Immediately following my sister's departure back to the states I followed my friends to Senga Bay. We stayed at Carolinas but WARNING my friends had over 100 stolen out of their bags in the locked hotel room...the owners of the place were out of town so that might have had something to do with it but I personally will not go there again. It was a cheaper place for PCVs to stay but not if
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Tuesday March 30th I met Tenley in Mzuzu and we stayed at the CCAP Resthouse. It is a relatively inexpensive dormlike place to stay near the bus depot. We thought it would be easy to get to Nchenachena and start our hike after that the following day this was a mistake.We should have stayed in Nchenachena and started our hike early in the morning since the first hike is without passing any wate
So we did a 9 day tour with Kiboko based out of Lilongwe Malawi. It was greatMy sister and I left Lilongwe March 1st with another PCV and her dad a doctor from the UK a guy from Holland a driver and one of the managers of Kiboko which is the name of the tour company we used based in Lilongwe and we traveled to Luangwa Valley. We stayed at a campsite in South Luangwa National Park for 2 fu
January was relatively slow...I spent the entire month at site with the exception of the weekend of the 31st were I slipped away to see New Moon in Blanytre and attend a VSV function with my Peace Corps friends. It was nice to be at site and with the new students I kept myself busy. Of course Nsanje is HOTFor a while there we were unsure if we would actually get students...the first week we o
Okay it has been a while I feel like I start with that sentence a lotFirst of all I HAVE FROGS LIVING IN MY TOILET. Well maybe they live in the plumbing I thought this was an appropriate way to start my blog off for the last 2 months because for me it is a very big dilemma....To flush or not to flush that is the question. I wont tell you what I usually end up doing...I am just worried
Project holiday denial this was my goal all through the holidays. It is WAY too HOT to be Christmas time Instead I decided to pretend I was just on summer vacation. Here is what I didWell first I had to show up in Lilongwe a few days early because I was sent a message that there were some problems with my proposal mainly the location of the PLHIV Resource Centre. So Melanie and I paid
SOOOOOOOOOO....I know I failed this time. I have not been on this page in months SorryI don't have much to say about December. My birthday on the 6th was nice and quiet and Thanksgiving was it's usual brand of PCCrazy. BUT after Halloween I did a few interesting things. My Christmas adventure is on the next blogFor instance just after Chitipa I had a few days to kill before going to L
I had a unique Christmas this year. Katie Alisha and I managed to find transport to Lilongwe on the Thursday before Christmas. On the way we saw these guys standing on the side of the road with what we thought were umbrellas. Alisha finally told us they were actually mushrooms and we pulled over and bought a few. That evening dinner was amazing and I am still shocked at how enormous mushrooms
So Judy Cathy and I flew from Malawi to Jo'Burg a few days ago. It was a packed flight. They even made us check our carryon luggage under the plane poor Don. He was the guy who took my backpack. I told him that I would be naked for 2 weeks if he lost my bag and that I would come back and visit him if it happened...In hindsight maybe that wasn't so nice. Then when we got to Jo'burg we w
Okay it has been a while I feel like I start with that sentence a lotFirst of all I HAVE FROGS LIVING IN MY TOILET. Well maybe they live in the plumbing I thought this was an appropriate way to start my blog off for the last 2 months because for me it is a very big dilemma....To flush or not to flush that is the question. I wont tell you what I usually end up doing...I am just worried
Sorry it has been a while.So for an update. I went home as a surprise to everyone except my dad in May. It was great and I really enjoyed going around confusing people. I even visited WV and NYC while in the states apart from NC. It was great and I ate A LOT. I was worried that when I returned to Malawi I wouldn't be able to adjust back but it turned out that it was a lot easier than I t
I barely got home from Camp GLOW before I had to come right back out of site for a Strategic Planning Conference in Blantyre. From Monday August 17th through Friday August 21st we stayed at the Kabula Hill Lodge. I really loved the Lodge and all of the people running it. They were really sweet and very helpful. The Lodge is nice and well located in my opinion not too far from the Peace Corps
Happy HalloweenIt seems like forever since I have been on here You know I had this halfway decent entry already written to just copy and paste on to this blog and since I have Vista on my computer it is NEVER compatible with anything and I have to always reformat all my documents...SO of course I forgot to do that this time...BUT I have plenty of pictures. Sorry none of Halloween though.I a
Okay folks this is going to be a short one...I am supposed to be on here looking up NUTRITION facts because I will be teaching ALL next week by myself. 20 hours on Nutrition...Yikes.Not to mention the most recent Nutrition textbook in our library is from like 1963...BUT I did find one book titled Nutrition For Developing Countries by Felicity Savage King and Ann Burgess which is actually rel
It doesn't really feel like December here...100 degrees rains floods and cholera. BUT I did have a great Thanksgiving and BirthdayAt Thanksgiving we were invited to the Ambassador's house. Unfortunately we had pork instead of turkey but there was still PLENTY to eat. AND a pool By 4pm I was absolutely worthless and I went back to the transit house with a handful of others to lounge ar
I know it looks like all my entries are from Lilongwe I promise I don't spend all my time here...Hey everyone So for the last two weeks I have been traveling like crazy. I first traveled to Blantyre and then to my site in Nsanje. I didnrsquot take any pictures of my housesite because I didnrsquot get to stay in it but I did at least get to get a quick look around. Maybe in the next fe
HeySo I arrived in Lilongwe this past Wednesday. I came up with some people from the office so that was a nice way to travel...Beats the matolaAnyway so I have been very busy. 2 weeks ago I had to teach 20 hours of Nutrition. It was my first time meeting these kids I say kids but they were all my age maybe older and then they were stuck with me 4 hours a day in the MORNING all week. I am
Alright. So we sworein yesterday so I am officially a Volunteer. A few of my friends left today to move in to their sites and I will leave tomorrow with the other 2 nurses. However I probably will not actually get to my site until Saturday because I am the farthest volunteer to the south. Anyway the swearing in was a little rushed but awsome because it was at the ambassador's house and l
Happy ThanksgivingMaybe this weekend I will have pictures of Thanksgiving up...we will see how transport is. I hope to be back at my site by Monday since I got a ride with one of the Ambulances the only way to travel ha. Don't worry I am not sick.Soo TODAY I am very excited because all the Peace Corps Volunteers are going to the Ambassador's house for Thanksgiving. There is supposed to b
Whew. Not much to say about February. Same old same old. The students have not come back yet but there is a RUMOR that the students will all be coming back on Monday. We are now 8 weeks behind so there is no way that they can catch up so the calendar will probably be pushed back. That means the new students will probably not arrive until June or so and all my travel plans are going to have
I barely got home from Camp GLOW before I had to come right back out of site for a Strategic Planning Conference in Blantyre. From Monday August 17th through Friday August 21st we stayed at the Kabula Hill Lodge. I really loved the Lodge and all of the people running it. They were really sweet and very helpful. The Lodge is nice and well located in my opinion not too far from the Peace Corps
So for the last week my health group and I have been holding our annual Camp GLOW. This is a camp for secondary school girls implemented by Peace Corps Volunteers worldwide. But before that I kept myself busy. I came back from holiday to the college and spent about 2 weeks teaching MedicalSurgical Nursing and budgeting with the college staff for some sort of Strategic Plan that will be conducte
So Judy Cathy and I flew from Malawi to Jo'Burg a few days ago. It was a packed flight. They even made us check our carryon luggage under the plane poor Don. He was the guy who took my backpack. I told him that I would be naked for 2 weeks if he lost my bag and that I would come back and visit him if it happened...In hindsight maybe that wasn't so nice. Then when we got to Jo'burg we w
NAMIBIA Namibia was wonderful. VERY different from Malawi. Even though our plane was delayed in Cape Town it was no problem to get to our hotel in Windhoek. There are plenty of taxis and a shuttle eager to take you to Windhoek. HOWEVER it would be good to ask someone who works at the airport what the real price for taxis are before negotiating with the taxirsquoshellipWe stayed at the
Sorry it has been a while.So for an update. I went home as a surprise to everyone except my dad in May. It was great and I really enjoyed going around confusing people. I even visited WV and NYC while in the states apart from NC. It was great and I ate A LOT. I was worried that when I returned to Malawi I wouldn't be able to adjust back but it turned out that it was a lot easier than I t
Hey everyone So I just finished up my preservice training today....It was peachy. There are 22 of us leaving for Malawi tomorrow. Most are around my age in their earlymid twenties but not everyone. I am only one of three licensed nurses going but everyone leaving will be contributing to improving the health of Malawi. I thought that I would post something on here tonight since I will be o
Happy HalloweenIt seems like forever since I have been on here You know I had this halfway decent entry already written to just copy and paste on to this blog and since I have Vista on my computer it is NEVER compatible with anything and I have to always reformat all my documents...SO of course I forgot to do that this time...BUT I have plenty of pictures. Sorry none of Halloween though.I a
Hey everyoneSo this is the first time I have been near a computer since I got to Malawi and of course I don't have much time I don't want to be out after dark here. Anyway I love it here Right now I am living in a village south of Lilongwe. Training is hard and I am not the best at foreign languages but I really am excited. This Saturday we will find out where we will be stationed for
Okay so I have a lot of pictures that I really want to put on the internet so we will see how many actually download. Otherwise I am going to try to send a few of them via email if it is fasterhellipAnyway for the last 5 or 6 weeks I have been living at a college in Dedza andor in a village called Zuze not far from the college also in the Dedza district. At the college I lived in a hostel
HeySo I arrived in Lilongwe this past Wednesday. I came up with some people from the office so that was a nice way to travel...Beats the matolaAnyway so I have been very busy. 2 weeks ago I had to teach 20 hours of Nutrition. It was my first time meeting these kids I say kids but they were all my age maybe older and then they were stuck with me 4 hours a day in the MORNING all week. I am
I have been very busy this monthA short recapAt the beginning of April I attended a Malawi Blood Transfusion training in Lilongwe. It ended up being only myself and one other volunteer Tessa... A lot of people had come into town for a camp GLOW fundraiser and therefore did not plan to go to the training. My friend and I thought it would be sooo weird and boring because it was just the two o
Hey Picture time We arrived in Lilongwe this morning but 22 people trying to cram onto 5 computers...well chaos. I have not seen any crocs yetLilongwe is not quite what I expected...I have been without StarbucksCoffee that is not instant since..I miss cheese and chocolate. Okay other than that I am staying in a village not far from Dedza in a village without electricty and running wat
Hello all I hope things are good in the states Here time is moving but probably not the same speed as it is back home. We swore in and became official Peace Corps Volunteers Wednesday July 23rd. The next day nearly my entire group departed Lilongwe for their respective sites. I unfortunately had an interview with a representative of the Board of Nursing and Midwifery Counsel or whatever
It doesn't really feel like December here...100 degrees rains floods and cholera. BUT I did have a great Thanksgiving and BirthdayAt Thanksgiving we were invited to the Ambassador's house. Unfortunately we had pork instead of turkey but there was still PLENTY to eat. AND a pool By 4pm I was absolutely worthless and I went back to the transit house with a handful of others to lounge ar
This month has been very SLOW. I guess looking at the pictures it appears that I have done a lot but I feel like I have not. The students were supposed to arrive back to school January 5th. Unfortunately they have not yet returned. I do not want to get into too much detail right now because I think that things have become political with the elections coming up in a few monthshellipbut it al
I had a unique Christmas this year. Katie Alisha and I managed to find transport to Lilongwe on the Thursday before Christmas. On the way we saw these guys standing on the side of the road with what we thought were umbrellas. Alisha finally told us they were actually mushrooms and we pulled over and bought a few. That evening dinner was amazing and I am still shocked at how enormous mushrooms
Hey againSo I have spent the last 4 weeks in Blantyre doing an orientation at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. It has not been my favorite thing to do so far in Malawi but I have learned a lot. And I have seen a lot but I will spare you the gory details.Usually my typical day MondayFriday consists of me getting up around 6am. Putting on my lovely nursersquos uniform. Walking about a mile uphil
Whew I have been BUSY. SO. Basically after Halloween I went and sparred at the Buddhist Temple. That was fun and the students children there are VERY TALENTED. Like back flips talented. Katie Brian Danny other PCVs and I got a great ride up to Dedza Sunday the 2nd. There we met up with the remaining volunteers from our health group. We had lost 3 volunteers they terminated early...t
Alright. So we sworein yesterday so I am officially a Volunteer. A few of my friends left today to move in to their sites and I will leave tomorrow with the other 2 nurses. However I probably will not actually get to my site until Saturday because I am the farthest volunteer to the south. Anyway the swearing in was a little rushed but awsome because it was at the ambassador's house and l
Happy ThanksgivingMaybe this weekend I will have pictures of Thanksgiving up...we will see how transport is. I hope to be back at my site by Monday since I got a ride with one of the Ambulances the only way to travel ha. Don't worry I am not sick.Soo TODAY I am very excited because all the Peace Corps Volunteers are going to the Ambassador's house for Thanksgiving. There is supposed to b
I know it looks like all my entries are from Lilongwe I promise I don't spend all my time here...Hey everyone So for the last two weeks I have been traveling like crazy. I first traveled to Blantyre and then to my site in Nsanje. I didnrsquot take any pictures of my housesite because I didnrsquot get to stay in it but I did at least get to get a quick look around. Maybe in the next fe
Okay folks this is going to be a short one...I am supposed to be on here looking up NUTRITION facts because I will be teaching ALL next week by myself. 20 hours on Nutrition...Yikes.Not to mention the most recent Nutrition textbook in our library is from like 1963...BUT I did find one book titled Nutrition For Developing Countries by Felicity Savage King and Ann Burgess which is actually rel
So I should start with the bad news and get it out of the way. I think I heard somewhere that bad things come in threes...My three this month in no particular order are my ipod was stolen my garden was destroyed and my boyfriend broke up with me. As for the first there is not much to say...I was really sick A lovely case of viral gastroenteritis and while I was passed out in between my s
I made it BUT I am getting ready to leave our Southern Sun hotel to get back on a plane to Malawi...I have not pictures this area is super industrialized around the airport so there is really nothing to take a picture of. Plus we were told to STAY IN THE HOTEL. Anyway I hope that I will be able to find some time and electricityinternet access to post something during training
Whew. Not much to say about February. Same old same old. The students have not come back yet but there is a RUMOR that the students will all be coming back on Monday. We are now 8 weeks behind so there is no way that they can catch up so the calendar will probably be pushed back. That means the new students will probably not arrive until June or so and all my travel plans are going to have
I have been very busy this monthA short recapAt the beginning of April I attended a Malawi Blood Transfusion training in Lilongwe. It ended up being only myself and one other volunteer Tessa... A lot of people had come into town for a camp GLOW fundraiser and therefore did not plan to go to the training. My friend and I thought it would be sooo weird and boring because it was just the two o
So I should start with the bad news and get it out of the way. I think I heard somewhere that bad things come in threes...My three this month in no particular order are my ipod was stolen my garden was destroyed and my boyfriend broke up with me. As for the first there is not much to say...I was really sick A lovely case of viral gastroenteritis and while I was passed out in between my s
Whew. Not much to say about February. Same old same old. The students have not come back yet but there is a RUMOR that the students will all be coming back on Monday. We are now 8 weeks behind so there is no way that they can catch up so the calendar will probably be pushed back. That means the new students will probably not arrive until June or so and all my travel plans are going to have
This month has been very SLOW. I guess looking at the pictures it appears that I have done a lot but I feel like I have not. The students were supposed to arrive back to school January 5th. Unfortunately they have not yet returned. I do not want to get into too much detail right now because I think that things have become political with the elections coming up in a few monthshellipbut it al
I had a unique Christmas this year. Katie Alisha and I managed to find transport to Lilongwe on the Thursday before Christmas. On the way we saw these guys standing on the side of the road with what we thought were umbrellas. Alisha finally told us they were actually mushrooms and we pulled over and bought a few. That evening dinner was amazing and I am still shocked at how enormous mushrooms
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