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How Do You Live: Part II

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So last year in October I posted a blog answering 10 different questions about how I live my life in Malawi specifically relating to my life in the village in Balaka. If you want to read that blog you can go here: http://peacecorpsmalawi2013.blogspot.com/2014/10/how-do-you-10-q.html. But now as you've read, my life has changed a little bit. And to highlight the great and beautiful diversity that is Malawi, I wanted to post a part 2 to this blog to answer these questions again. I now live in the capital city of Malawi called Lilongwe. While it's not a huge city compared to Nairobi or Lusaka, it's still a capital city no less. So here is how I live now: 1. Where do you get water? - From the tap! Yes, I have a sink in the kitchen, toilets and sinks in all the bedrooms and even an outside tap for watering the grass, doing laundry, etc. I pay my bill monthly to the Lilongwe Water Board for consumption which never exceeds about $3 a month. While there are still those random...