A typical view driving into the “Capital City”, or downtown Lilongwe.
Here is our little house at Ufulu Gardens, where we have been for the past month, but not for much longer!
And if you turn 180 degrees from the picture above, and peer
through the plants, and over the no-man’s land barbwire you can see my
closest Malawian [...]
Food is probably my number one delight in our African life thus far.
(which isn’t really saying much, as we have been working our butts off
and haven’t seen _anything_ of Malawi yet) The supermarkets here are
great. There are a lot of them, and they are full of everything you
need. In the future it will be fun [...]
I saw this yesterday on a local bulletin board:
And here I was thinking I could bring some new entreprenuerial ideas to Malawi!
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Claudia is not dead, she is just in a meeting.
She was supposed to be home over an hour ago. She is never late. So, for the last hour I have been standing in front of the window, feeling my blood pressure rise higher as each minute ticks by.
I am not someone prone to worrying. But [...]
I am sitting here doing my work, as Georgina, our servant cleans up the mess that Claudia and I invariably make everyday. She gets a call on her mobile phone and then goes outside to take it. She returns and tells me that her 7 year old son has been taken to the hospital. He [...]
Apologies faithful readers for my long absence. It has been nonstop travel for the last 6 weeks, but I am now finally here in Lilongwe at my final destination.
They seem to be giving me the authentic African experience here. It has been less than a week, and there has already been an assassination attempt on [...]
8 hours by car from Reno to LA. 10 hours from LA to London. 1.5 from London to Oxford. 1.5 from Oxford to London. 3 to Rome then 6 to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Wait around for 15 hours). 5 hours to Harare, Zimbabwe and then 1.5 to Lilongwe. The grand total: 36.5 hours spent on [...]
