Author: David Berger
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Quick Update March!
Good morning friends! I’m once again a few weeks behind on my posts. I wrote up a few quick updates last time, but I’m afraid I’ve just been too immersed in my community to find time to write and reflect on these last few weeks. I’ve been able to find a moment of peace and…
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An evening home
Howdy folks, Well, after a quick jaunt over to Mansa, I’m back at my hut and enjoying a quiet rain filled night, accompanied by my Goal Zero Rockout speakers, my new IPod (my last one was stolen unfortunately) and Jo Berger’s original tunes. It’s fantastic to have my mothers voice and music as comfort in…
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HIV, Stigma, Fear, and a personal experience.
In my last post I helped you all catch up with some of the more recent, and quite painful events. I focused in on a tragic example from this past week, and I mentioned a little about teaching methods, stigma regarding HIV, and fear. It’s important to note that my last post was focused in…
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A tragic end to January –
Good afternoon folks, I have been trying to decide how to write this post for a long while now, and I can honestly say that it has been a long time coming, but is unfortunately a dark and difficult topic at best. I think it is fair to start with recent events, which have been…
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REPOST: Sundays free write: a precipice of kinetic decisions
This is, as the title implies, Sunday’s free write. I have this interminable feeling of hunger and anxiety today. Yesterday marked the funeral of the third community member this week, and as the weather continues to shift into its rainy season pattern, malaria cases will rise, coupled with poorer nutrition due to hunger season. So…
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Channukah, Christmas and New Years
Christmas and New Years: Well, Channukah, Christmas and New Years this year were a hoot! I built a Menorah out of bamboo, and celebrated Channukah in my village, in my hut – then headed in to the provincial house to celebrate Christmas with my fellow volunteers. We danced, we ate, we had a white elephant…
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Catching up
It’s been a while! Almost the entire month of December slipped by since I last had a chance to write. And bow january is almost past as well. It’s important to note that a lot has happened in the last months, including a village Hannukah, a social Christmas with friends and a wonderful new year!…
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The month of November
It’s time for me to be writing again, Sorry all for the delay, it’s been a little while since I had a chance to sit down and type up what’s going on in my life… well type up is a bit of a misnomer, since it’s more like extended texting. Anyway, where did we leave…
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Idle writing
Somedays, you just write. It’s an honest sentiment. Sometimes days come along and inspire an internal turmoil and call to expression that drive you to madly tap out these wonderful little symbols and turn thoughts, emotions, and the intangible inner workings of our minds and hearts into words. Words clump together and link to form…
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Leaving Malawi: the Adventure home
It was with heavy heart and anxious thoughts that we lay down to sleep on our last night in Ruarwe. We knew that our vacation was coming to an end, and that despite a serious fuel shortage, tomorrow we’d be on the road home. A dangerous, uncomfortable and brutally long series of interchanges that could…