Five Months 'Myezi yankhonde'… (October 16, 2009) Days continue to pass at a pace which I can't quite understand. At times it still feels like forever before I will return to the creature comforts in America. At the same time, however, it seems as if the time here has already gone by faster than I can grasp. Nevertheless, I am staying well and learning more than I have in years of study (nothing like first hand experiences). I have to admit, however, that th...

Three Months in Malawi (September 4, 2009) So... I have hit the three month mark (which I have discovered is actually ¼ of a year). It does not seem like I have lived here that long, but then again the night of packing with my amazing friends seems like ages ago. It's hard to tell when I lived a life that had television and regular access to internet. Sono (now), here is an update from my month all alone in Usisya. My life moves as a snails pace as I try ea...

Three Months in Malawi (September 4, 2009) So... I have hit the three month mark (which I have discovered is actually ¼ of a year). It does not seem like I have lived here that long, but then again the night of packing with my amazing friends seems like ages ago. It's hard to tell when I lived a life that had television and regular access to internet. Sono (now), here is an update from my month all alone in Usisya. My life moves as a snails pace as I try ea...

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Site Visit: (July 20-23) I along with two other volunteers boarded the bus in Mzuzu at 10am for Nkhata Bay. The idea was to go there and meet our DHO (District Health Officer) and then go on to our sites from there. We arrived in a drizzle of rain at around noon and found the DHO to be in Blantyre (a city in the South). We would achieve our second task though as I was promised an ambulance ride to Usisya at 4. We then went into the boma (trading center) for lu...