Friday, June 6, 2008

The Council of Elders

Yesterday I had another fun conversation with the lunchtime group. There's actually a name for it: the "Council of Elders". They discuss politics, culture, faith, anything that comes up. I mentioned in my last post how much I look forward to it every day, and I'll miss it a great deal I'm sure once I go to Salima. I recorded it yesterday so I uploaded some clips from the conversations. The participants recorded here are Zik, Gibson, Aubry and myself. Atisunge was there too, but not very talkative. Stella had already come and gone. Here are two bits:

Politics in Malawi - Zik takes the helm of discussing the strangeness of political process in Malawi and vents a bit about how odd it is that Europe seems to know all of the data about the country, but the politicians and leaders do not.

http://www.wikiupload.com/comment.php?id=37530

Rastas - Bob Marley was not allowed into Malawi. Frank opinions about the vain, Godless, youth corrupting, vegetarian, "chamba"-smoking Rastas.

http://www.wikiupload.com/comment.php?id=37533

See you all later! I promise I'll have more pictures up soon.

2 comments:

ashley elizabeth said...

alex, it's really good to hear you laugh. i hope your travels to your village go safely!

Unknown said...

alex, we haven't been able to get the audio. Any suggestions? We pray your move is going well.
love