Archive for July, 2007

My work placements…

July 14, 2007

Make a habit of regularly observing the universal process of change: be assiduous in your attention to it and school yourself thoroughly in this branch of study: there is nothing more elevating to the mind.
- Marcus Aurelius
(INTRAC Occasional Papers Series No: 43 – Leaders Changing Inside-Out: What Causes Leaders to Change Behaviour? Cases from Malawian Civil [...]

Team Malawi JF retreat

July 12, 2007

While I was online, I thought I’d mention I just recently returned from Senga Bay which is off beautiful Lake Malawi. It was the Engineers Without Borders JF Retreat where I got to catch up with all the fellow Malawi volunteers and EWB staff. Besides having some teambuilding, experience sharing, and action planning [...]

Bottle cap blues

July 12, 2007

Zaboh! (Popular youth greeting here in Lilongwe)
I just had a few extra minutes to be on the Internet here since some meetings were implicitly cancelled, so I wanted to share an amusing experience…
The other week I had a chance to meet Ester, who is the sister to my host father, Leonard.

Ester is studying agribusiness [...]