Too many to choose from this time round! I have a whole list of nominations!
1. Teaching one of the local girls, S. a few chords on the ukelele, and discovering that she is an absolute natural! She is quite shy to speak to me in English, but comes back every afternoon to play a little ukelele… :)
2. Taking the girls outside to practice their spellings with a word search, and putting on some Florence and the Machine while we worked. Hearing N. start to hum along, seeing the younger one start to ‘shake it out’ just a little. Eventually ending up having a mini-morning dance party :)
3. Moving in to my new house with my new roomie on Friday! :) Watching Revolutionary Road , munching melty Cadbury, and slapping mosquitoes on the konde (patio). Ending the film, both taking a deep breath, and offering up thanks to the gods that we were sitting on a konde in Malawi and not… well…. On Revolutionary Road…
4. Bicycling to the next town with my roomie to get provisions! (ahem… read: chocolate, biscuits, and crisps! Hehe). Buying my very first Chitenje! And wearing it out later! (Pics to come when my camera arrives…)
5. A dinner party with new friends. Sitting around, gazing at the stars, having some good chats. The bliss of realizing that there is no place I would rather be. The yearning of wishing all my loved ones could share it with me.
1. Teaching one of the local girls, S. a few chords on the ukelele, and discovering that she is an absolute natural! She is quite shy to speak to me in English, but comes back every afternoon to play a little ukelele… :)
2. Taking the girls outside to practice their spellings with a word search, and putting on some Florence and the Machine while we worked. Hearing N. start to hum along, seeing the younger one start to ‘shake it out’ just a little. Eventually ending up having a mini-morning dance party :)
3. Moving in to my new house with my new roomie on Friday! :) Watching Revolutionary Road , munching melty Cadbury, and slapping mosquitoes on the konde (patio). Ending the film, both taking a deep breath, and offering up thanks to the gods that we were sitting on a konde in Malawi and not… well…. On Revolutionary Road…
4. Bicycling to the next town with my roomie to get provisions! (ahem… read: chocolate, biscuits, and crisps! Hehe). Buying my very first Chitenje! And wearing it out later! (Pics to come when my camera arrives…)
5. A dinner party with new friends. Sitting around, gazing at the stars, having some good chats. The bliss of realizing that there is no place I would rather be. The yearning of wishing all my loved ones could share it with me.
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