Well I reckon this is it. Right now, it’s 5:30AM. I’m in the sitting room warming up next to a blazing fire with my cup of Mzuzu coffee. The jeans I hope to wear to Nashville are laid out in front of the fire drying. In the distance I can hear the morning rooster roll [...]
Posts Tagged ‘family’
Ndapita
Posted in culture, family, Mission, tagged family, Friends, God, Goodbye, Malawi, Tears on July 12, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Ch-English
Posted in culture, family, tagged chichewa, culture, english, family, Language, Malawi on February 19, 2011 | 5 Comments »
When Ciona visited last fall we were standing in the kitchen chatting and she said, “Kara, you don’t have to use your Chichewa English with me.” I laughed. We have, indeed, changed our English into different rhythms, different inflection, and incorporated Malawian colloquialisms in order to be better understood. We tend to leave off prepositions… [...]
