Jellybeans…I started this blog to document my trip to Malawi. For me, the journey began when the nurse at the Vaccination clinic here in Perth handed me a jellybean after administering several booster ‘third world country disease’ shots in my upper arm. Im not sure who decided that a jellybean makes the needle jab and ensuing dead arm tolerable… but thanks to them, my life has been punctuated with jellybeans. Two –cholera, four, eight - Hepatitis, eleven -when all the girls in year seven had to get the measles mumps and rubella shots, thirteen, twenty – twinrix, rabies and japanese encephalitis before my first trip back to Indonesia as an adult, twenty-two – (paid for by UWA) to cover their proverbials before I went on a month long field trip to East Timor. Now I’m twenty-five about to embark on a new phase of life. A life changing adventure to Malawi – with all the protection modern medicine has to offer.
Do all journeys have detours? I guess if the goal and path are not set in stone there will inevitably be detours. I thought I would apply, get accepted, get my shots (see above), pack, and fly to Malawi. Instead, the departure date was set for 9 months down the track so I had time to raise the finances I need live for the next two years. First detour involved moving house.
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