Backlog of Blogs

Once again we have a significant number of blogs accumulating in our notebook. We'll try to get them posted when Luc is in Namaacha, near Maputo, helping with the new volunteer's Pre Service Training next week. We have a new office there with a permanent internet connection. Here in site electricity has become even more scarce with ESCOM, the Malawian utility we depend on in the border area, cutting power twice a week for the past month, leaving us in the dark on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Today is Thursday and we still don't have electricity. Some people have attributed the blackout to supernatural forces, claiming a ghost visited our neighborhood last night, but given the precarious state of our electric grid infrastructure, there is surely a more material explanation. Vodacom, our cell phone provider, was also out all last week, leaving us cutoff from the world and without any way to connect to the internet. We've been busy finnishing up the last
trimester this week, so we've had plenty of grading and preparations for national exams to keep up busy.