Blantyre

Posted in Blantyre by Dom on December 10th, 2007

So it’s raining now. Like those hard tropical rains that make you have to turn your movie up or go make sure your house isn’t flooding. I got out just in time. I’ve just been sitting here decompressing, some might say, after CampSky. The plan is hang out until thursday cause the Carlsburg tour is wednesday. This morning I watch some south park and then I, Robot. It was nice, but now I’ve come out because I need to get some groceries so I don’t have to eat out so much, and maybe save some money. Apparently I spent quite a bit in Mozambique. I’m also getting a cobbler to fix my flip-flops currently. Having him sew the sole back on. We’ll see how they turn out tomorrow. I’m sure he’ll use like some horrendous color of thread but it’ll be fine they are all black. I guess more what I’m worrying about is somehow the people in this country never seem to be able to do things just like I want, no matter how well I explain it. Who knows. Played some hold’em last night, and some weird mystery role-play games like mafia and murderer the night before. They were fun. Otherwise just been hanging out trying to relax to the max. That’s right, I went there.

They did an EAP, emergency action plan, test the other day where they try to contact everyone. They called while I was teaching, I knew what they wanted. I figured I’d wait till they called back, no use wasting units. They sent me a text at like 5am telling me I needed to call them. Ridiculous. Whatever it got handled. They are giving phones out now because they’ve decided it’s important for safety that everyone has one, except they only work with one network provider and not everyone has them if any at all. A nice gesture none the less. Peace Corps also on this big small camp kick, they supposedly have about $15,000 to give for these. A max of $1000 for each, just have to write a proposal. I think on my way back through lilongwe I’ll see what template they have for the proposal. Thinking, still, about these weekend big experiments. I’ll probably also try to look some up online to try to do, but if anyone has suggestions I’m all ears, or eyes in this case, leave a comment chonde(that’s please).

Marlo’s kid, a girl names Rilla, got baptized, congratulations! And Jon is married now, congratulations to him too!