Archive for July, 2008
Business in Lilongwe.
by Dom on July 22nd, 2008
So now it’s Lilongwe. I got a sweet hitch down…not. After sitting on the side of the road for two and a half hours I decided I’d take the first thing I got. It was a car that went about 3km and turned left and drove another hour and a half out into the bush to drop some relative off. So while I got to the road around 8:30 or 9 I didn’t actually get past Jenda (usually about 20min away) until 1. Then he was doing like 140Km/hr (~85mph) the whole way. Think of doing that on Skinner Mill Rd. or Monroe Ave. maybe. I feigned asleep a lot so I wouldn’t have to see what he was doing. I still had to listen to him complain about Malawian drivers since he was from Zambia and feel to car sway and roll through the turns. Anyway, I’m here now.
The responses I’m getting from the schools seem a bit demoralizing. That being said I’m still applying, just with less hope. Most seem rather unsympathetic to my situation. I guess I expected it, I just hoped otherwise. This week I plan on trying to figure out how to get on georgia’s university system website so I can get transcripts sent. That’s my goal.
Dora’s not here though and her absence annoys me. I could have easily found out she wasn’t going to be here, I just didn’t. Now I can’t ask her about things I hoped I could and time goes by.
TJ comes in soon and who knows what we’ll do. He wants to see Victoria falls. So I guess we’ll do that. Otherwise, it all seems up in the air.
A bit stressed
by Dom on July 22nd, 2008
Term three was over days ago now. I’ve come to Mzuzu to do some work. See Jenn left and I started thinking, I’ll see her soon, I don’t have much time left here. Only then I took it to the next level and started worrying about grad schools and moving out and TJ coming and my peace corps paperwork. I think I worried so much it caused my face to break out in hives. I think. It might not be hives. It might not be stress related. Could be an allergic reaction, though I didn’t think I was allergic to anything. Plan on seeing the doctors next week before I pick up TJ. We’ll see what they say. It’s starting to go away.
Another teacher was transfered from my school. I’m not sure if I’ve posted this already. It was the only woman we had. She was pretty awesome. Real nice, laughed at everything. So now we’re down to four plus me. I went to the division education manager with a letter from my headmaster to request more teachers. that was only a day or two ago though so no action has been taken. Atleast none that I know of. I hope I get replaced. They need it.
Jenn’s still in thailand. She went to Cambodia, said she loved it but super corrupt. Now I think she’s gone to visit Vietnam. From all her emails it really sounds like the place to be. Like the place to be. I’m a good bit jealous.
Blackle
by Dom on July 6th, 2008
So there’s this flyer here in the computer lab someone posted describing this site, Blackle.com. Apparently the premise is a Google with a black background instead of white. The idea being that white uses more energy to produce to by changing it to black your saving energy. Hence the “Watt hours saved” counter. I think it’s a great idea. Baby steps.
Grad Schools
by Dom on July 6th, 2008
So I’ve started doing some research on schools. I’ve narrowed it down to about 8 right now. As it is I would like to apply to them all, but we’ll see what I can afford. I’m a bit scared some are out of my league but I want to go for them anyway; I don’t want to sell myself short. I’m pretty excited. I’m going to email them soon to try to get a few questions answered. I hope to have finished applying by the time I return home but we’ll see how that goes. It’ll be a lot of work and traveling. I think my biggest setback will be my inability to edit my portfolio from here. Such is life though, we’ll see if they let it slide in lieu of my Peace Corps service. Anyway, here are the schools and locations in case your curious. And if you forgot, it’s industrial design that I am interested it.
Rhode Island School of Design - Providence
Art Center College of Design - Pasadena
Cranbrook Academy - Detroit
Pratt Institute - New York City
Carnegie Mellon - Pittsburgh
University of the Arts - Philly
Notre Dame - South Bend
Ohio State - Columbus
Gone
by Dom on July 3rd, 2008
Jenn left today. I’m sad. She’s traveling through southeast asia for a bit before heading home.