Catch-up post

First off,
Pepani!!! I am so very sorry for the delay in updates. I have many excuses, most of which are pretty valid, but...I'll spare you a lot of them. 

Let's just say 1. I haven't really had a whole lot to say lately, 2. Our generator has been broken, so power outages weren't fixable for the past 3 weeks or so, and 3. I really have been pretty stinkin busy!

I started writing an update a week or so ago, but the power went out in the middle of it and I never got back to finish it. Again, pepani! So sorry! But I will go ahead and post what I did get written, just so you can see a little bit of what was going on. Look under this post for that one. 

So, I'm not gonna go back and tell you a whole lot about the past month- you can refer to Aly's blog and the Kysers' blog for some things. Our lives aren't all that different, really.
The Inter-house swim gala was pretty insane. I screamed a lot and wore lots of green (my house color...think Harry Potter, except...not) and in the end Nyika (my house) won! Our students swam fast and had tons of spirit and I was incredibly proud of them. They're troopers. It was a LONG day.

Those were the biggest events- other than that, things were pretty normal around here. Time flowed steadily on, days passed, and I consistently forgot to blog. Eish!  We watched some more ABC basketball, got into volleyball, and continued getting to know our friends and made some new ones too!

All that to say, we successfully survived our first semester of teaching! Mostly...technically we have two weeks in the semester when we go back. But you get the point! I made it! I lived an entire semester as a junior high/highschool English teacher in Malawi! The fuel queues get longer every day, the power is out more and more often, the economy is worsening, shortages of other random things are increasing, the ants never go away, and I am simply learning to live in this beautiful place.

Or as Switchfoot would say- learning to breathe.