I'm Authorised!

I can finally drive here in Malawi! After 4 months of haggling and harrassing and whining to my coworker, he's finally authorised me to drive! Actually, it's because I did none of those things that he has allowed me to drive the only automatic car in our lot - the beautiful Toyota Corolla. I think he was feeling tremendous pity that I still had not learned to drive a manual car, so allowing me to drive the automatic was sort of a consolation prize. It was actually pretty big news at the office, because I was the only azungu who could not drive. haha. Now, all I've got to do is learn to drive a stick, otherwise I'll never be able to drive out into the fields, and I'll have to continue biking to church (the church is practically in a dirt field).

Well, at least I have transportation options now! Holla!

The Lunch Club

Here are work, we have something called the Lunch Club. Every month, people will chip in 500 kwacha (equivalent to about $3.75) and we get lunch for the month. Of course, those of us in the Lunch Club have to prepare the food, and we're not eating Wolfgang Puck quality food here. I don't even think it can qualify as fast food quality. haha. It is pretty much nsima and some side dish, usually vegetables or these tiny little fish called usipa (which my coworkers never feed me anymore because I almost gagged the first time I ate it). Anyway, the women always make fun of the guys when they try to cook because quite frankly, they are not very good. Even the guys will say "We cook like bachelors. Just well enough so that we can eat it." Well, today, there were no girls around, so all the guys were in charge of preparation and cooking. And let me just say, it is true. Guys cook just well enough so that the food is edible, but it's pretty much the blandest, unsightly looking food you'll ever eat. hahaha!

On another note, Malawians have hands of steel. They will just take the lid (that has no knob or handle!) off a boiling pot of water without the use of towels. And to test the temperature of the water, they'll just stick a spoon in there and drip some water on their arm! They wanted to drip some water on my arm to give me the full Malawian experience. Heck no!!! I saw that water boiling like crazy in the pot! Ain't no way I was putting that on my arm!

True Love

Apart from Christ, there is always one man who will capture the heart of a woman. Be it a celebrity, an athlete, or the neighbour next door, there is one man who can make a girl's heart go aflutter, pitter patter. What if we lived in a world where we could have any man we choose, and he could not refuse? What is it about society that dictates it has to be the man who chooses the girl, who chases after her...especially in the Christian context.

What if we lived in this sort of world!

click me!

If this is how it worked in Canada, then I would have offered a plate of fresh fish to my first crush at the age of 13, we would have been married by now, and I would have a litter of beautiful black babies. haha. Just kidding!

How interesting is this though? Especially the comment where this one guy says "Love comes first into the heart of the woman. Once it's in the woman, only then can it jump into the man."