The final countdown..

I am really sorry for the lack of entries in my blog. After Xmas, we
were starting the academic year, and since then, everything has been
frantic.

Many things have happened since our holiday in Likoma Island. At the
begining of the year, I organised a theater show to talk to the
students about their sexual relatioships and the risk of contracting
HIV during their time here at the college. It sounds weird, but it was
a total sucess, the plays that talked about a couple that went for VCT
(HIV test ) or a whole family that contracts HIV because the sons and
the father were sleeping with the cleaner.. I had funding to do the
show so it was free for students and members of staff, and we had a
great time. There are some pictures in my flickr site..

That was only the beginning. The day before starting the classes we
were told that the number of students in Premed (the course before
starting medicine) was going to be even larger because the lab
technician students would also join the course. 105 students while
last year they were 60. No extra labs or classrooms yet. We are doing
the labs in two turns without time to have lunch or a break. Madness!!

And then in the middle of all this my friends from Spain arrived! it
was great, I had to push my lectures to get a couple of long week ends
free, and we went to all the nice places of the south: The lake,
Mulanje y Liwonde. They ony just left, and I was dead by the end, but
totally worth it..

If all this madness was not enough, I have started a blog in Spanish,
in the local newspaper of my town in Spain. The address is http://blogs.larioja.com/antuan-en-malawi/posts
. Is a different blog, not really to tell the things that happen to
me, but to talk about Malawi, my work here, raise awareness.. I hope
that my friends and family there will read it and won't ask me too
many questions when I come back. I haven't been to Spain in almost 2
years and I'll come back straight for the wedding of my sister, so
i'll see all my family again at the same time.. A bit too much for me.
So the date is set, I should be in Spain the 2nd of May.. The final
countdown is almost starting. Don't ask me what is next, I am looking
for jobs but nothing has come out yet..