A week in my Life - Tuesday

Thankfully today was a little more orderly than yesterday. Started the day with a lovely time of reading, thinking and praying through Deuteronomy 28-30 in preparation for taking on Micah-the next book in my 'read through the Bible' quest. :)

Whilst munching my porridge I managed to figure out how to download the GPS waypoints myself (very proud) and sent them off to a kind friend to be made into a 'proper' map- then headed into work and spent the morning drafting a funding proposal for the farm (anyone got some spare cash they'd like to see go to a good cause?!) and chatting with a colleague.

Its good having another chick to swap stories and commiserate with. The current 'issue' for me is pay rates. no, not mine :) but another whitey would like to take on my language helper but apparently isn't willing to pay what Im paying- and it's partly my problem because I upped her pay rate from the previous employer -who's doing the advising...so it's all a bit messy. Yes, Im paying more for a few hours than some people get in a day -but just because the economy here doesn't work doesn't mean I have to be stingy. I decided to base what I pay on what it actually costs to live rather than the 'standard' wage. The standard day wage for unskilled labour could currently buy you 1 kg of rice and 2 tomatoes, or 7 eggs- its not even enough for a carton of milk!!! grrr Im SO glad Ive only got 1 persons pay to worry about!

I had salad for lunch- a short lived treat after a visit to the markets in Blantyre on the weekend. lettuce, broccoli mmm, answered a few emails then a short nap :) and back to work to type out a government brochure on how to make compost manure. The brochure was in Chichewa, so I asked a colleague to translate it into ChiYawo... for me to type, format and print for the Farmer Trainings happening...soon. By about 4pm my office felt like a sauna and the girl in the office behind me was taking a nap, so I knocked off early and went and had a cuppa tea with another colleague of mine :) we talked about...how we've changed and what it'll be like to go back to Australia, relationships, life...girl talk :)

Tonight I cooked chambo for dinner- its Lake Malawi's prime fresh water fish- and the best tasting fish ever I think it's safe to say! and, Ive spent the rest of the evening finishing off the documents I was working on today and printing them for tomorrow. Its all one big party here (yawn) g'nite