I've lived at my house at Khwawa for a few weeks now and so far so good.
It's a small house with four rooms, an outdoor kitchen, shower, and latrine and we just recently got a fence around our yard. Woo!!
Luckily enough, our neighbor is a Peace Corps Volunteer from Texas who is starting his second year teaching at the school. He has been a huge help to us as we've gotten started. Seriously, I think I would be starving without him.
For water, we walk about 20 yds to the water pump. We have buckets that we fill up every so often and we even were able to buy a bucket with a nozzle. The nozzle is useful for washing our hands and for filling cups and pans.
A typical meal for us includes cooking on our mbaola (charcoal stove) or over an open fire. We eat a lot of rice, beans, and tomatoes! Sometimes we spring for a soda at the shop by the road and I'm very thankful for the Kool-Ade I brought from home! (hint hint ;)
Sorry the posts have been few and far between! I will try to post at least once every weekend. It's my plan to spend the weekends at Maji Zuwa or traveling around Malawi. This weekend I'm in Mzuzu with Sami and our PCV neighbor, Aaron.In Mzuzu we found pizza....and ICE CREAM!!! oooooh yeeeaaahhh. Also, we met two Ohians! One from the columbus area and one from Akron. What a small world!
