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I'm now posting at firesika.com. I won't be updating here, anymore, but to bribe you, I've got lots of new stuff over at my new site. It's totally worth it to log in so I can give you permissions to see locked stuff, too. You can use OpenID, too, so if you don't want yet another login to remember, you don't have to have one (just a note, the ( Read more... )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LYSS!

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 when I saw people from all over the neighbourhood trekking to the ( Read more... )

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 arrived. So I decided to go into town just to see if it had ( Read more... )

Inauguration day, I was working late-we got out of the practical room just shortly before 7, which is when Obama’s swearing in was to happen. Bea asked why I wasn’t staying, and I told her the truth-because I didn’t want to have to take a taxi home. But the students were watching the whole inauguration process avidly and of their own volition and ( Read more... )

Moses was meant to help me with my garden the other day. He came a couple of hours after I was expecting him and told me that he and his daughter, Dinah, had a meeting with Derek in the morning. Dinah was one of the students Derek is supporting, but she’s never done very well. She failed again and so Derek is not going to pay her school feels ( Read more... )

President Bingu wa Mutharika came to Zomba two weeks ago, and all of his supporters were out on the streets, in their blue zitenje and their shirts and trousers and skirts and dresses and headdresses made from the blue zitenje. When David and I went to the airport to go to South Africa, ex-president Muluzi (whose eligibility for the elections later ( Read more... )

Because it's taken me about 5 hours to get a screen up I can post from, I'm going to hijack my own post to give y'all a link to an article that I think makes a good case for why Bush officials need to be prosecuted for war crimes: http://www.salon.com/opinion ( Read more... )

I haven’t really talked much about what I’m doing at work. I was getting ready to write about South Africa, and I realized that I should probably write about a little more than my holidays.

I’ve actually gotten quite busy with work at work. Sometimes I don’t even have time to read Mike’s missives of mockery regarding my internet access and use ( Read more... )