Monthly Archive for July, 2007

At 6:10am I was at Dyeratu deport waiting for the minibus from Nchalo to lift me to Blantyre for my studies. I was arriving at 8:12am and started learning up to 1:00pm. After classes I was going to the deport and on the way I met my friend Augustine Mkamwa whom I missed since I left Chikwawa Secondary School in 1997.

I just heard a call from inside the minibus. I didn’t recognize him and he got off. He hugged me, but coldly I responded. He then reminded me that we were once together at Chikwawa Secondary School. And I hugged him too for I identified him. We had one hour flashbacking at the deport where I was waiting for the lifts. He was so surprising that I am still continuing with my studies.

I told him that I decided to do rural community and development, diploma 1 for my personal better understanding of the typical impoverished community members. And if possibly finding the strategies for the social and economic development.

I had rice porridge as breakfast, before leaving for the work some women gathered at a house where some supervisors for a certain organization were basing. These women were temporarily employed by that organization to maintain the road that links two primary schools. The responsible supervisors were failing to pay these women. They agreed to take matter to the District commissioner for assistance.

The main interest of the funding organization for that road to be reconstructed was to employ women as part of empowering and rehabilitating them to have access to their community basic needs

It was cloudy, cold and showering morning, I left for the work. On the way around 6:48am I met a woman who was fetching firewood.

She asked me to assist her to take her bundle of firewood that was closer to a big snake. That snake was failing even to move because its abdomen was full of something as its prey.

I did not attend the church service because I had a two-day continuous cough, and I was taking cough-rid medicine.

It was cold and showering evening then I went to bed early. I woke up at 11:21night because the rats inside my house were disturbing me.

I took only potato as a break fast without tea because nearest shops had no sugar. I left around 6:35pm for the work.

I wanted to go to Blantyre to submit passport photos and a certificate photocopy to my school for the exams processing, but I failed because I went to attend a funeral at Kapasule Village, where one of the phase one farmers’ grandson passed away.

Around 8:00am Andy of Twin Trading and Doreen arrived at Kasinthula offices and they had discussion with the General manager up to late noon hours.