HiGhLiGhTs!!

With 20 days remaining with no particular order, my top highlights from my journey here in Malawi: 

• Hearing P-square(look them up) from my bed, in my net, down the hall from Tinashe Saka’s room
• Laughing everyday!! Seriously, I think I’m a happier person, since I laugh everyday, thanks to friends, like Tinashe, Za, Movuti, Willie, John, Arthur, Isaac, Mwai, Malason, Mike, Maclean, Michael, Sarah, Rike, Clara and my kids
• Walking or riding a bike to get around! Also, the custom of using Minibuses!
• Speaking confidently in another language and getting respect for it.
• Eating amazingly tasting dinners especially when the power has gone out
• The Sunsets here in the Warm Heart Of Africa
• Teaching English, at the same time as discovering a HUGE passion of mine!
• Visiting families and villages to our youth. Today, we came with openness, and left with sugarcane, sweet potatoes, and groundnuts.
• Learning the fruits of the spirit, through the lives of the humble hearted people here.
• Being bolder than ever before! Making new friends with fellow volunteers!
• Dancing with “Uncle Bruce” and the Rise Malawi staff!! (video to share)
• Spontaneously meeting the German Ambassadors Family, and spending time at the house with his family, all on his birthday! Bonus, meeting Emma, the coolest 7 year old; daughter to the American Ambassador.
• Lake Malawi, what a sight!
• Interacting with monkeys without a cage!
• With slower paced life, I have been able to really rediscover myself,
• A birthday party in the dark, with all my favorite foods cooked with love over charcoal stove inside, due to the intense rain; not to mention the bike taxi’s that got us to the destination without us falling in puddles and a birthday surprise that can not just change my life, but almost 100!
• Growing deeper with God as well as friends
• Experiencing a major political change, due to the death of a president. Now the 1st woman president; my first experience with such kind of event.
• Learning to appreciate the finer things in life