March 29, 2010 Our local governor is under suspicion for something I don’t quite understand. It seems that for some reason he was putting too much work into helping to develop the area, this means they feel he might try and compete for the MP position in 2014… therefore he needed to be dethroned. African politics, even in one of the most peaceful countries on the continent, are not always very fair. Anyhow, I was at the community hall (waiting for a meeting ...

March 29, 2010 Our local governor is under suspicion for something I don’t quite understand. It seems that for some reason he was putting too much work into helping to develop the area, this means they feel he might try and compete for the MP position in 2014… therefore he needed to be dethroned. African politics, even in one of the most peaceful countries on the continent, are not always very fair. Anyhow, I was at the community hall (waiting for a meeting ...

February 22, 2010 - finding one's self When people go off on their own to a new place, it is usually given a cheesy image of finding oneself. It is the soul searchers who run off to foreign countries and return to treaded hair or some new person in their lives to introduce to the family. I have picked up neither of those two things, but self discovery is certainly on the top of my daily activities list. In a recent letter to my mother I attempted to tell her who...

A Funeral and some children (Jan 17th) About a month ago I had a young boy come to me with a problem. He was studying in form 2 (grade 10) and has passed the entrance exam to proceed on to the next grade. However, his mother has been sick for some time and what would have been his school fees was sent with her to Mzuzu to pay for her keep there. These stories of needing money are not new to my time here, but I felt bad for the boy who was obviously struggling to...

November 27th, 2009 The biggest thing people have problems grasping with Peace Corps is the two year commitment. With that I will try and explain what I have experienced as I have today finished ¼ of that promise. Two years is a long time, and I don't believe I have completely grasped what I have gotten myself into yet. All the same, if I ever want to leave I am not held into a prison here. In fact some people choose to ET (early terminate) which is not impos...