Projects

The internet has been out at the District Assembly for the past two weeks, so that's the reason for the delay in the posting. I'm in Lilongwe now trying to get some work done. One of the things I'm trying to do is get some funding for the nutrition education training project I mentioned in my last post. My boss at Peace Corps was really receptive and seemed to think it'd be fairly simple to receive funding for the project. He's really ambitious and thinks we could have everything ready to do the training by mid-November. I'm thinking it probably won't happen until December or January. But it will happen and that's all that matters.
I have a cat now, I got her last weekend. She's a bit small, maybe too small but she'll survive. She's 5-6 weeks old and I was really worried the first night because she refused to eat and she just kept crying. Finally after force-feeding her (sorry Amy) every few hours she finally started to eat and now won't stop. She's ridiculous: she doesn't know what shadows are and tries to attack them, she falls over sometimes for no reason and she climbs up my legs if I'm wearing pants and then cries when she gets stuck halfway. Silly cat.
I've made some more friends at the Assembly since my friend Immaculate went north to Mzuzu for college. They're mostly guys (in fact, I think they all are), but that's not very surprising since most of the people who work at the Assembly are men. We talk about life and make jokes (sarcasm, unfortunately is not as appreciated here as it is in the U.S.).
It's getting a little warmer in Thyolo but not as warm as it is here in Lilongwe or even Blantyre. The people who live in Thyolo say that it is usually pretty cool, even during the hot season. Well, at least compared to the rest of the country. So, I am relieved because the place where I lived in Togo got very, very, very hot. Sometimes it was hard to fall asleep at night.
I took some pictures and had every intention of putting them up on my blog since I have a fast internet connection here in the captial, but I forgot the gadget (don't know what it's called) for downloading them onto the computer. But I promise that I will put them up soon.