"The Village"
Sometimes when you live for so long and so far from those you love, you forget that your everyday life happenings, doings and activities are not always known. And while you think you might have adequately explained, there are still many questions. Maybe I haven’t done well explaining. Maybe I don’t know where to start sometimes so I end up not sharing- hence the lag in the blog update. But this is an attempt. First- “the village.” What does it mean when I talk about that? Well, a few things, but to me, “the village” with no qualifier always means I’m in the place where I spent two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV). This is a place located in the Southern Region of Malawi in a district known as Balaka divided further into Traditional Authorities (TAs) and then into small, scattered little villages which range in size. The health centre I worked at, Nandumbo Health Centre, is a part of Nandumbo village and my house which was less than 1km from the health centre was in Tambala vill...