Day-to-Day Activities

This is my half of the room, featuring me, my mosquito net, an empty water bottle collection, cereal boxes, peanut butter and my trusty blue backpack that I've taken to four continents. We spend a lot of time in the evenings here, relaxing after work.



This is the minibus stop in front of ADL House near where we work. We usually take one of these little vans--which hold up to 22 people, believe it or not--to and from work everyday. The drive is about 10 minutes and costs 50 Malawian Kwacha (about 35 cents). I'm pretty familiar with this type of transport, having ridden my fair share of matatus in Kenya and Uganda.



If we're lucky, we don't have to take the minibus and Alick drives us. I guess it just depends if our hostel is on the way for him. Something happened to his sedan and now he is driving a big farm truck around Lilongwe. He told us that he sold his sedan, but I told him he was lying, and he conceded. We still don't know what happened to the sedan, but I'll be sure to keep you posted. This picture was somewhere in between our initial shock of three-piece-suit-wearing Alick driving one of these trucks, our fleeting concerns about the vehicles safety and our realization that "after 5 o'clock, it's okay to tell lies."



This is pretty representative of what we've been doing the past few days: reading. There is a lot of interesting stuff that we have found on the FHI server and in their resource room. Jing is reading up on the requirements to receive antiretroviral therapy from the government.