December 2013

1 - Walking into the new Mzuzu Shoprite
2 - Watching Rambo
3 - My new solar light in my living room
4 - Pounding coffee beans
5 - Lighting my mbaula (yay fire starters)
6 - Frying Spam
7 - Baking cake
8 - Cleaning dishes
9 - Writing letters
10 - Riding home from Uliwa
11 - Chilling at Ngara Resort
12 - Skype with Duffy
13 - Grading university exams
14 - Riding down with students from UniLia
15 - Hitch through Ngara trading center
16 - Rain at night
17 - Burning incense
18 - Reading
19 - Collecting rain
20 - Walking through Thunduti
21 - Uploading Tako's obituary
22 - Rain at Maji Zuwa
23 - Arranging a care package for the photo
24 - Christmas Eve at Mushroom Farm
25 - The view from Livingstonia
26 - Riding a bike down from Livingstonia
27 - Zen burrowing towards Fletcher
28 - My Christmas present, a blow gun
29 - Reading
30 - Walking Fletch
31 - New Year Countdown

Library Update (before vacation)

I wanted to post one more library update before I left on vacation.  The contractor thinks the library will be finished by the time I get back at the end of February.

Library Walls

We have the starts of a building. The walls are going up, there are door and window frames, and the workers are showing no signs of slowing down.

Chopping Money

So I didn't chop my money, but I chopped a lot of y'all's money today. 

I spend most of that giant block of cash today as we bought all the construction materials for the library.  That block is mk1,300,000 and just under mk300,000 is left. If your curious on the costs breakdown, I've updated the budget on the Thunduti CDSS Library Project page with actual costs. 

Basically, I got to spend over mk1,000,000, or 1,000 mk1,000 bills.