Mumbling, Stumbling & Humbling

You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get nsima and beans! The miomba forest gave me scars; the sub-Saharan sun gave me wrinkles; the Tumbuka people gave me laugh lines, and the borehole water stained my teeth. I enjoyed it all – and the nsima and beans – and then ordered some more! For two years, I lived in rural Malawi as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Now, I live in the country’s capital working as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer continuing my work in the environment sector and seeing Malawi through green eyes.

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