Tonight I participated in the killing of goat. It wasn’t a pleasant experience. There was a shortage of food, so we went to the goat pen late in the evening to pick out a plump one. There was a lot of extra people over because my village mother’s brother died, and a lot family from [...]
Archive for August, 2011
Of Life and Death, but mostly death: Part 2- The fate of Jimmy the Goat
Posted in Random Stories, tagged Africa, International Development, Malawi, Travel on August 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Of Life and Death, but mostly death: Part 1- The magic of a newborn baby
Posted in Random Stories, tagged Africa, International Development, Malawi, Travel on August 28, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Remember my village sister Alice cooking by the fire from a couple posts back? http://whatyoumightbemissing.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/oh-right-stuff-gets-hard-sometimes/I was wondering about her struggles, and thinking that I should make an effort to find out more about her, instead being stuck in my head with my own troubles. After all that, and living with her for two months, I [...]
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