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baaaaad picture of me, good one of Wezi (really shows her personality)
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Thoko has been teaching me to cook. Here it's eggplant with an incredible amount of oil (people in Malawi LOVE oil and it's made the white girl very fat).
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Memory ("Memo")
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Malawian Independence Day, July 6 at the Gondwes (DEADLY boring television of the president's Indep. Day celebration which was just a political rally, thinly-veiled)
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Though avocadoes are plentiful here, the Gondwes had never had guacamole. So I made it as my contribution to the Independence Day festivities (both U.S. and Malawian).
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hittin' the guac
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Thoko packing up in my bedroom in the big house
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Joseph my guard in the front yard of the house on the mountain
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My move made a big scene - here backing up is the prison lorry to move me!
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Prison lorry, rolling over the garden
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Prison dudes loading beds
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My 2 guards, Joseph and Edson (who I fired when I left the mountain house b/c he carved his name into my porch chair with a knife)
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mattress with one hand
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Thoko chillaxing waiting for the lorry to arrive
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one of the spare bedrooms in my house
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happiness is a kitchen full of friends
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tower of Hiram
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we're at the Botanic Gardens, one of my favorite places in Zomba
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Assiatu
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me and Nelia
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@ my friend Jac's house, Hiram, Jac and her son Effort
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Jac's daughter Comfort
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Memory and Wezi with Onkolo
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Here's hoping
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came into my room to find a Wezi hiding in my wardrobe
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Wezilicious
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Sunday night masking
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Everything in Malawi is made by hand - including screens for my windows!
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Mr. Gondwe, "supervising"
