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...

Monile Mose: Almost in country for two months and it's hard to believe it's been that long already. Training has been a whirlwind through villages, languages (yes that is plural in my case), and various regions of the country. It's hard to sum up the last two months, and I am sorry to those who I have not gotten the chance to write. But my meager allowance has found it difficult to make it to post offices and even through the purchasing of stamps which have be...