some stories about work...

still trying to upload pictures in the blog without sucess. you can visit my flickr page, where you can see a few pics.
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It's dead calm here at the college of medicine. Only two weeks left of this term and I am not going to start teaching until the next semester. I am supposed to teach chemistry in the premed(a crash course before 1st year of medicine) so I'm looking at the program and starting to prepare some of the lectures. The teaching lab is so bad organised, they have lots of glassware but it's just stuck in boxes in a room. There is a huge need of chemicals, in part because it takes ages to receive them, in part for lack of funding...

I may also help my Mike Berry (my neighbour) with some of the biochemistry or chemistry courses. He is the head of pharmacology and he's having problems to employ staff for his courses. The system is too strict and he can only employ malawians or people that has an Msc. Very few persons can fullfil the conditions and even less persons would come to work here since salaries are too low.. If he cannot employ any lecturers before the end of the year the course is going to colapse. So sad but the lack of staff is huge at the university or the hospitals of Malawi. I don't want to be too negative, its great to be here, but sometimes the situation is so overwhelming..