im alive and doing good in dedza. the computers here are soo slow so no pictures until next week when i go to lilongwe.
so i'll make this quick.
our house is lovely except no floor so ants everywhere, cold buckets of water are our shower and the long drop makes me want to spew everytime i go near it.
but the kids in our wee square are lovely, coming round to play almost an annoying amount. i have a video of them dancing to the 50 cent song 'In Da Club' which is the funniest thing i've ever seen.
The school is nice, but sooo many kids, there's about 90 in my class. and if you offer to mark anything then you get every child wanting all of their work marked, and they crowd around you until you've finished. scary stuff.
still missing home a bit but starting to love it here, everyone is so friendly and happy and we've been making good friends.
i have literally hundreds of pictures, and amazing funny ones of the kids so i'll try and post them next week!
xx
Friday 15 January 2010
Sunday 10 January 2010
shoprite
the other day was hatty's birthday, they served her a surprise cake at lunchtime, which she skillfully managed to split between 24 of us.
here's the bronze rooms. actual guinea pig hutch. and inside they look like cells.
then we took our first ever trip to shoprite, which is like the malawi asda. big mistake. im horrific in supermarkets, literally try to buy everything. as you'd know if you were with me when shopping for sweden or any halloween event.
this is me looking like a tool, walking to shoprite. we got heckled all the way. and wee kids come up to you to beg for money so its quite upsetting. i dont look upset because id only just left the hotel :] all smiles.
left to right, alison, mhairi, hatty
shoprite yaaaay. i have no pictures from outside because there were SOOO many hecklers and people and i felt like a tourist. this is some dried fish. all my shoprite pictures are like this.
the brand of coffee is named coffee, this had me laughing for hours. think im heatstroked.
THEY SELL CHICKENS FEET
this is our torrential rain, soooo heavy. and we always leave it too late to run back to our rooms so end up getting drenched. not funny.
we had a free afternoon yesterday so played in the pool. my SKILLED photography caught this bad boy shot [after about 60 tries]. this is rob jumping in the pool and catching the little rocket thing at the same time. im terrible at explaining.
anyhow, im leaving for dedza any minute now and have to go grab all my stuff. slept in as usual and had to rush my last proper shower. won't be able to post a blog until i go to lilongwe on a weekend, the internet in dedza is meant to be painfully slow and you have to pay per minute, so i doubt its happening. i have no patience.
if these pictures have gone stupidly big again then im sorry, i tried to fix them! i'll try and sort it out next time.
here's the only chichewa words i can remember after our extensive lessons:
moni bambo! [hello to a boy.] im going to succeed in dedza clearly.
miss you's all [some people here have never heard the word 'yous' before, i was like 'but what do you do if you're speaking to more than one person?" and then received an english lesson. advanced higher english obviously never registered in my head.] xx
sick of korea
think iv figured out how to fix my photos but im not posting any until i can get to a faster computer, cause this is doing my head in!
im leaving for dedza tomorrow at 8, so have to get up at like 6 to have my last proper shower, gutting. i have photos of our shopping trip the other day and the rain here, which is straight up and down rain and insane.
i'll post something when i can, and gonna try and send out some letters too.
excited to get to dedza though and paint our house, and im sick of the korean food we're getting in our hotel, i've had the same meal every night almost, and they give you mountains of it so you have to feel rude when you hand back a plate that looks full.
the staff here are lovely though, really friendly and smiley.
actual shattered and gonna go sit by the pool with everyone else. i'll try and post more photos soon!
miss home so much! x
im leaving for dedza tomorrow at 8, so have to get up at like 6 to have my last proper shower, gutting. i have photos of our shopping trip the other day and the rain here, which is straight up and down rain and insane.
i'll post something when i can, and gonna try and send out some letters too.
excited to get to dedza though and paint our house, and im sick of the korean food we're getting in our hotel, i've had the same meal every night almost, and they give you mountains of it so you have to feel rude when you hand back a plate that looks full.
the staff here are lovely though, really friendly and smiley.
actual shattered and gonna go sit by the pool with everyone else. i'll try and post more photos soon!
miss home so much! x
Saturday 9 January 2010
on verge of killing someone.
after honestly 2 days of trying and almost throwing this computer at the wall, i FINALLY have some of my pictures up. need to find an easier way of doing this though or i will spend all my days here screaming.
so hereeeee they are for you, if this doesnt work then im coming back home.
they're in the wrong order but bear with it!
my heavy heavy bags. was about to spew on the london underground just by how heavy they were. i helpfully said this out loud to my mum, on a packed train. my mum was like "are you alright" and i go "actually need to spew right now" perfect.
standard plane photo. travelling from lusaka to lilongwe. we landed in lusaka and had to wait on the plane for 45 minutes. i spent the whole plane journey to lusaka going "OH MY GOD WE'RE ON THE WRONG PLANE" i was just being an idiot though cause we were 'in transit'
how safe our compound is...
we are literally in a cage.
this is mhairi, she's from edinburgh and knows what cav is! she's going to be living with me in dedza [we go on monday] and these are weird ornaments in the restaurant bit. where i have been served the same veggie meal every night and lunch.
our massive table for the 21 of us. ridiculously big.
im living in the 'gold' part of the hotel, which is 2nd best. we have a hot shower and carpets! and even a tv that we've not used, and a fan. pretty classy stuff really. the bronze roomers have a shared shower for all of them, like lino floor i think, no electricity and one of the boys roofs caved in and his bed got infested by ants. gutted.
malawi mr guins! i asked the restaurant waiter what the cats name was, but he only got his job here about 2 days ago, he said he'd find out for me though. there's tons of cats here, and there's meant to be thousands in dedza.
this was us getting off the plane in lilongwe FINALLY. worst travel of my lifeeee.
our amaaaazing pool, that iv not been in yet. but it looks nice.
leaving lusaka airport, or landing in lilongwe, who actually knows? i was on the verge of crying if i had to see another safety video.
so hereeeee they are for you, if this doesnt work then im coming back home.
they're in the wrong order but bear with it!
my heavy heavy bags. was about to spew on the london underground just by how heavy they were. i helpfully said this out loud to my mum, on a packed train. my mum was like "are you alright" and i go "actually need to spew right now" perfect.
standard plane photo. travelling from lusaka to lilongwe. we landed in lusaka and had to wait on the plane for 45 minutes. i spent the whole plane journey to lusaka going "OH MY GOD WE'RE ON THE WRONG PLANE" i was just being an idiot though cause we were 'in transit'
how safe our compound is...
we are literally in a cage.
this is mhairi, she's from edinburgh and knows what cav is! she's going to be living with me in dedza [we go on monday] and these are weird ornaments in the restaurant bit. where i have been served the same veggie meal every night and lunch.
our massive table for the 21 of us. ridiculously big.
im living in the 'gold' part of the hotel, which is 2nd best. we have a hot shower and carpets! and even a tv that we've not used, and a fan. pretty classy stuff really. the bronze roomers have a shared shower for all of them, like lino floor i think, no electricity and one of the boys roofs caved in and his bed got infested by ants. gutted.
malawi mr guins! i asked the restaurant waiter what the cats name was, but he only got his job here about 2 days ago, he said he'd find out for me though. there's tons of cats here, and there's meant to be thousands in dedza.
this was us getting off the plane in lilongwe FINALLY. worst travel of my lifeeee.
our amaaaazing pool, that iv not been in yet. but it looks nice.
leaving lusaka airport, or landing in lilongwe, who actually knows? i was on the verge of crying if i had to see another safety video.
Friday 8 January 2010
actual deedza
after about 20 billion hours travelling [and nearly taking some woman out the game on the plane when the flight attendant woke me up] im finally here. though not at my actual school yet, we're staying in a korean hotel type thing, thats proper nice. not exactly preparing us for the wild...
been having language lessons [and failing so much, its like standard grade french all over again.] and finding out stuff about where we're staying. our house doesn't have a floor. literally walking in the mud. gutting, but it'll be an experience.
everyone's lovelyy and its sooo green here its unreal. we passed tons of trucks with people just crowded into the trunk bit, singing. and about a million police just casually standing at the side of the road. its not THAT hot here, like iv been freezing sometimes. but its not exactly snowing.
cant get the stupid photo uploader to work and every other way iv tried is taking an ageeee! so sorry caro and steve for no photos, but i'll put them up when im next at an internet place. but caro, jsyk i found a malawi meow, its more of a mr guins though :]
love you all xxxxxxxxxx
been having language lessons [and failing so much, its like standard grade french all over again.] and finding out stuff about where we're staying. our house doesn't have a floor. literally walking in the mud. gutting, but it'll be an experience.
everyone's lovelyy and its sooo green here its unreal. we passed tons of trucks with people just crowded into the trunk bit, singing. and about a million police just casually standing at the side of the road. its not THAT hot here, like iv been freezing sometimes. but its not exactly snowing.
cant get the stupid photo uploader to work and every other way iv tried is taking an ageeee! so sorry caro and steve for no photos, but i'll put them up when im next at an internet place. but caro, jsyk i found a malawi meow, its more of a mr guins though :]
love you all xxxxxxxxxx
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