Returning Home

I just returned from my vacation to Malawi a couple of days ago. Four of us traveled to Cape Maclear to spend 4 or so nights just laying on the beach of Lake Malawi. It was a very nice and relatively cheap vacation that basically consisted of drinking, swimming, eating, and lying around. Not that I lead a high-stress life in the village or anything, but it's nice to get away for a spell to return to anonymity. The really great part of the vacation is that I esentially spent $150 for transport, food, and beverage for the 5 days that I was in Malawi.

After leaving Malawi I spent a couple of nights in Lusaka visiting friends there, and then I had a meeting with our Country Director. My friend Matt and I are hoping to (as I've mentioned before) extend our service another year to some other exotic location. It's sounding unlikely, but I'll keep hoping it happens. You'll all be welcome to visit me in Fiji if it pans out for yours truly.

Tomorrow I'll be starting off to my home village for the next month. I'm excited because next week we're going to try to host the 2-day bee keeping workshop again. I'll keep my fingers crossed that I get a better turn out this time. Hopefully the ending of the rainy season and the fact that there is plenty of food right now will combine to assure that I'll have a bunch of eager beaver students.

Slowly but surely I'm approaching the end of my term here in Zambia. In theory, I'll get pulled from my site in 4 months time and be out of Zambia in 4.5 months. Hopefully I'll be back home by early to mid-December so that I can go snowboarding out west before the holiday season gets underway.

Until we meet again...