Author Archives: Sasha Wallace
Island Life Again
After 40 hours of nearly sleepless travel from Madrid airport, to Rome (were a man from Costa Rica told us about his beautiful island), to Addis Ababa, and finally to Lilongwe. Along the way, border agents and the person giving out tickets in Europe both asked… “Lilongwe? Where the hell is that?”. Our trusted Malawian …
Europe part 2
We packed up our stuff and set off to meet up with Sasha’s family. After a reunion in a hotel lobby, we set out on beautiful drive through the Greek country side. After many narrow roads and steep cliffs with leaves changing color, we made it to the small town of Olympia. We visited the …
Family +1 in GREECE
European Whirlwind
The fortnight began in a very warm Malawi, and has ended sitting in a rainy and fortified Athens apartment. Two weeks ago, we had no idea we would be here. And yet, here we are! We spent the last days in Malawi making a study sheet for our students and taking individual photos for the …
Rain, bugs, and mental illness
The next morning, we awoke early to a sudden FWUMP of rain. We both jumped up and closed all the windows and put on our raincoats. We explored the new landscape being made in the roads, and admired the durability of the missionaries creations. Most towns and places in Malawi do not have drainage- you …
Christian and Cheese
CHRISTIAN AND CHEESE ARRIVE We finish our morning classes and almost ran to the airport. We arrive at the scheduled time, then sit inside playing cards. The plane arrives only 40 minutes late. Our last contact with them had been when they had landed in Paris a few days ago. They had spent a day …
Millionaires and Crocodiles
These past 3 week have been very fast-paced, which is out of the norm for us and so these posts will come all at once. We met Andrew, the crazy millionaire. He invited us and Cassidy to dinner, while we waited for her electrician boyfriend to arrive and fix the solar power. We happily drove …
Week of Hallows Week of Heartbreak
The Chemistry and Physics teacher Justice, that has patiently helped us pronounce so many words and understand so many cultural oddities, left to go back to school this week. It was also another teachers birthday this week (On Halloween; She was very surprised I remembered, as she told me a month ago), and so we …
Kittens!
This week was a bit of a long week with exams, spiders that are not spiders, kittens, and So. Much. Heat. We went to watch a football match Sunday evening, and the whole town turned out. All the men who were too busy to make it to church arrived at the game! This time all …
Ticket to Anywhere 