored there to bathe and flush my toilet and wash up my dishes and all that kind of thing. I was a little concerned that it was a billing problem or something, but [...]
Sika | February 3, 2009
Ok, so now that I’ve finally (mostly) caught up on Malawi, it’s time to start on South Africa. We’ll start with the day before. I had the day off because of our after hours work, but the notice slip for my mom’s Christmas package (one of two Christmas packages I was to get) hadn’t yet [...]