Friday, August 27, 2010

Coming soon: A kitten!!!!

Got back to my house from Blantyre on Sunday to discover that I now have a resident RAT!  Not cool... Had a really bad experience from homestay in Dedza during training where a rat decided to hang out in my room at night... and then go through my backpack... for about a week.  And on top of that had a probably Mefloquine induced dream of it crawling on my while sleeping... So, in short, I was not excited to discover that my peanuts were half eaten or to wake up at 2am to the sound of bottles falling from shelves and something rummaging through my trash... Need to get something to take care of that... And for future rat problems, thankfully Amayi Rose, one of my friends in Maliera (my village), has 2 kittens for sale!!!  So, I'll be buying one for K350.  Which amounts to a little less than US$2.  And will say good bye to Mr. Rat...

Also, super excited because Sunday I'll be climbing Mulanje for the first time!  Also kind of scared.  This mountain is HUGE!!!  I'm used to little mountains... The Appalachians and the mountains of the Allegheny Plateau near me are babies compared to Mulanje... So, to say I'm a bit intimidated is an understatement.  Also, Amy (my site mate with a lot more climbing experience) scared me because she was going on about how everything I own clothes-wise is not appropriate for this... I guess we'll see.  I'll be on the top for only 3 days, so I'll survive.  That is if I make it to the top in the first place... :)

Anyways... things are picking up work wise... Trying to get information on an oil press for the peanut butter group by me... and getting materials together for a tree nursery... and getting some boreholes (where we get water) back to working condition... So... yup...

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Oh my god... I have a blog!!

Oh yeah... that's right... I've joined the dark side.  Actually, the more I thought about it, and the more I realized the mass emails I told random people I'd send out was never going to happen, the more this seemed like a good idea.  So... let the blogging begin...

Thank you Mary Clare for the fabulous URL.  And for just being fabulous in general.

So... For those of you who have not heard... I'm currently living in Malawi (that's in southern Africa) and working as a Peace Corps volunteer... I live in Mulanje district, pretty much at the Mozambique border.  My official job is a community based natural resource management extension worker... or something like that...  I forget... I'll clarify in the future as I figure this thing out.  Anyways...