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...

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...

Trip down South… (Nov 20) Julia and I set out for our grand adventure around noon on Monday with some very convenient Peace Corps transport. After 6.5 hours we arrived in Thyolo (pronounced cholo) which is one of the most southernPCV sites in Malawi. Meg's site is situated in the tea fields which seem to supply Malawi and most of UK with some inexpensive product. All handpicked and running for Km upon Km it was overwhelming and exhausting to walk through and m...

Trip down South… (Nov 20) Julia and I set out for our grand adventure around noon on Monday with some very convenient Peace Corps transport. After 6.5 hours we arrived in Thyolo (pronounced cholo) which is one of the most southernPCV sites in Malawi. Meg's site is situated in the tea fields which seem to supply Malawi and most of UK with some inexpensive product. All handpicked and running for Km upon Km it was overwhelming and exhausting to walk through and m...

It began at 1:30 am with a phone call from my ambulance driver saying that if I wanted a ride into the boma (trading center) then I would have to leave then. So at 2am I piled into the ambulance with three emergency patients (two young children with cerebral malaria and one woman having delivery complications). We arrived at 4am to the Mzuzu Central Hospital [I found later that day that one of the boys died later that morning and lost his brother the day before t...