"You're so excited and ready to get started. I'm going to punch you."
These were Alyssa's words for me at three in morning earlier today, when I was getting more and more stoked up for being in Malawi and the work that we'll do. She had to remind me that even though the rooster is crowing, day time might still be several hours away, and I realized that . I was sitting in the darkness of our friends' lovely house in Lilongwe, thinking about all of ways I was ready to get started: It's avocado season! Maybe I'll work with the Malawian Union of the blind! Listen to all of those different kinds of birds!
This over exuberance is familiar to me (and all of the folks that traveled with me when I first joined Peace Corps), but I know that Malawi has the antidote: lots of calm, slow days, and many interesting things to look at, think about, and listen to. Already, I've been so happy to see kids pushing wheels down the dusty back-roads, chat with my friends while idly watching the many varieties of birds, and talk with Alyssa about all of the ways we're surprised and what we're each looking forward to. She does prefer those conversations to take place during the daytime, though.
These were Alyssa's words for me at three in morning earlier today, when I was getting more and more stoked up for being in Malawi and the work that we'll do. She had to remind me that even though the rooster is crowing, day time might still be several hours away, and I realized that . I was sitting in the darkness of our friends' lovely house in Lilongwe, thinking about all of ways I was ready to get started: It's avocado season! Maybe I'll work with the Malawian Union of the blind! Listen to all of those different kinds of birds!
This over exuberance is familiar to me (and all of the folks that traveled with me when I first joined Peace Corps), but I know that Malawi has the antidote: lots of calm, slow days, and many interesting things to look at, think about, and listen to. Already, I've been so happy to see kids pushing wheels down the dusty back-roads, chat with my friends while idly watching the many varieties of birds, and talk with Alyssa about all of the ways we're surprised and what we're each looking forward to. She does prefer those conversations to take place during the daytime, though.
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