General Good Times.

by Dom on May 27th, 2007

So had to come in to lilongwe. Had to do it, so I did. There were “summer school” meetings, or Camp Sky, as it’s being called. It’s this “secondary project” where we invite kids from our schools to come to like a crazy peace corps volunteer run “school” that’s only like a week and a half long where we do harder stuff than normal and offer interesting electives, like film study and star gazing. woohoo. Anyway, I’m in charge of picking where to do it at. Good times in general but nothing real specific.

There was also a “Iron Chef” competition. It was held at Dale’s. Basically we had like 4 groups with a secret ingredient of honey make a ton of food, and then we hang out. Food was good, and it was definitely fun. Ahh peace corps…

Peace Corps made me sign some paper that basically said I had to like my new site or decide to go home. I was “terribly vexed” about that. But it’s cool because I do like it. No worries. I bought this curio table that has a chess board on one side and a bao board on the other, so when I have guests we have something to do other than wait to watch the sunset. I did trade one of my pairs of camo shorts for the pieces to the chess set, but I still have another pair, and the other pair fits better so it’s all good.

Back to site tomorrow, gotta get my teach on.

New site and all that shniz-noz

by Dom on May 25th, 2007

I don’t know what shniz-noz is. Anyway, I did get a new site. It’s a lot better so far. I like it a lot. It’s a tinier house but real cozy and a good bit cleaner. I’m real close to the road now, and pretty close to the luwawa forrest lodge. It’s reall cool to have somewhere like that to be able to get away easily. I have cell service at site too. Still no running water or electricity though, but whatever, who needs it. It’s over-rated…The school is cool. Headmaster’s real nice, real accomidating. Also, the house technically isn’t finished. So while it’s perfectly livable there are little things like how the gutters will go that I appreciate having a say in. So things are going good. Now I’m just trying to make my house more home-y and comfortable. I think I’m doing a good job. I have a guy at the curio’s making me a table with bao on one side and chess on the other.