Trees and Email

Posted in Ideas by Dom on October 28th, 2007

So I’ve come up to Mzuzu in search of both. Trees and email. I went to Nkhata Bay yesterday, cause that’s where every person I talk to tells me I need to go. To find plantain trees that is. The trouble is it’s really difficult to explain what I want to a Malawian because there’s no difference in banana and plantain in chewa, tumbuka or tonga. I’ve got a few words actually but they mean other things and I think people would be more confused if I used words that sometimes mean things like wisdom for a plantain. So the search continues.

Also, apparently my school has created a “link” between us and a school in the UK. And for this “link” we need correspondence. Since the phone system sucks, as some of you have discovered, they haven’t been able to call. And so sent a message via a man at the consulate. So what we’ve decided is to try email. Only no one at my school quite understands the omnipresent capabilities of the internet or email and so I’m meeting my headmaster here to again be a teacher. Wish me luck.

The reason I say link in quotes is because I don’t know what this link means or is or what. Just that we need to be able to correspond. Also I’m glad you guys are liking the pictures.