Weekend Plans

Since we have half days on Fridays, it's about time to leave the office. Before I go, I just wanted to let you all know that Jing and I will travel to Blantyre on Monday for a couple of days. Because we don't have the constant Internet access there that we enjoy at the office, the next blog update may have to wait until we get back on Thursday.

This weekend we are planning on going to the main market in Lilongwe. Most all of the clothes donated from the United States and Europe to Africa end up for sale at markets across the continent. I've already bought a t-shirt there and plan on buying some more cheap clothes. Who knows, maybe I'll end up wearing your old pants.

Also, an American graduate student we met a couple of weeks ago at The Golden Peacock is coming back to Lilongwe to hang out with us this weekend, so it should be fun to have the extra American company. She already has two masters degrees (cultural anthropology and public health) and is in Malawi doing preliminary research for her dissertation in medical anthropolgy.

N.B. We are working on getting more photos up on the blog. The website has been giving us some problems, but the photos Jing has already taken are really quite good.