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TrygveTv: December 2014
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Sunday, December 14, 2014. Smiling is like breathing to us". Suggested explanation on why Malawians smile so much. So these are some of the smiles of my year in Malawi. Real smiles, not "smile to the camera"-smiles. I think I have seen millions of them the last year, and of course the best smiles have never been captured on camera. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Kumudzi Kuwale on FB. Thomas og Cecilie i Malawi. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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TrygveTv: Random encounters
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Monday, February 16, 2015. Is this what we lost with the invention of cities, the invention of roads, cars and escalators? The invention of high-rise buildings, the invention of TVs, cellphones, sunglasses and computers? The invention of property, borders, money, weapons, universities, hospitals, books and courts? What have we gained, and what have we lost? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Kumudzi Kuwale on FB. Thomas og Cecilie i Malawi. All the last times. My little devil and my little angel.
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TrygveTv: How was it in Malawi?
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Friday, July 17, 2015. How was it in Malawi? That is the question. The question I receive every time I talk to someone I haven’t seen since before I went to Malawi early in 2014. The question to which people seem to know the answer better than me, even before I answer. Then, to my big surprise in the beginning, my friend in the commonest version of this conversation gives me the contrary: “Well, it wasn’t really that nice, was it? It wasn’t so nice all the time, was it, really? Kumudzi Kuwale on FB.
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TrygveTv: May 17, 2014. Lilongwe, Malawi
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Sunday, May 17, 2015. May 17, 2014. Lilongwe, Malawi. One year ago I had a revelation: Celebration of May 17, the Norwegian Constitutional Day, is much more fun when you are not in Norway. To my surprise I discovered that they are much better at celebrating this day in Malawi than in Norway. Celebrating outside of Norway brings in a dimension that makes the regular hot dog taste better, not to speak of the vafler, lefse and smoked salmon. Raising the flag in the morning when its already 25 degrees C.
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TrygveTv: January 2015
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Sunday, January 18, 2015. 2014 in review - Nkhotakota. Happy green new year. The year 2014 started off nicely with plentiful and quite stable rain. Everything was nice and muddy, the grass was green, the trees were happy and the maize and rice was thriving in the fields. I arrived in January with my friend Sille, taking over for Eva and Thomas. For most people in Nkhotakota that didn't really matter, I guess they just thought that the white guys had changed their hairstyle. Rice fields in Nkhotakota.
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TrygveTv: July 2014
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Saturday, July 12, 2014. Below is a video I took last weekend while driving through Dwangwa, a town some 50 km north of Nkhotakota. That gives an impression of how it can be. Thursday, July 10, 2014. How to power your offgrid home in Malawi. Performance of a few selected panel sizes and brands available in Malawi. But since almost no-one ever bother to measure the capacity of a battery, people are beeing ripped off every day like this. It seems that products that have failed quality control or something ...
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TrygveTv: May 2014
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014. This morning I went with my friend James to have a look at the voting at a school nearby. The elections are coming along quietly, apart from a few impatient voters starting riots in the larger cities due to delays in opeing the voting offices. It will be very interesting to see the results coming up the next few days. Who will be the winner of the “big presidential erection”? As they say here, with the Bantu impediment of distinguishing “R” and “L”. A local woman giving her vote.
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TrygveTv: April 2014
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Sunday, April 27, 2014. Pepani means "I'm sorry" in Chichewa, and it is used to express sympathy with you when something is not working out. It is very commonly used. Delivering my car to the workshop for changing the ignition plugs. The plug wires have melted into the engine due to a prior overheating. Half of the engine has to go out. When opening the engine it looks like someone has cooked porridge and burned it inside. It has to be cleaned. The whole operation will take several days. I scream and sho...
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TrygveTv: June 2014
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Saturday, June 14, 2014. Last weekend I had the interesting experience of meeting a group of the volunteers of the American Peace Corps who work with environmental issues in Malawi. One of them was especially outspoken, and I had an inspiring conversation with him. For the sake of the story let's give him a random American name, let's call him "Bob". Here is a summary of the conversation:. Bob": I don't like to take the word "rape" in my mouth, but some times you have to. Trygve: What do you mean? Trygve...
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TrygveTv: March 2015
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Friday, March 20, 2015. The pursuit of happiness and the perfect life. Now that I am back from 14 months in Malawi, I often ask myself what I have brought back. What is it that will stick with me, what will I always remember? Nkhotakota, Malawi - one of the poorest regions of one of the poorest countries in the world, at least in monetary terms. But still – what does that really mean for happiness? Does that make them miserable and unhappy? I would say no. Does it make you happy? I would say no. No time ...
