6 Months Later… What Sucks About Being in Malawi?

I mostly write about nice stories and feelings and stuff, so I want to balance out the perspective a bit as the half-way mark of my time here passes. A lot of people say that the 6 month mark is when a sort of long-stay culture shock can set in. For me I wouldn’t call [...]

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Of Life and Death, but mostly death: Part 3- The Last Part

You sit and wait, and wait and sit, and shift your weight, and sit and wait some more. Just when you think your butt can’t get any more sore from the hard ground, everyone suddenly stands. Dust and dirt is brushed off everyone’s stiff limbs, and off everyone’s nicest set of clothes. There are hundreds [...]

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